Like the airport, but with a different ending.
Amazing Covid-esque like scenes at Europe’s busiest airport this morning, as a fire at a nearby substation crashed the power to the whole place, necessitating its closure for the day.
It’s like a plane-free ghost town there at the moment:
Especially when you compare it to other normally-running European airports like Schiphol:
or Frankfurt:
The later local flights from Cape Town, which set off yesterday evening, but then found that they had nowhere to land, have diverted to Barcelona and Madrid.
Buenos días, señor.
I mean, lucky them. The other flight ended up at Gatwick.
Eww.
The flights that were due to come down from LHR to Cape Town made it out before the whole gemors, and – if all goes well – should be able to leave on time tonight. But obviously, the flights which were due to depart from Heathrow to Cape Town this evening will now, not.
We’re not going to have a lot of influence on the global repositioning of the planes from the 1,400 flights that will be affected. But the knock-on effect for tourists wanting to EsCape Town tomorrow will be tangible.
Oh no. We’re going to have to stay another day or two rather than going back to London.
Heartbreaking for them.