LONDON (APP) – London Heathrow Airport said it was “fully operational” on Saturday, after another Almost the day’s closure The electricity substation flared from the fire. But thousands of passengers were trapped, and airlines warned that severe obstacles would continue for a few days as they entered the aircraft and crews to move and transport passengers to their destination.
Friday’s travel exchange raised concerns about the ability to counter British disasters or fight attacks on critical infrastructure. Traumatic passenger, angry airlines and related politicians all Want answers About how a seemingly accidental fire can occur Close Europe’s busiest air center.
“This is a great embarrassment for the Heathrow Airport. It is a great embarrassment for the country that a substitute can have such a devastating effect in a substitute,” a Labor Party politician who campaigned to improve flexibility.
“There are hundreds of additional allies in our terminals and we have added flights to today’s schedule to facilitate an additional 10,000 passengers,” Heathrow said. He advised passengers to examine their airline before going to the airport.
Heathrow’s largest airline, British Airways, said it expected about 85 % of its 600 scheduled flights to the airport on Saturday. It states that “after such an important event, it is extremely complicated to recover our size operation.”
While many passengers succeeded in resuming the journey, the other remained in the organs.
Laura Frti from Kansas City was on leave with her family in Ireland when she found out that her father had died. She was caught in Heathrow after being canceled at the last minute of a BA flight to Chicago on Saturday.
“I am very disappointed,” he said. “This was my first big holiday with my children since my husband’s death, and … now. So I just want to go home.”
More than 1,300 flights were canceled on Friday, 2 miles (3.2 km) in more than 60,000 properties, and more than 60,000 properties from the airport, and over 60,000 properties, and more than 1,300 flights were canceled on Friday, and about 200,000 flights were canceled on Friday.
The explosion and fire show a wider problem
Residents in west London heard the sound of a major explosion and then watching the clouds of fireball and smoke when such a substation was set on fire. After seven hours the fire was extinguished, but the airport was closed for about 18 18. A handful of flights departed and landed late on Friday.
Police said they did not consider the fire suspicious, and the London Fire Brigade said that its investigation would be focused on power distribution equipment in the substation.
Nevertheless, the major impact of the left -handed officials faces questions about the UK’s cracking infrastructure. The government acknowledged that the authorities had questions to answer and said that a strict investigation needed to ensure that “this barrier is not meant again.”
The airport closure indicates a wider problem with the UK economy and infrastructure, Haris said.
“In the last 40, 50 years, we have tried to make services more efficient,” he said. “We have eliminated the waste, we have made the process easier. We have moved to the economy of a kind of ‘only time’.
“There is a factor where you have to make sure you are available for ‘only in the case’. You have to make plans for the wrong things.
Heathrow’s chief executive Thomas Wold Bai said he was “proud” the airport and the airline staff responded.
He told the BBC, “Remember, the situation was not created at Heathrow Airport.” “The airport didn’t stop for the day. We closed for hours.”
One of the busiest airports
He said that Heathrow’s backup power supply, which was designed for an emergency, worked as expected, but it was not enough to operate the entire airport, which uses more and more energy like a small city.
“Likewise, most airports work,” Wold Bai said, who insisted that “the same will happen in other airports”.
Heathrow is one of the The busiest airports of the world For international travel, and last year 83.9 million passengers.
Friday’s disruption was the most serious since 2010 Iceland’s Aujjaljocol volcano burstWhich closed Europe’s airspace for days.
When Friday’s closure was announced, about 120 120 flight passengers were in the air and found themselves landing in different cities, and even different countries.
Mark Dehrtei and his wife were halfway across the Atlantic when the influential map demonstrated its flight from New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport to Heathrow.
“I was like this, you were joking,” said Dhariti before the pilot told passengers that they were going back to New York.
Duriti “ordinary England – has not received any backup plans to do something like this. There is no emergency plan.”
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The Associated Press journalist at Heathrow Airport participated in the report.
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