It takes 10 hours to restore key airport systems if they lose power, MPs on the Transport Select Committee were told ...

Greece to protest austerity; strikes in the West Bank and Bangladesh, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Pakistan, Tunisia and Turkey to protest Israel’s genocide in Gaza; police use tear gas ag ...

Reputation moves fast online. One incident, like the Heathrow substation fire in March 2025, can turn operational disruption ...

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 ...

An internal review of the airport’s crisis management plans and its response is being conducted by former transport secretary Ruth Kelly, who is an independent member of Heathrow’s board. The ...

Airports and airlines are probably the most drilled and prepared organisations of the lot, when it comes to crisis response—they have to be by law—yet ...

But in the case of a major crisis or disruptive event, such as when a hub like Heathrow shuts down, the company’s top management along with the heads of its operational departments will hold ...

An internal review of the airport's crisis management plans and its response will be undertaken by former transport secretary Ruth Kelly, who is an independent member of Heathrow's board. More than ...

The Kelly review will analyse the robustness and execution of Heathrow's crisis management plans, the airport's response and how it recovered the operation." The Government is now "closely monitoring ...

The airport chair, Conservative peer Paul Deighton, said: “The Kelly review will analyse all of the relevant material concerning the robustness and execution of Heathrow’s crisis management pl ...

The Kelly review will analyse the robustness and execution of Heathrow's crisis management plans, the airport's response and how it recovered the operation." Responding to shadow transport ...