The Latest: Heathrow coming back to life hours after fire shut down busy hub
A passenger stands in front of a flight information screen showing cancelled flights destined for the Heathrow Airport in London, at the Indira Gandhi International Airport, in New Delhi, India, Friday, March 21, 2025. Credit: AP/Shonal Ganguly
LONDON — Heathrow Airport stirred back to life late Friday, with flights slowly resuming about 18 hours after an inferno at an electrical substation caused a power outage that shuttered Europe’s busiest air travel hub and left 200,00 passengers stranded.
A British Airways jet touched down just before sunset after Heathrow lifted its closure order that disrupted global travel for hundreds of thousands of passengers. Further arrivals followed, including a short-haul flight from Manchester in northwest England.
The first departure took place later Friday. The British government temporarily lifted restrictions on overnight flights to help clear the backlog.
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