Heathrow’s closure for a fire causes airport chaos with at least 1,300 affected flights | International

Since the early hours of this Friday, thousands of passengers and airlines around the world have been involved in a logistics nightmare that has its origin in London. Heathrow Airport, the most traffic in Europe (more than 80 million travelers) and the fifth in the world, has been closed from the first hour and will remain closed all day. A spectacular fire in the Electric Substation of Hayes, west of the British capital, has caused an energy cut that has completely paralyzed the landings and aircraft take -off. Thousands of flights planned for this Friday have been canceled. In the early afternoon, however, those responsible for the airport have recognized not “clarity” about when they can land again and take off airplanes, and have recognized that the “significant disruption” in operations will last several days. Outage.to Maintain The Safety of Our Passengers and Colleagues, Heathrow Will Be Closed Until 23H59 On 21 March. Passengers are Advised Not To Travel to the Airport … pic.twitter.com/7swnjp8Ojd— Heathrow Airport (@heathrowairport) March 21, 2025 According to the last part of the London Firefighters, the fire has been controlled at 6.28 (7.28, Spanish peninsular time). However, at three in the afternoon (four, in Spanish peninsular schedule) the smoke of the substation continued to emerge. More than 10,000 homes had been affected by losing their electricity supply. The Minister of Energy, Ed Miliband, has reduced – in statements to the public chain BBC – to some 4,000 households still affected by the contingency. The airport has “multiple sources” of electricity, as assured by a source of the internal organization to the BBC. There are generators that work with diesel and other supplies with uninterrupted character. All these reinforcement systems have worked, but do not produce enough energy to maintain Heathrow’s complete operation. That explains the decision to suspend all the activity, while the electricity is redirected to the affected areas. Although the anti -terrorism unit of the London Metropolitan Police is the one that has taken the reins of the investigation – something that occurs practically by rule, given the location of the substation and the impact of the incident on critical infrastructure – there are no indications that the fire in the fire in the electricity intentional. “We are working with firefighters to identify the cause of fire, but nothing aims at dirty game,” said a spokesman for that police unit. 70 members of the Fire Department have moved to the airport in 10 trucks to fight the flames. A government spokesman has already made it clear that Heathrow chaos leaves many questions in the air, “and we hope they will be clarified,” he said. The priority, however, is to end the fire, and not speculate with a possible intentionality, he added. Impact on airlines around the world120 flights to Heathrow have been directed to other airports early in the morning, but the authorities have confirmed from the beginning that the activity was going to be completely paralyzed throughout the day. The main London airport, one of the most tourist cities in the world, plans 1,351 operations during the day, between takeoffs and landings. As for Spain, this Friday, 54 operations are planned from and from Spain (29 with Madrid, 19 with Barcelona, ​​and two in Malaga, in Tenerife Sur and in Valencia), according to the Spanish airport manager AENA. “This will disturb the operations of the airlines around the world,” said the director of the Fumtradar24 flight monitoring website, Ian Petchenik. In fact, other experts have declared to the agency that the chaos derived from the London airport break will last several days. To go to the airport British authorities have recommended to all travelers who had some flight scheduled from Heathrow to suspend their plans and avoid going to the airport. Some aircraft to London have been able to be diverted to the Gatwick airport, the second largest in the British capital and about 60 kilometers south of Heathrow. However, hundreds of ships from all over the world to the city have been held on land, or have ended up landing in other European airports. The Australian airline Qantas has directed its Singapore-London and Perth-London flights to the Parisian airport of Charles de Gaulle, to move from there to the passengers to their final destination by bus. Some flights from the United States have changed course in the middle of the crossing, when knowing the problems in Heathrow, to return to their airport of origin or some other. At least half a dozen aircraft from US territory have ended up landing at the Irish airport in Shannon, west of the island. 34 flights that connected Dublin and London have been canceled. The Eurostar company, which operates the railroads that connect London and Paris through the Canal de la Mancha, has enabled two more trains on Friday, with capacity for 882 passengers each, to help transfer the travelers affected by the closure of Heathrow.For the airport transit more than eighty million passengers every year. With four terminals, the facilities connect London with 200 destinations from more than 80 countries. Keir Starmer’s labor government had just authorized the construction of a third track, scheduled for 2035, which will help relieve Heathrow congestion. Four other airports serve the British capital. Passers and merchandise in addition to the tens of millions of passengers who travel through Heathrow, the airport is a gigantic exchanger for the transport of goods. It serves about 234 destinations, and moves products worth more than 225,000 million euros. According to airport sources itself, 48% of all merchandise air transport of 2023 went through Heathrow. Together with the deviation and gathering of passengers, the cast of the entire cap of accumulated products in the facilities will take days to be relieved. (Tagstotranslate) Fire

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