Haitro Airlines warned of “flexibility” of energy supplies before the fire

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Haitro Airport airlines have warned of concerns about the elastic supply of electricity days before the power outages closed the most crowded airports in the UK and hundreds of canceled flights.

Heathrow It was closed on March 21 after a massive fire at a nearby power station that caused the air to reduce the airport, which resulted in the abolition of more than 1300 flights. The airport has not been completely reopened for more than 24 hours.

“I actually warned of Heathrow of the concerns we went through regarding the sub -stations, and my concern was flexibility,” said Nigel Wiking, CEO of Heathrow AoC, who represents the airport airlines, said the transportation committee chosen on Wednesday.

Wiking MPS told that he raised his concerns for the first time on March 15th, after “accidents of stolen wires and cables about some of the energy supplies that were directed at one time listed for a while.”

Thomas and Oldby, CEO of Heathrow, apologized for disrupting airlines and passengers. “The situation is unprecedented and we realize the great attention and inconvenience it causes,” he said.

Woldbye insisted that the airport had no choice but to close safety lands, but he said that the airport would review whether it could reopen some stations more quickly.

He added: “I am completely committed to ensuring that we are learning from this.”

The National Network, which runs the UK high voltage network, said that Power was always available to the airport from other nearby sub -stations, which were not affected by the fire.

Weldby said that the delay in reopening the airport was caused by Heathrow engineers to re -configure his power supplies to take electricity from other sub -stations that lasted about 10 hours.

He insisted that Heathrow “contracted with a flexible group”, which includes “backups (and) parallel lines at the airport from three different sub -stations.”

“There is a question about where the flexibility should lie,” he added.