Heathrow Airport was warned about the "resilience" of its power supply in the days before a fire which shut down the airport ...

More than 1,400 flights were diverted or cancelled by the near-total shutdown of Heathrow on Friday 21 March. A fire broke out in a transformer within the North Hyde electrical substation in Hayes, ...

London Heathrow airport chief Thomas Woldbye has defended the decision to close the hub after it suffered a substantial loss electrical power on 21 March. Woldbye, who was appointed to the post in ...

London's Heathrow Airport reopened on Saturday after a power outage at one of the world's busiest airports the previous day caused widespread chaos and cancellations.

The planes and passengers are back in the sky, but the financial fallout from last month’s shutdown at London’s Heathrow ...

Thomas Woldbye, Heathrow’s chief executive, has come under attack for the airport’s handling of the incident. The chief executive of National Grid, John Pettigrew, told the Financial Times on ...

But Thomas Woldbye, Heathrow’s chief executive, said he was “proud” of the airport’s response to the “unprecedented” crisis and claimed it is not unusual for airports to be so ...

The shutdown has led to criticism of the airport for a lack of redundancy systems and the actions of its CEO, Thomas Woldbye. He went home to sleep and left the decision to shut down flights to a ...

Thomas Woldbye, chief executive of Heathrow, told MPs that the first problems became apparent shortly after midnight: “We realised we were losing power to the airport. In our operations centre ...