London Heathrow airport chief Thomas Woldbye has defended the decision to close the hub after it suffered a substantial loss ...

One week after a catastrophic fire at the North Hyde electrical substation plunged the UK’s flagship Heathrow Airport into ...

In 2024, Heathrow was the busiest airport in Europe by passenger numbers and the fourth busiest worldwide. Nearly 84 million ...

“Heathrow being such a busy airport and full, there’s no kind of wriggle room for getting out of these kind of things.” The United Kingdom's Air Traffic Control said it had “well-rehearsed ...

The power outage that crippled London-Heathrow on Friday was not an isolated incident for the global airline industry, except ...

Heathrow Airport authorities are ... runways, the control tower, control software and systems, and the air traffic management system. “Other auxiliaries, such as retail outlets, maintenance ...

Flights which had been due to land at Heathrow are likely to be forced to divert out of the UK, due to a lack of capacity at other British airports. In a bulletin, Eurocontrol, the air traffic control ...

Heathrow — where the UK government plans to build a third runway — was at the heart of a shorter disruption in 2023 when Britain’s air traffic control system was hit by a breakdown that ...

About 120 flights were in the air when the closure ... “Living near Heathrow is noisy, there are planes every 90 seconds or so, plus the constant hum of traffic, but you get used to it, to ...

Heathrow Airport in London, one of the world's busiest airports, announced it will be closed Friday after a large fire at a nearby electrical substation caused a power outage. "Due to a fire at an ...

Some flights began to land at London's Heathrow Airport late on Friday after a fire at a power station grounded planes at Europe's busiest air hub, causing travel chaos ... on Thursday and had brought ...

LONDON (AP) — A fire that closed London’s Heathrow Airport has sparked ... August 2023: UK air traffic control problems A glitch at Britain’s National Air Traffic Services in August 2023 ...