Heathrow Airport in London was reopened on Saturday after a Electrical interruption in one of the Busiest airports in the world The day before caused widespread chaos and cancellations.
A post at the airport Website On Saturday he said that « flights have been resumed in Heathrow and we are open and completely operational. The airport teams continue to do their best to support passengers affected by yesterday’s interruption in a substance of power out of the air. »
The airport also said in a statement that « we have hundreds of additional colleagues in the hands of our terminals and we have added flights to today’s programming to facilitate additional 10,000 passengers traveling through the airport. »
On Friday, a fire in a electric substation reduced power at the airport for most of the day. The interruption affected more than 1,300 flights to Heathrow and disrupted travel for more than 200,000 passengers. The interruption also reduced the power to more than 16,000 homes in the area.
The waving effect of the closed transport center for more than 16 hours was immediate. Around a million Americans travel through Heathrow each month.
« The pilot turned on and said that some of us may have realized that the plane was turning, not to alarm, but London Heathrow closed due to a fire, » said Justin Mclane, who flew from Boston.
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In the meantime, the pressure was mounted on the air companies and Heathrow to take care of the passengers.
« Contingencies of certain sizes cannot protect us of 100%, and this is one of them, » said Thomas Woldbye, CEO of Heathrow. « This has been an important incident. I mean, anyone who hurts, this is as big as it is for our airport and we really return quite fast. »
While some travelers and officials are calling for a fire investigation, police say there are no early signs of dirty play. Given the impact of the fire on the National Infrastructure, police against terrorism leads the investigation.
It Latest numbers From the travel data provider OAG Show Heathrow is the fifth most busy airport in the world this month. By the beginning of this year, reported Its more busy January, at the service of more than 6.3 million passengers and with an average of more than 200,000 passengers a day. More than 1.2 million of these passengers traveled between the United Kingdom and the United States
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