18 h. ago Heathrow airport live: Passengers to face ‘huge’ impact into the weekend as airport aims to resume ‘full operation’

The London airport said it hopes to run a ‘full operation’ on Saturday after flights resumed on Friday evening

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27 h. ago Heathrow closure: airport resumes some flights today and hopes for full Saturday service

First plane has landed since fire caused closure but people still told not to travel to the airport unless advised to do so by airlineCounter-terror police leading fire inquiryTell us: have you been affected by London’s Heathrow airport closure?Airlines’ carefully choreographed networks depend on airplanes and crews being in specific locations at specific times. Dozens of air carriers will have to hurriedly reconfigure their networks to move planes and crews around after the Heathrow closure.“The other question is, ‘What will airlines do to deal with the backlog of passengers?’”, said travel industry analyst Henry Harteveldt with Atmosphere Research Group. “It’s going to be a chaotic couple of days.” Continue reading...

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29 h. ago Heathrow closure: airport plans to resume some flights today and hopes for full Saturday service

First services will be repatriation flights with people still told not to travel to the airport unless advised to do so by airlineCounter-terror police leading fire inquiryTell us: have you been affected by London’s Heathrow airport closure?Airlines’ carefully choreographed networks depend on airplanes and crews being in specific locations at specific times. Dozens of air carriers will have to hurriedly reconfigure their networks to move planes and crews around after the Heathrow closure.“The other question is, ‘What will airlines do to deal with the backlog of passengers?’”, said travel industry analyst Henry Harteveldt with Atmosphere Research Group. “It’s going to be a chaotic couple of days.” Continue reading...

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33 h. ago Live updates: Travel chaos after fire shuts down Heathrow Airport, leaving passengers stranded

Live updates: Travel chaos after fire shuts down Heathrow Airport, leaving passengers stranded  The Associated Press

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39 h. ago Heathrow Airport closed all day after fire causes ‘significant’ power outage

People are being told not to travel to the airport under any circumstances

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39 h. ago Heathrow latest LIVE: Passengers told 'do not travel to airport' as airport closure forces 120 planes to divert

The power cut has thrown airline schedules around the world into disarray as hundreds of flights face cancellation or are forced to divert

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39 h. ago Heathrow closed all day after fire causes ‘significant’ power outage

People are being told not to travel to the airport under any circumstances

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41 h. ago Flight chaos across the world with hundreds of planes forced to divert or turn around as London's Heathrow Airport shuts due to fire

London 's biggest terminals - which facilitates upwards of 200,000 travelers a day - were forced to shut down on Friday after a fire at a nearby substation caused a major power outage.

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42 h. ago Flight chaos across the world with hundreds of planes forced to divert or turn around as London's Heathrow Air

Flight chaos across the world with hundreds of planes forced to divert or turn around as London's Heathrow Air  Daily Mail

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5 d. ago Ryanair plane surrounded by fire engines at Manchester Airport after forced emergency landing

A Ryanair flight from Manchester Airport to Agadir in Morocco was in the air for around an hour before the pilot was forced to divert and land the plane after a 'minor technical issue' was spotted

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8 d. ago Moment 'drunk' woman who forced UK flight to Egypt to divert is removed from plane by police as British passengers cheer 'Too late to cry now!'

EXC: The woman, who has not been named and is thought to be in her late 40s, had been drinking for most of the flight according to eyewitnesses, with her family.

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2 w. ago Stuart Pearce update after England hero taken ill on flight as tributes paid by clubs

Former England star Stuart Pearce is reportedly in 'good spirits' after he was taken ill on a trans-Atlantic flight with the plane forced to divert as Nottingham Forest and Manchester City pay tribute

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2 w. ago Stuart Pearce suffers worrying health scare on plane as his flight is forced to divert

The former Nottingham Forest and Manchester City captain, 62, was on his way back to the UK after watching Warrington Wolves in a rugby league match in Las Vegas

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3 w. ago Delta Air Lines plane cabin 'fills with smoke' as passengers forced to urgently evacuate

The Delta plane was forced to divert to an airport in Atlanta, Georgia, where 94 passengers two pilots, and three flight attendants fled the cabin using the emergency exit slides

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