Heathrow Airport is shut until Friday night

[Ozgirl76]

And my husband is due to fly home to Australia on Friday evening. I predict chaos.
Airport is saying that people should not travel to Heathrow and should contact their airlines.

And it’s very peaceful here! We’ve had more flights over our way recently because of the wind direction.

The question master must have used this but I'm sure there are many different definitions

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_busiest_airports_by_passenger_traffic

Sorry to hear those are impacted. Just thinking when we’ve relied on Heathrow and how difficult this would be.

DH has been told to “do nothing” and they’ll let him know. He’s currently in Manchester, due to fly from Heathrow this evening.
He has a hire car with Sixt though and said they’ve been great - told him he can return the car to any branch for free, keep the car as long as he needs it etc.

Atlanta.

Heathrow scores very highly when it comes to international passengers but not so much when it comes to passenger numbers or aircraft movements.

Of course it’s Russia, and the timing isn’t a coincidence. Last time there were big fires in Latvia, Germany and Poland, explosives on cargo planes, etc., everything indicated those were acts of sabotage by the peace-loving Russia.

No what i meant wasn't a load of batteries but alternative mains power.

Important national infrastructure should have telecoms and power redundancy built in, internet/telecoms lines provided from different Open reach exchanges, which in turn powered by different sources & power provided by different substations.

Otherwise, its just a single point of failure, which Heathrow should not have.

Yes expensive but this is a international embarrassment.

I didn’t expect that, interesting

I also thought there seems to be an awful lot of "accidents" at the moment!

Probably doesn't count, but I read years ago that Silverstone racing circuit, on F1 race days, was the world's busiest "airport" (presumably other circuits could also claim that when the GP was held at their circuits). As we lived very close at the time, I could believe it. The sky looked like a swarm of locusts with all the helicopters going in and out.

We used to get some wonderful free displays by the Red Arrows 😁

London's Heathrow: Europe's biggest airport

I just read that Qantas are planning to bus people from Paris to London. Can you imagine flying all the way from Singapore or Perth to Paris and then being told, right, all on the bus!

So what is Russia’s strategic objective here? What do you think they are they hoping to achieve by closing Heathrow Airport on a random Friday in March?

Fact: most longhaul flights have WiFi available (at a charge).

And the like of BA are now rolling it out on their short haul planes too.

Second fact: you still keep your phone on flight mode (you can turn on WiFi when your phone is on flight mode).

The "at a charge" varies - many airlines give it free to business/first and/or members of their frequent flyer club (even just the initial tier that anyone get sign up for).

We have had sea and air now just waiting for the land attack.

If you’ve ever worked at Heathrow and seen the baggage/computer/other stuff ups that have happened over the years you’d not be rushing to assume “Russia”…

now saying Britain's busiest airport on the radio, must be other people Needing to know!

@ElleneAsanto - I think magicmushroomsauce answered that on page 1. There was a big meeting planned for today with lots of military chiefs attending

Disruption, confusion and a big old dose of “Fuck you, we can do anything g we like and you can’t stop us.”

But this substation is not at Heathrow and they have no jurisdiction over it.

There is just not enough space at other UK airports to accommodate all the big planes which should have landed at Heathrow today. That's why planes were turned back.

My Dh works in this industry and I’ve lost count of the number of sub stations that have caught on fire over the years. You don’t hear about them much because it’s usually only homes and smaller businesses without power but because this one has took out an airport it’s obviously made the news. I feel for all the National Grid workers and the contractors who work for them today because they’ll be under so much pressure to get this up and running as best they can.

Always able to rely on MN for derailing threads with arguments about completely pointless minor details.

Does anyone think that if, Heathrow wasn't even amongst the top five busiest airports in Europe, that it would noticeably lessen the impact of it being closed today?