Heathro Airport in London at the Electricity Center after a fire at the fire at “fully operational”

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Heathro Airport in London was closed for 18 hours on Friday. However, airlines have warned that the disruption may continue for several days as they strive to replace flights, groups and passengers for canceled trips.

Heathro’s Managing Director praised the airport’s response, but frustrated passengers, airlines and politicians questioned how a fire could be shut down Europe.

Heathro said, “We have hundreds of extra colleagues in our terminals, and they have joined the airport today to facilitate the crossing of 10,000 passengers,” he said.

British Airways, the largest airline of the airport, plans to run 85% of its 600 regular flights on Saturday. The airline said it was “very complicated” to restore such a big incident.

The fire introduced a 3.2 km brush from Heathro, cutting the airport’s electricity and more than 60,000 assets. On Friday, more than 1 300 flights were canceled, and about 200 000 people retained.

Residents in London’s western zone said they had heard a strong explosion and found firepall and dense smoke. Firefighters controlled the fire in seven hours, but Heathro was closed for almost 18 hours. Some flights were resumed at the end of Friday.

Officials did not consider the fire to be suspicious. London firefighters are investigating the sub -power system.

This disruption has caused criticism of the British infrastructure that is not ready for emergency situations. The government has said that a thorough investigation is needed to avoid similar incidents in the future.

Heathro’s Managing Director Thomas Voltby supported the airport response. “Remember that the situation has not been created at Heathro Airport,” he told the British media. “The airport was not closed for several days. We closed for hours.”

He explained that Heathro’s existence was working as planned, but using more energy like a small city was not enough to work with the entire airport. “Most airports operate this way,” he said, in the same situation, similar disruptions occur elsewhere.

Heathro, one of the world’s hectic airports, received 83.9 million passengers last year. The sudden shutdown landed passengers of about 120 flights in different cities and even different countries.

This is one of the worst disruptions since the Iceland volcano erupted in 2010, spreading the ashes and ending the European flights for several days.