All arrival and departure flights to the airport had been cancelled at London’s Heathrow Airport for twenty-four hours. As a result of a hearth at {an electrical} substation supplying the airport, Heathrow was experiencing a major energy outage. Heathrow was closed till 23h59 on 21 March. Right here we convey you information from Cirium.
Cirium Knowledge – Heathrow Closure
On 21 March (5:30pm GMT):
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The airport was scheduled to see 665 departures at the moment, equating to over 145,094 seats
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An extra 669 flights had been on account of arrive at the moment, equating to 145,836 seats
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In complete, due to this fact, the airport was on account of see over 1,330 scheduled flights at the moment, flying up 291,000 passengers
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British Airways has the most important share of flights from the airport (51%), adopted by Virgin Atlantic and Lufthansa.
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100 inbound flights to Heathrow had been diverted to different worldwide airports on twenty first March , as a result of closure
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Remaining flights had been cancelled
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This weekend, the airport was scheduled to see over 2,520 departures and arrivals mixed – equating to 557,488 seats
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That was cut up by 1,219 flights on Saturday (271,677 seats) and 1,301 flights on Sunday (285,811 seats)
