“Very eager to return”: Travelers on Heathrow are reopened

A crowd of passengers keen to reach Heathrow Airport in London on Saturday, a day after the power was overwhelmed Closing Thousands were forced to delay their flights.

When information paintings returned to life, an army of Additional airport staffPurple wearing, I grew up working to help people while walking through the peripheral doors.

Ganesh Sorech, a 25 -year -old student, was trying to return to Bangalore, India, among those who got a desirable seat on a trip on Saturday. After canceling the flight of India, his parents booked new tickets on Virgin Atlantic, while he spent tonight at a friend in Birmingham, England.

“I was very excited to return,” said Mr. Sorich. He admitted shame about screaming at his parents in frustration during the closing chaos. “I may apologize to them when I return.”

Travelers, who have been transferred or reserved, arrived early, with the reopening of trains and other transportation routes to the airport. One day before, the airport roads were empty except for police cars.

Hitro’s actor said on Saturday that the airport is “open and fully operating,” adding that additional flights in today’s schedule may accommodate 10,000 additional passengers. At the airport, information boards showed that most flights will leave on time, but ticket lines in ticket meters indicate that many travelers were in a more frustrating delay.

More than a thousand flights were transferred on Friday, which led to chaos on more than a quarter of the travel plans for one million people, and Cirium, a flight data company.

Some travelers chose not to wait for a trip outside Heathrow. Denyse Kumbuka had stayed at the 2 Dimmed Terminal 2 station as long as it was able to Friday, and spent hours on a seat in an attempt to return home to Dallas.

Then her husband found a seat for her on a journey through Austria. I moved to the underground railway system in London to the International Train Station in Saint Pancras and got a train to Paris. After spending tonight on another seat at Charles de Gaulle Airport, she made an early flight to Vienna, and then contacted Dallas on Saturday morning.

“I feel that my mother is” the house alone “, referring to the exhausting journey that was filmed in the 1990 movie.

Heathrow’s actor said that it was expected that it would be expected in the coming days that the airlines had tried to return their planes to their usual schedules.

For Stephen Delong, 74, and Lezli Scott, 73, it was found that the long line in the ticket office is the smoother part of their reinstated travel.

“You have to come here, you have to talk to someone,” said Mr. Delong. “Online service only does not work.”

The couple has just learned that instead of their original direct journey from London to Halifax, Air Canada will redirect them via Toronto, adding more than 15 hours to their travel time thanks to a long stop. They will have to spend another night in London because flights on Saturday were all booked. The closure has already caused the birth of their eighth grandson on Friday.

“You cannot get angry with it,” said Mr. Delong. “It will be different if someone blew up the generator.”

The police were still investigating what caused the fire at the sub -station in West London, which cut power to Heathrow.

John Yun The reports contributed.