After closing the largest airport in Europe, desperate passengers seek alternative flights The economy

Despite passengers seeking alternative routes on Friday after the cancellation of hundreds of entrance and exit aircraft at Heathrow Airport in London in Europe due to power disruption.

Europe’s most crowded airport was closed throughout the day after a severe night firing at the substation where the power supply was cut.

At the Gatwick airport south of London, the 42 -year -old Talia Focides trembled with enthusiasm, and she had to leave London in the morning to stay with her mother, and she was exposed to open heart surgery.

When he found that Heathrow was closed, he ran to Gatwick, the second most crowded airport in the UK and found the flight to Athens at 12 noon (09pm in Bracelia).

“I don’t care about the money. I have to fly on the plane and be at home at the end of the day,” Focides told AFP.

“They didn’t give us any information. They left us alone. I don’t understand how it is possible,” he said.

Mohammed Al-Lib, a Tunisian citizen who works in London, wanted to go to Dubai to join his wife, he did not see for months.

“I don’t know if I have another flight. Now I have no other alternative than waiting for me. I feel powerless,” he said, pessimist, when I was walking towards Gatwick’s information desk.

According to the Flight Trader 24 Flight Tracking Site, about 1,350 flights are scheduled to land or leave on Friday from Heathrow and its terminal scenes.

Heathrow, one of the world’s most busy airports, usually get 230,000 passengers a day and 83 million per year.

Gatwick said he would accept landing some flights to Heathrow.

Others diverted to European airports, Shannon, Southwest Ireland, Frankfurt and Paris-Charles de Galle.

Four passengers from a French flight appeared to be tired of their long plane after traveling from Cape Town in South Africa to Hethro.

They should travel to good, but there are no planes from Gatwick to South City France.

The group ran to get the bus and said that there was no more information about what to do.

Pakistanis Muhammad Khalil, 28, Bracelia time from 2:30 am at London Padington Station) for alternative flights to Pakistan.

To date, it is not successful so Heathrow UK’s main airport to international long-range international flights.

“I am trying to find another flight from Gatwick or Stansted airport, but I can’t do it,” he said.

Khalil plans to meet with his wife five months later, planning the trip three months ago.

“I spent a wealth of tickets and everything. I had to ask for a day of work at work,” Khalil told AFP.

“You can’t imagine how stressful it is to me,” he said.

Kallam Burton, who was born in South England, was arrested at the New York airport after visiting his girlfriend on his 21st birthday.

He said his flight was scheduled for 15 hours late through his social networks, “he was very tired and disappointed.”

“We’re already on the plane when we know about the fire,” he said. He said, “We’re on the plane for an hour before the flight is canceled.”

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