“Significant disorders”
Power failure: London airport Heathrow dense all day
21.03.2025 – 06:06 a.m.Reading time: 1 min.
Europe’s largest airport is closed for one day. A power failure is the reason that ensures significant problems for air traffic in the coming days.
Heathrow London’s large airport was closed at night due to a power failure. The closure of Europe’s largest airport will continue until 11:59 p.m. (local time), the airport announced on the platform X. Passengers were instructed not to travel to the airport and contact their airline. “The passengers should never” go to the airport “before it was reopened, it said.
Several flights had to be diverted after the power failure in Heathrow. According to the tracking portal Flighttradar, around 120 aircraft were on their way to the London large airport in the early morning, which either had to fly to alternative airports or return to their starting airport.
The reason for the power failure is a larger fire at the substation in Hayes in the western London, which supplies the airport, Heathrow Airport continued. According to the police, thousands of households and many shops in the region are affected by the power failure. The London fire brigade moved out with ten fire trucks and around 70 firefighters to the burning substation in Hayes, as announced at X. The emergency services tried to control the fire under difficult conditions.
After the temporary closure of the Heathrow Airport London Airport due to the power failure, the airport operator expects “considerable disorders” of air traffic in the coming days.
Heathrow is the largest airport in Europe with more than 80 million passengers per year.
