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Heathrow Airport was reopened on Saturday morning after a complete shutdown by an electrical failure. However, the airlines warned of further disorders when they restarted the company.
The airport was reopened on Saturday morning for flights and the first aircraft started shortly after 6 a.m.
Heathrow said it was “open and fully functional”, but the airlines had canceled almost 100 flights on Saturday at 8 a.m. when they started with the logistical challenge of restarting their operations with aircraft, crews and passengers and being scattered worldwide.
Thomas Woldbye, Heathrow’s managing director, said on Saturday that he was “proud” to the airport’s answer The electrical failure And forecast no “serious disorder”.
However, some managers of airlines were privately frustrated about the news of the airport that he fully recovered, as they were still canceling flights and dealing with dealing with Passering stranded.
British Airways, by far the largest airline operator in Heathrow, said that about 15 percent of his schedule would probably be gradually canceled on Saturday, which would make up about 90 flights.
“Repeat a operation of our size after such a significant incident.
Heathrow was closed in the early morning hours of Friday after a fire in a local current of electricity in West London caused a power failure at the airport.
The airport and the national network have both checked intensively on how the failure of one of the three substation could lead to Heathrow’s closure for almost 24 hours.
Willie Walsh, the former boss of BA and a long -time critic of Heathrow, said that the airport had given a “clear planning failure”.
Woldbye said that the Airport’s backup power supply for its critical functions including the runway lights and the control tower had started, but they were not intended to supply the entire airport.
“We would need a separate standby power plant on the site … I don’t know a airport that has it,” he told the BBC.
“We will of course examine and say this, we can learn from it, we need a different degree of resilience if we cannot trust that the network around us works as it should.”
National Grid on Saturday stated to take measures to improve the resistance in his network.
The FTSE 100 company owns and operates the North Hyde recruitment advertising in Hayes, West London, which caught fire on Thursday evening late Thursday and triggers questions about the susceptibility of the Britain’s critical infrastructure.
The cause of the fire is still being examined, but National Grid said that power has now been restored to all customers.
“Power supply has been restored to all customers associated with our substation in North Hyde, including Heathrow, so the operations at the airport can be resumed. We are now carrying out measures to further improve the resilience of our network,” it said.
About 1,300 flights were canceled on Friday and flights that were already filmed in the air to their original airport or were diverted to other hubs across Europe.
This has given airlines with a major challenge when they restart their schedules: Many of their aircraft, pilots and cabin crews are in the wrong areas, while many employees will not be able to work due to strict rules for the tranquility between flights.
“All of these long-haul aircraft, especially BAS-SEN, landed at airports where they should never be. If there are no crews that they pick up, the airlines will have difficulty getting their planes in motion,” said John Strickland, an aviation consultant.
“The crew also needs a day or two before it can restart, and every further day there is additional cancellations in the coming days. It is a domino effect.”
Heathrow said that an additional starting and landing slot added to the schedule, which would enable another 10,000 passengers to travel on Saturday if airlines and crew can find them for them.
The command of the police of the London Metropolitan Police continued to conduct inquiries to the fire in the substation, but on Friday evening the Met said that they did not treat the incident as suspicious.
