Nevertheless, it is advisable to find out more from his airline before driving to the airport, it said there. As early as Friday evening, individual aircraft rolled back to the runway.
However, the national airline British Airways expects it to handle only about 85 percent of its scheduled flights on Saturday. However, delays can be expected until the situation normalized. According to its own statements, the British Ministry of Transport had temporarily lifted its restrictions on night flights in order to reduce the overload of the airport.
The cause of the fire is still unclear
“Something like that has never happened before,” said airport leader Woldbye hours after the serious fire in a substation on Friday night, which also supplies the airport. Why the fire that paralyzed the airport for hours broke out is still unclear. Transport Minister Heidi Alexander said there are currently no signs of sabotage. The police’s anti-terrorist investigators nevertheless examined the matter because the fire was raged near a “critical part of the national infrastructure”.
The CEO of the airport emphasized that it was an incident with significant effects. “It’s not a small fire,” said the airport leader. The power failure can be compared to that of a medium -sized city. The backup systems that are supposed to secure emergency landings and evacuations would have worked as planned. However, they are “not interpreted to operate the entire airport,” said Woldbye.
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Hundreds of thousands of passengers affected
How big the effects are is not yet clear. The British news agency PA reported more than 200,000 passengers. The costs for the airport and the airlines were in the double -digit million range, an expert told the Sky News station. In Germany, around 9,000 affected passengers were expected that could not fly due to the power failure in Heathrow.
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