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Flights will resume at Heathrow Airport on Friday evening as its chief executive apologised to stranded passengers and defended the response to an…

More than 1,300 flights to and from Heathrow were disrupted after a blaze broke out at a critical electrical substation

Heathrow Airport, the busiest airport in Europe, was shut down following a fire at a single electricity sub-station on the night of March 20. The fire at the North Hyde substation in Hayes, about 1.5 miles from Heathrow in west London, seriously disrupted the area’s power supply, including that of…

Airlines and passengers likely to face days of disruption after fire at substation causes travel chaos

Airport chief said the blaze which knocked out an electricity substation was ‘as big as it gets’

As well as airlines and passengers, local business and the wider UK economy would be hit by the shutdown

More than 100,000 British Airways customers aboard some 670 flights were affected on Friday, its chief executive said.

Hangry passengers can at least get a meal and a pint at this chain

London’s Heathrow Airport has been forced to close temporarily after a fire in a nearby electricity substation. More than 1,300 flights have been suspended and thousands of passengers left stranded.