Heathrow resumes flights and hopes to recover normally this Saturday

The Heathrow London airport has announced the resumption of flights after a fire in a substation that it left without electricity supply. The airport expects to recover normally this Saturday.

“Our teams have worked tirelessly from the incident to guarantee a quick recovery. Now we can safely resume flights, with priority to the repatriation and relocation of aircraft,” the airport has written in its social network X account.

The airport of Heathrow London announced a complete closure this morning due to a “considerable energy -neNee” as a result of a fire in an electric substation in the British city of Hayes, west of the capital.

More than 1350 of his flights -679 planned arrivals and 678 departure for today -are affected by what happened, according to data from the FUMtradar24 -flight monitoring service in its X account.

Heathrow is the most busy airport in Europe, with a total of 83.4 million passengers in 2024, who achieve a new annual record.

Affected airports

No Basque airport has been hit by cancellations, because there is no planned flight with that Heathrow destination for today.

The closure of Heathrow-London affects 54 flights in the Spanish state, of which 22 routes have already been canceled in Madrid and Barcelona with origin or destination to the British capital.

This was reported by Aena in his X account, in which he specified that 10 flights, five arrivals and five outputs were suppressed in Madrid, while they have been eliminated journeys in Barcelona, ​​five of which have arrived and there are seven

In addition, the airport of Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas five operations has been diverted to London Destination and Cape Town, Bermudas, Rio de Janeiro, Miami and Sao Paulo, together with another detour to Barcelona from Cabo del Cape.