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Planes begin to land at airport but airlines said the closure would continue to have a ‘huge impact’ on passengers in the coming daysBritish Airways, which operates around half of all Heathrow flights, resumed long-haul services on Friday evening after power was restored.The chief executive, Sean Doyle, said BA had “been forced to effectively ground our flying operation”, cancelling every short-haul and the majority of long-haul flights scheduled for Friday.We can confirm that Heathrow is open and fully operational today. Teams across the airport continue to do everything they can to support passengers impacted by yesterday’s outage at an off-airport power substation.We have hundreds of additional colleagues on hand in our terminals and we have added flights to today’s schedule to facilitate an extra 10,000 passengers travelling through the airport. Continue reading…
Planes begin to land at airport but airlines said the closure would continue to have a ‘huge impact’ on passengers in the coming days
British Airways, which operates around half of all Heathrow flights, resumed long-haul services on Friday evening after power was restored.
The chief executive, Sean Doyle, said BA had “been forced to effectively ground our flying operation”, cancelling every short-haul and the majority of long-haul flights scheduled for Friday.
We can confirm that Heathrow is open and fully operational today. Teams across the airport continue to do everything they can to support passengers impacted by yesterday’s outage at an off-airport power substation.
We have hundreds of additional colleagues on hand in our terminals and we have added flights to today’s schedule to facilitate an extra 10,000 passengers travelling through the airport.
