The world’s 4th most busiest airport is closed, breaks global journeys and leads to a great headache for business travelers.
Britain’s Heathrow Airport is connected on Friday until 11:59 a big fire Caused a Reuters to lose his authority near the airport.
“When rescue teams responded to the incident, we did not clarify when the government may be reliably restored” airport spokesman Fox told the news. “We decided to close the security of our passengers and colleagues to 23h59 on March 21, 2025.”
“We expect an important violation in the coming days and passengers should not travel to the airport until the airport is reopened.”
In February 2025, the nearby 5.7 million passengers traveled through Heathrow, which was February February, Per Reuters. The airport held a record number (83.9 million) passengers in 2024.
NBC, about 200,000 passengers and 1300 flights are expected to be affected.
Heathrow is experiencing an important power outage due to fire in an electric substation that provides the airport.
Heathrow to protect the security of our passengers and colleagues will be closed on March 21 to 23h59.
It is recommended that passengers do not go to the airport … pic.twitter.com/7swnjp8ojd
– Heathrow Airport (@Heathrowowairport) March 21, 2025
What caused the fire that closed Heathrow airport?
BBC reports The fire started at the electric substation in Hayes in late Thursday evening and was taken under control on Thursday 6:28.
Some houses were also evacuated next to the fire.
This is a broken news story and will be updated.
