The Heathrow Airport of London is coming back today (22.03.2025) in full operation, one day after fire In a nearby substation of the electricity grid that cut the power on its premises and resulted in the closure of Europe’s largest air hub and causing chaos in the air internationally.
Some flights to Heathros Airport took place on Friday night (21.03.2025) but the suspension of operation most of the day of the airport that serves the fifth highest number of passengers in the world It resulted in thousands of passengers facing problems, with many looking for rooms in hotels or locations on other flights.
Airport staff were trying to provide assistance to passengers affected by the suspension, a spokesman for Heathrow said by e -mail.
“We had hundreds of additional colleagues available to our terminals and we added flights to today’s program to We facilitate an additional 10,000 passengers traveling through the airport, “the spokesman explained.
Traveling players in front of the prospect of tens of millions of £ £ £ and a possible dispute over who will pay the bill, asked questions about how critical infrastructures were able to collapse without spare systems.
‘It is a clear failure to design the airport“, Said Willy Wals, head of the International Air Transport Association (IATA).
The airport was scheduled to handle 1,351 flights yesterday, with 291,000 passengers, but aircraft were diverted to other British and Europe airports, while many long -distance flights returned to their departure.
Air transport experts noticed that the last time European airports had problems on such a large scale was in 2010 when Due to the volcanic ash from Iceland about 100,000 flights were taken to territorye.
They also warned that some passengers forced to land in Europe may have been forced to stay at the transit premises as they do not have the necessary documents to get out of the airport.
Police have announced, after an initial assessment, that authorities do not handle the incident in the electricity substation as something suspicious, although investigations are continuing.