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Substation fire that shut Heathrow Airport to cost it ‘tens of millions’
WEST LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, JUL 23 – Heathrow Airport closed for nearly 18 hours after a fire caused by a known but unaddressed fault disrupted over 270,000 passenger journeys, costing tens of millions, officials said.
- A substation fire that caused the temporary closure of Heathrow Airport is expected to cost the airport in the 'low tens of millions', according to Chief Executive Thomas Woldbye.
- Over 270,000 air passenger journeys were disrupted by the incident, and Woldbye said the group had 'learnings' to take away, including that he was asleep with his phone on silent when the decision to close the airport was made.
- Woldbye said procedures need to ensure the company can take the right decisions at the right time by the right people, 'whether the captain's on the bridge or not', and denied misjudging what it meant to be the head of one of the world's busiest airports.
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Heathrow boss 'slept during emergency calls' as fire led to airport closure - The Mirror
Heathrow chief executive Thomas Woldbye admitted that it was "frustrating" that he had slept through numerous calls during a substation fire that led to the airport's closure
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