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The Heathrow Airport reopened on Saturday morning after complete exclusion caused by the interruption of electricity, but the airline warned of further disorders while restarting surgery.
The airport was completely open to flights on Saturday morning, and the first planes took off just after 6am.
Heathrow said it was “open and completely operational”, but the airlines canceled nearly 100 flights on Saturday until 8 am, as they began a logistical challenge to restart their operations by planes, crews and passengers on the place and scattered all over the world.
Thomas Woldbye, Executive Director Heathrow, on Saturday he said he was “proud” to the airport response to Electric interruption And he did not anticipate the “main disorder”.
However, some airline managers were privately frustrated on the airport messages that they had fully recovered, given that they were still canceling their flights and dealing with it stranded passengers.
British Airways, by far the biggest airplane in Heathrow, said he expected to cancel about 15 percent of the schedule to and from Heathrow on Saturday, which would be about 90 flights.
“To regain the surgery of our size after such a significant incident is extremely complex … Probably all customers who travel will experience delays as we continue to move the challenges set on Friday at the airport interruption,” said the airline.
Heathrow was closed in the early hours of Friday after a fire at the local electricity substation in West London caused an interruption of electricity at the airport.
The airport and national network face intense control of the failure of one of the three substations could lead to the closure of Heathrow for almost 24 hours.
Willie Walsh, a former BA chief and longtime critic Heathrow, said the airport had taken place “clear failure of planning.”
Woldbye said that spare power supplies were airports for their critical functions, including runways and control tower, but that they were not designed to power the entire airport.
“We will need a separate convenience power plant … I don’t know about the airport that has it,” he told the BBC.
“Of course we will consider it and say that we can learn from this, do we need a different level of resistance if we cannot believe that the net around us is working the way we should.”
On Saturday, the national network said she took steps to improve your network resistance.
The FTSE 100 company owns and manages the North Hyde’s upheaval in Hayes, West London, which caught fire late on Thursday night, raising questions about vulnerability of critical infrastructure in the UK.
The cause of the fire is still explored, but the national network said that power was now returned to all customers.
“The supply of power supply has been restored to all customers associated with our North Hyde substation, including Heathrow, allowing surgery to continue at the airport. We are now applying measures to further improve the level of resistance of our network,” the statement said.
About 1,300 flights were canceled on Friday and the flights were already in the air or turned to their original airport or were diverted to other hubs across Europe.
This has left airline companies with a big challenge as they have re -launched their arrangements: many of their planes, pilots and cabin crew are in the wrong places, while many staff will also not be able to work because of the strict holiday rules between flights.
“All these aircraft-they have been at the airports at the airports they have never been to be. If there is no crew there they would pick them up, the airline will fight to move their aircraft again as normal,” said John Strickland, Air Force Advisor.
“The crew will also need a vacation day or two before they are restarted, and every additional day is additional cancellation in the days ahead. This is a domino effect.”
Heathrow said that he had added an additional 50 grooves to his schedule for take -off and landing, which would allow for a further 10,000 passengers to travel on Saturday if they could find aircraft and crew for them.
The London Command of the Metropolitan Police continued to conduct investigations into Fire in the substation, but on Friday night, Met said the incident was not treated as suspicious.
