Heathrow restarts flights after closure causes global flight turmoil

I’d like to stress that this has been an incident of major severity. It’s not a small fire,

he said

We’re pleased to say we’re now safely able to begin some flights later today. Our first flights will be repatriation flights and relocating aircraft,

a Heathrow spokesperson said

Qantas staff at [Heathrow] Terminal 5 were lovely, handing out water and food,

she told the newspaper

Following an earlier power outage, Heathrow is now safely able to restart flights,

the airport said in a statement

There's absolutely no doubt that there are questions to answer on how this has happened and what can be done to prevent the scale of disruption we've seen from happening again.

A No 10 spokesman said

This potential lack of resilience at a critical national and international infrastructure site is worrying

Phil Hewitt, director of energy analysis firm Montel Group, said

Just how competent are Heathrow's bosses?

Justine Bayley, chairman of Stop Heathrow Expansion, said

Firstly, how is it that

he said

We have flight and cabin crew colleagues and planes that are currently at locations where we weren’t planning on them to be,

said Sean Doyle, chief executive of British Airways, the biggest carrier at Heathrow which had 341 flights scheduled to land there on Friday

Thomas Woldbyeheathrow boss

Tomorrow morning, we expect to be back in full operation, to 100% operation as a normal day,

said Heathrow chief executive Thomas Woldbye

This (power supply) is a bit of a weak point,

he told reporters outside the airport

They have stood up their resilience plans very swiftly and have been working in close collaboration with all the emergency responders and the airline operators,

she told reporters

You would think they would have significant back-up power,

one top executive from a European airline told Reuters

Ed Milibandenergy Secretary

There was a backup generator, but that was also affected by the fire, which gives a sense of how unusual, unprecedented it was,

Mr. Miliband said

John Armittsir

We’ve been clear the U.K. needs national resilience standards for our transport, digital, energy and water infrastructure,

said the commission’s chair, John Armitt, in a statement

I think things will change,

Mr. Gallagher said

There are lessons that have got to be learned here,

he told reporters on Friday afternoon

Basically, we designed things so that something can fail,

he said

There are questions to answer. We expect those questions to be answered but our clarity right now is on this incident being appropriately dealt with.”

A No 10 spokesperson said

We’re now stuck in limbo,

Mr Sidwell told The Independent from the couple’s hotel room