(21 Mar 2025)
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New Delhi, India – 21 March 2025
1. Passengers wheeling luggage out of airport after flight to Heathrow was cancelled
2. Various of flight information board showing flights to Heathrow cancelled
3. Vikas Swarup walking out of airport terminal with his luggage
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Vikas Swarup, passenger:
“As soon I went inside to get my boarding pass, they (airlines staff) told us that the flight has been cancelled and there is no flight for next two or three days, that is what. And they said that there is a fire at the Heathrow airport.”
5. Wide of Amarjeet Kaur Jagdev and Satvinder Singh Jagdev talking to other passengers after their flight was cancelled
6. Mid of luggage
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Satvinder Singh Jagdev, 56, passenger:
“Nobody told us. Since 8 o’clock I was here, that ok, your flight has a chance of it being cancelled. So, either Air India had no information for like the past 2, 3 hours that I was there.”
8. Wide of passengers outside airport terminal
9. Kulwinder Singh and his wife pushing their baggage trolleys after their flight was cancelled
10. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Kulwinder Singh, passenger:
“There is a problem in London, Heathrow. That’s why they changed the schedule of flight. Now I got a ticket for 24th (March).”
11. Various of Emma Fulton, who was in India for a wedding with her family, walking with their luggage to go to a hotel
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Emma Fulton, 50, Passenger:
“We had to go to the Air India desk, which was a bit chaotic, but we got there. They changed the flight for four days’ time on the 24th, 7 o’clock in the morning.”
13. Fulton and her family get into lift
14. Various of people at the airport terminal
STORYLINE:
Passengers flying from New Delhi to London faced cancellations on Friday after a fire knocked out power to Heathrow Airport, forcing it to close for the day.
Vikas Swarup, who works in London, said that Air India staff told him that his flight is now rescheduled for Monday.
"As soon I went inside to get my boarding pass, they told us that the flight has been cancelled and there is no flight for next two or three days," he said.
The London Fire Brigade had 10 fire engines and around 70 firefighters worked to control the blaze hours after flames soared into the sky when a transformer at an electrical substation caught fire in west London late Thursday night.
The fire continued to smoulder after daybreak.
At least 1,350 flights to and from Heathrow were affected already, including several from U.S. cities that were cancelled, flight tracking service FlightRadar 24 said.
Several jets were diverted to Gatwick Airport outside London, Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris and Ireland’s Shannon Airport, tracking services showed.
Heathrow is one of the world’s busiest airports for international travel.
It said in a statement it will provide an update on its operations when it has more information on when power will be restored.
AP video by Shonal Ganguly
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