6 d. ago Heathrow Airport had enough power to avoid shutdown after fire, Britain’s National Grid says

Heathrow Airport had enough power to avoid shutdown after fire, Britain’s National Grid says  CNBC

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6 d. ago Heathrow had access to power despite shutdown, says National Grid chief

John Pettigrew said two substations were ‘always available for the distribution network companies and Heathrow to take power’

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6 d. ago Heathrow Airport slams National Grid boss who claims it had 'enough power' despite shutdown

The National Grid CEO John Pettigrew said Heathrow Airport had enough power to avoid Friday's shutdown, but the airport has hit back saying it was an 'unprecedented incident'

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7 d. ago Heathrow had enough power to keep the airport running after substation fire, boss of National Grid insists

In his first comments since the fire broke out late on Thursday night, John Pettigrew (pictured) said that, while one substation was knocked out two others serving the airport were working throughout.

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7 d. ago National Grid boss says Heathrow could have stayed open despite substation fire

Two other substations available to supply airport with electricity, according to chief executive John PettigrewThere was enough power for Heathrow to remain open during the entire period it was shut down on Friday, the head of National Grid has said.Speaking for the first time since a fire forced North Hyde substation to close, the National Grid chief executive, John Pettigrew, said two other substations that serve Heathrow were working and could have supplied the airport with all the power it needed to remain open. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Heathrow had enough power despite shutdown, says National Grid chief

John Pettigrew said two substations were ‘always available for the distribution network companies and Heathrow to take power’.

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7 d. ago National Grid chief says Heathrow had ‘enough power’ despite fire shutdown

Airlines raise questions about scale of flight disruption after substation blaze

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7 d. ago Heathrow boss 'went back to bed' as power station fire sparked airport chaos

Heathrow CEO Thomas Woldbye delegated the formal decision to close the airport to his deputy in the early hours of Friday, according to reports

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7 d. ago Heathrow boss went back to BED as power substations fire closed airport to make sure he was 'well rested'

Thomas Woldbye was at an event in central London when the power first went out at 11pm on Thursday, prompting him to return to the airport west of the capital.

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7 d. ago Power outage at London’s Heathrow Airport unexpectedly extends trip for Jacksonville

Power outage at London’s Heathrow Airport unexpectedly extends trip for Jacksonville-based faith group  WJXT News4JAX

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8 d. ago Heathrow Airport returning to normal as investigations ordered into power outage

British Airways said it is anticipating being able to run a ‘near-full schedule’ on Sunday.

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8 d. ago Heathrow chiefs and ministers were warned 10 years ago that power supply was 'key weakness' that could cripple Europe's busiest airport

A report by Jacobs, a major consultancy, highlighted in November 2014 how electricity outages could completely shut Europe's busiest airport.

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8 d. ago Heathrow airport: Urgent probe ordered into power outage which was branded ‘national embarrassment’

Energy secretary Ed Miliband orders grid operator to conduct ‘urgent’ probe into fire which caused ‘unprecedented’ Heathrow shutdown

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8 d. ago Government orders 'urgent investigation' into Heathrow Airport power outage

It comes after power has been restored to the airport and the surrounding areas

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8 d. ago London's Heathrow Airport is "fully operational" after fire caused power outage, prompting flight cancellations and chaos

London's Heathrow Airport is "fully operational" after fire caused power outage, prompting flight cancellations and chaos  CBS News

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8 d. ago Heathrow boss says he is 'proud' of how airport responded to power outage

Flights began taking off on Friday evening following hours of closure after a blaze at an electricity substation in Hayes cut power to the west London airport.

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8 d. ago Operations return to normal at London’s Heathrow Airport after power outage that caused global travel chaos

Operations return to normal at London’s Heathrow Airport after power outage that caused global travel chaos  CNN

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8 d. ago Full list of cancelled Heathrow flights as airport recovers from power outage

More than 600 flights were due to land at Heathrow on Friday - carrying up to 145,000 people

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8 d. ago Heathrow airport reopens but ‘huge impact’ on travel expected for days – live updates

Planes begin to land at airport but airlines said the closure would continue to have a “huge impact” on passengers in the coming daysHeathrow airport says “flights have resumed at Heathrow following yesterday’s power outage” and the airport is now “fully operational”.It added that and that hundreds of additional staff have been drafted in to help clear the backlog of flights.We can confirm that Heathrow is open and fully operational today. Teams across the airport continue to do everything they can to support passengers impacted by yesterday’s outage at an off-airport power substation.We have hundreds of additional colleagues on hand in our terminals and we have added flights to today’s schedule to facilitate an extra 10,000 passengers travelling through the airport.Given the importance of Heathrow I am surprised that the whole airport had to be shut for a day.I mean, you could understand disruption whilst you change over to alternate systems and so on, but such a complete failure o...

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8 d. ago Heathrow airport live: Flights begin landing after mass disruption as airport aims to resume ‘full operation’

BA expects to operate around 85 per cent of its scheduled flights

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