London, 22nd March 2025:

The good news is Heathrow Airport has resumed its flight operation from today onwards after a severe power outrae has resulted in impacting the operations on Friday 21st March 2025.

Passengers heading to London’s Heathrow Airport faced major disruptions due to fire at an electrical substation resulting in ceasing up of major chunk of flight operation and diverting them to alternate locations mid-air. This resulted in absolute chaos and panic as being one of most busiest airport of the world, such shut-down of airports situation for 18 hours was unexpected. This disruption led to widespread flight cancellations, rerouting challenges, and left approximately 200,000 passengers stranded.

However, with the efforts of the airport operators and their team, restrictions on overnight flights were temporarily lifted to help ease congestion from Saturday and the official statement from the Department of Transport mentioned that the passengers should come to Heathrow on Saturday as they normally would.

The official website has placed this note at their home page:

Heathrow update – Saturday 22 March 2025
Flights have resumed at Heathrow, and we are open and fully operational.

Teams across the airport continue to do everything they can to support passengers impacted by yesterday’s outage at an off-airport power substation.

Passengers travelling today should check with their airline for the latest information regarding their flight.