Heathrow London Airport is reopened and returns to full operation

The UK transmission system operator said on Saturday morning on network X that he had restored electricity supplies to all customers, including Heathrow.

Heathrow airport had to on Friday due to electricity failure to renounce at least 1350 flightswhich also affected the connection with Prague. The problems were not only on 290,000 passengers that the air port planned to check in, but also on rail and road transport.

“We put hundreds of auxiliary colleagues”

Some flights were renewed on Friday evening, but to close the fifth busiest airport in the world for most of the day, tens of thousands of people were forced to look for scarce hotel rooms or surrogate flights.

Meanwhile, airlines were returning aircraft and their crews to the home airport or diverted them to other airports in Europe.

Heathrow spokesman said in an e-mail statement sent by Reuters that the airport is working for whole teams that help passengers that the outage touched. « We have deployed hundreds of auxiliary colleagues on our terminals and we have added more flights to today's flight schedule to allow us to travel to additional 10,000 passengers, » the spokesman said.

The tourism industry facing the prospect of financial losses of tens of millions of pounds and probable disputes over who pays them in the meantime asking how it is possible that so key infrastructure may fail without backup systems, Reuters said.