Heathrow Airport in London “operates at full capacity” after the fire caused the power out, which prompted the cancellation of flights and chaos

Heathrow Airport in London was reopened on Saturday after A. power failure In one of The most crowded world airports The previous day caused widespread chaos.

Published on the airport Website “The flights in Heathrow have resumed, and we are completely open and operated. The teams continue all over the airport to do everything in their power to support passengers who were affected by yesterday’s interruption in an external power station,” he said on Saturday.

“We have hundreds of additional colleagues on hand at our stations, and we have added flights to today’s schedule to facilitate 10,000 additional passengers traveling through the airport,” the airport also said in a statement.

Friday, a fire at an electric sub -station that cut the energy to the airport for most of the day. The power outage affected more than 1,300 flights to and from Heathrow and travel malfunctions for more than 200,000 passengers. It also reduced power outages to more than 16,000 homes in the area.

The closed transmission axis effect was for more than 16 hours. About a million Americans travel via Heathrow Airport every month.

“The pilot appeared and said that some of us have noticed that the plane was turning, not to worry, but London Heathrow was closed due to a fire,” said Justin McLean, who flew from Boston.

Meanwhile, the pressure on airlines and heathrow were installed to care for passengers.

“Emergency cases of certain sizes we cannot guard ourselves against 100 %, and this is one of them,” said Thomas and Oldby, CEO of Heathrow. “This has been a big accident. I mean, less than anyone is hurt, and this is as large as we get our airport and we are back very quickly.”

While some travelers and officials are calling for an investigation into the fire, the police say there is no early indication of the error of play. Given the great impact made by the fire on the national infrastructure, the anti -terrorist police lead the investigation.

the The latest numbers From the Oag Show Heathrow Travel Data provider is the fifth most crowded airports in the world this month. Earlier this year, I mentioned The most January is the crowd ever, with more than 6.3 million passengers and an average of more than 200,000 passengers per day. More than 1.2 million of these passengers traveled between the United Kingdom and the United States