LONDON: Some flights began to land at London's Heathrow Airport late on Friday (Mar 21) after a fire at a power station grounded planes at ... of British Airways, the biggest carrier at Heathrow ...
Europe's biggest airport was forced to shut down on Thursday after a fire broke out at a nearby substation that supplies it with electricity. The closure has left thousands of travelers stranded.
Some planes already on their way London managed to land at other UK airports - but many including ... Air Canada and Delta have suffered the largest number of cancellations and diversions.
became the largest ever aircraft to land at the airport on a regular scheduled flight, surpassing even the Airbus A318 that British Airways operated to New York from the airport until 2020. The ...
Today alone, 1,351 flights were due to take off and land at the UK’s largest airport ... Heathrow when the fire broke out. Planes have been diverted to airports across the UK and Europe or ...
The London Fire Brigade, meanwhile, announced that the fire at the North Hyde electrical substation, which closed Britain's largest ... European airports braced for an influx of planes already ...
with some 145,000 passengers expected to land in the UK’s busiest airport. Heathrow was due to see more than 1,330 scheduled flights on Friday, flying some 291,000 passengers, Cirium said. British ...
A British Airways plane ... managed to land at other UK airports. British Airways, American Airlines, Virgin Atlantic, United Airlines, Air Canada and Delta have suffered the largest number ...
This includes 679 scheduled to land and ... taken off the plane and waited in the airport for a plane to take them back to the UK. Some 120 flights to the airport were in the air when the closure was ...
A further 669 flights were due to arrive today, with some 145,000 passengers expected to land in the UK ... British Airways had the largest share of flights from the airport (51 per cent ...