Heathrow airport in London reopened on Saturday after a power failure to one of most frequented airports in the world The day before caused chaos and generalized cancellations.
A message at the airport website According to Saturday, “thefts resumed in Heathrow, and we are open and fully operational. The airport teams continue to do everything they can to support the passengers affected by yesterday in an electrical by airport”.
The airport also said in a statement that “we have hundreds of additional colleagues at hand in our terminals and that we have added flights to today’s calendar to facilitate 10,000 additional passengers in the airport”.
Friday, a fire in an electric sub-station cut the power at the airport for most of the day. The failure affected more than 1,300 flights to and from Heathrow and disrupted travel for more than 200,000 passengers. The failure has also reduced power to more than 16,000 houses in the region.
The training effect of the closed transport center for more than 16 hours was immediate. About 1 million Americans travel through Heathrow each month.
“The pilot came and said that some of us may have noticed that the plane turned around, not to be alarmed, but London Heathrow was closed due to a fire,” said Justin McLane, who stole from Boston.
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Meanwhile, the pressure is mounted on airlines and Heathrow to take care of passengers.
“Sub-impulsion of certain sizes, we cannot protect ourselves 100%, and that is one of them,” said Thomas Woldbye, Managing Director of Heathrow. “It was a major incident. I mean, unless anyone is injured, it is as big as for our airport and we come back fairly quickly.”
While some travelers and civil servants call for an investigation into the fire, the police say that there is no early indication of disloyal game. Given the significant impact that the fire has had on national infrastructure, the terrorism fighting police are conducting the investigation.
THE Last numbers From the travel data supplier, OAG Aviation Show Heathrow is the fifth busiest airport in the world this month. Earlier this year, He reported Its busiest January ever recorded, serving more than 6.3 million passengers and on average more than 200,000 passengers per day. Over 1.2 million of these passengers have traveled between the United Kingdom and the United States
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