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Heathrow latest: Airport closed all day after London fire affects 1,300 flights
Thousands of homes have been left without power and more than 1,300 flights will be disrupted after a transformer within the North Hyde electrical substation caught fire in west London.
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/live/heathrow-closed-latest-airport-fire-flights-delays-071307475.html
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/live/heathrow-closed-latest-airport-fire-flights-delays-071307475.html
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What a disaster that is for so many people. Roughly 250,000 folks fly IN to Heathrow every day, & the same number fly out.
The knock-on effects - Crew & Aircraft in the wrong places, trying to re-book flights that are already 95% full - will last for many, many weeks.
And once power is restored, everything - computers, servers, aviation fuel pumps & so on - will all need re-setting.
I'm a tad surprised that Heathrow does not have it's own, independent generating capacity, or at the very least some redundancy built into the system.
Heathrow is due to be shut all day today, Friday, March 21, following a major power outage caused by a fire at a nearby substation.
Online flight tracking service Flightradar24 said the closure would affect more than 1,350 flights to and from Heathrow on Friday.
This includes 679 scheduled to land and 678 due to take off from the airport.
Passengers have been warned to expect "significant disruption over the coming days".
Heathrow has a number of hotels nearby.
These include Premier Inn, Ibis, Holiday Inn, Radisson, Hilton, and more.
The airport offers hotel and parking packages combining overnight stays with the site's Long Stay car parking.
Passengers have been left shocked and angered after hotels nearby to Heathrow have seen their prices soar for an overnight stay today.
Booking.com prices for one adult, checking in tonight, Friday, March 21, and checking out tomorrow, Saturday, March 22, are up to around £500.
Hilton London Heathrow Terminal 5 is showing as £429, with the Holiday Inn on Bath Road £569.
Comparing to the same stay next Friday, Hilton London Heathrow Terminal 5 is £102 and the Holiday Inn on Bath Road at just £89.
Angry passengers have been taking to social media following the rise.
Sharing a picture of the rises, one user said on X: "Ah here we go, hotels around Heathrow jump on the rip off bandwagon. Typical rip off Britain and they should hang their heads in shame."
"Profiteering should be banned," one replied.
It's dynamic pricing, & many businesses use it. Flights, trains, holidays, hotels, music gigs, all sorts. I see nothing wrong with it, & if I ran a local Hotel, of course I'd do the same, it'd be crazy not to.
Don't forget, it cuts both ways, when demand falls so do prices.
In Vegas the same Hotel room can cost $500 one night & $50 the next. One's expensive, one's cheap. Gotta go with the flow & ride the punches.
Madness.
They are the British Army's band of most fearsome killers with a history stretching back to the Second World War.
The Special Air Service, better known simply as the SAS, forged their reputation with shockingly violent raids in the dead of night.
But, according to Sky News and the Guardian this morning, the regiment with the famed motto of 'Who Dares Wins' also runs a busy roster of flights out of Heathrow.
In coverage of today's chaos caused by the closure of the airport after a fire, both outlets confused the elite troops with the national airline of Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
Scandinavian Airlines System, which is known as SAS, announced early his morning that it had cancelled all 12 of its flights to and from Heathrow.
At 6.58am, The Guardian said on their liveblog: 'The Special Air Service or SAS, has said that it also [sic] impacted by Heathrow's closure.'
And for several minutes on Sky News, the logo of the winged dagger logo of the SAS was displayed along with text that read: 'The Special Air Service says all 12 of their round trips to and from Heathrow are cancelled.'
Although both outlets swiftly corrected the error, it did not escape the notice of users on X, formerly known as Twitter.
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