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Airlines warned Heathrow about power supply ‘resilience’ ahead of blaze

Claim comes as MPs hear evidence in wake of substation fire that led to hundreds of cancelled flights
Nigel Wicking, chief executive of Heathrow AOC, Thomas Woldbye, chief executive of Heathrow Airport, and Alice Delahunty, president of UK electricity transmission at National Grid, at the Transport select committee

Airlines warned Heathrow airport about concerns over the resilience of its electricity supply days before a power outage caused the closure of the UK’s busiest airport and hundreds of cancelled flights, MPs have heard. 

Heathrow closed on March 21 after a massive fire at a nearby electricity substation caused a power cut at the airport, leading to the cancellation of more than 1,300 flights. The airport did not fully reopen for more than 24 hours.

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