London Heathrow Airport said that on Saturday he was “completely operative” after granted Daily closure caused by electric firefight. But airlines warned that a serious disorder would take days while trying to move planes and crews and passengers to bring to their destinations.
The airport chief said he was proud of Heathrow’s response to the incident. But unpleasant passengers, angry airplanes and worried politicians sought answers about the seemingly accidental fire could extinguish the most prominent air center in Europe.
“We have hundreds of additional colleagues in our terminals and added flights to today’s schedule to facilitate an additional 10,000 passengers traveling through the airport,” Heathrow said in a statement, advising passengers to check with his airplane before leaving for the airport.
British Airways, Heathrow’s largest airline, said she expects to perform about 85 percent of 600 flights at the airport on Saturday. It said “the recovery of surgery of our size after such a significant incident is extremely complex.”
More than 1,300 flights were canceled, and about 200,000 people stranded on Friday after a fire overnight in the 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) of the airport distance, crossed the electricity in Heathrow and more than 60,000 real estate.
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Western London residents described that they had heard a large explosion and then saw a fiery ball and smoke clouds when the flame broke through the substation. The fire was brought under control after seven hours, but the airport was closed for almost 18 years. Several flights flew and landed late on Friday.
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Police said the fire did not consider the fire suspicious, and the London fire brigade said his investigation would focus on the electricity distribution equipment in the substation.
However, the huge impact of fires left authorities with criticism that the British creaking infrastructure was poorly prepared to deal with disasters or attacks.
The British government admitted that the authorities had questions and said that a rigorous investigation was needed to ensure that “this scale of the disorder is not repeated.”
Heathrow Executive Director Thomas Woldbye said he was “proud” in the way that air staff reacted.
“Remember, the situation was not created at Heathrow’s airport,” he told the BBC. “The airport has not closed for days. We closed for hours.”
He said that Heathrow’s safety power power, designed for emergency cases, did as expected, but it was not enough to run the entire airport, which uses as much energy as a small town.
“That’s how most airports work,” said Woldbye, who insisted that “also happens to other airports” confronted with a similar flame.
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Heathrow is one of the world’s most prominent airports for international trips, and last year he saw 83.9 million passengers.
The passengers on about 120 flights were in the air when the closing was announced in different cities and even different countries.
The disorder on Friday was one of the most serious than the eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull 2010 in 2010, which inserted ash clouds in the atmosphere for days and closed European airspace.
Mark Doherty and his wife were halfway through the Atlantic, when the Infleght map showed a flight from New York airport, John F. Kennedy’s airport Airport to Heathrow.
“I was like, you are kidding,” Doherty said before the pilot told passengers to return to New York.
Doherty called the situation “Typical English-not got a spare plan because something happens like this. There is no plan of extraordinary situations.”
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