Heathrow executives are defending their response to a fire that shut down Europe’s busiest air hub for almost a day.

Almost 20 adults and children from Jacksonville had their mission trip unexpectedly extended after thousands of flights were canceled at Heathrow Airport in London due to a power outage. The outage was caused by a fire at a nearby electricity substation.

The British government has ordered an investigation into the country's “energy resilience” after an electrical substation fire shut Heathrow Airport for almost a day.

Hundreds of flights to and from London’s Heathrow Airport were canceled after a fire at a nearby substation knocked out power to Europe’s busiest airport.

Heathrow Airport is stirring back to life, with flights slowly resuming about 18 hours after an inferno at an electrical substation caused a power outage that shuttered Europe’s busiest air travel hub and left 200,00 passengers stranded.

A fire at an electrical substation knocked out power to Heathrow Airport for most of Friday, forcing Europe’s busiest hub to shut down for roughly 18 hours, causing widespread cancellations and rerouting headaches, and stranding roughly 200,000 passengers.

U.K. Treasury chief Rachel Reeves says that the new Labour government is backing the construction of third runway at London’s Heathrow Airport.

A Virgin Atlantic jet collided with another plane while it was being towed at Heathrow Airport on Saturday, but there were no reports of injuries.

The British government will grant extensions to several large U.K. airports unable to meet the June 1 deadline to fully install new scanning technology.

The daughter of a long-detained human rights activist in Bahrain says she has been diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma and again called for his release.

Security guards at London’s Heathrow Airport will escalate their strike action over pay into the busy summer months.

British Airways has canceled dozens of flights due to computer problems in a rocky kickoff to Europe's summer travel season.

British Airways says it’s suspending sales of short-haul flights from London’s Heathrow Airport for two weeks.

Emirates Air has rejected a demand by London’s Heathrow Airport for airlines to cut summer flights in a bid to ease travel disruptions.

London’s Heathrow Airport is capping daily passenger numbers for the summer and telling airlines to stop selling tickets as it steps up efforts to quell travel chaos caused by soaring travel demand and staff shortages.

London’s Heathrow Airport has apologized to passengers whose travels have been disrupted by staff shortages.

A major British airport is warning passengers to expect the delays plaguing travel to continue for months.

British travelers faced more disruptions during the Easter holiday break as two major airlines, British Airways and easyJet, canceled about 100 flights Wednesday.

Britain says all remaining coronavirus measures for travelers, including passenger locator forms and the requirement for unvaccinated people be tested for COVID-19 before and after their arrivals, will end Friday.

Vaccinated travelers can now enter Britain without taking any coronavirus tests.

The travel industry is lobbying Washington for changes it thinks will get more people on airplanes and staying in hotels.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says his government will remove coronavirus testing requirements for vaccinated people arriving in England.

The British government said it is to relax travel rules further next week, a move that will open up many long-distance holiday destinations to travelers for the first time since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic a year and half ago.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he will “shift heaven and earth” to bring more Afghans to the U.K. once an airlift from Kabul airport ends in the coming hours.

Britain has opened its borders to fully vaccinated travelers from the U.S. and the European Union.

Fully vaccinated travelers from the United States and much of Europe will be able to enter Britain without quarantining starting next week.

U.K. border officers have reportedly been directed to stop routinely checking whether travelers from many countries have tested negative for COVID-19.

A terminal at London's Heathrow Airport that was mothballed because of the coronavirus pandemic has been reopened for passengers arriving from high-risk countries.

The British government is to ban international arrivals from four more countries — Bangladesh, Kenya, Pakistan and the Philippines — amid concerns over new virus variants.

FILE - In this Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017, file photo, British Airways planes are parked at Heathrow Airport in London. The parent company of British Airways and Iberia on Friday, Feb. 26, 2021 said it lost 6.9 billion euros ($8.3 billion) last year as the pandemic caused a near-total collapse in international air traffic, and called for digital passes to help revive travel. IAG's after-tax loss compared with a profit of 1.7 billion euros the year before. Its revenue slumped 70% to 7.8 billion euros ($9.4 billion). We’re calling for international common testing standards and the introduction of digital health passes to reopen our skies safely.”

Passengers arriving at London’s Heathrow Airport were escorted by security guards to buses that took them to nearby hotels. Some of the travelers said they had tried and failed to make it to Britain before Monday to avoid the quarantine. AdVisiting a London vaccination center on Monday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson praised the “unbelievable effort” by scientists, medics, pharmacists, members of the military and volunteers that had achieved Europe’s fastest vaccine rollout. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the vaccination drive is now being extended to people over 65 and those with underlying health conditions. Britain has had Europe’s worst coronavirus outbreak, with more than 117,000 deaths, though Infections and deaths are now falling steadily after more than a month of national lockdown.

Fauci won a $1 million award from the Israeli Dan David Foundation for courageously defending science during the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool, File)TEL AVIV, Israel — Dr. Anthony Fauci has won the $1 million Dan David Prize for “defending science” and advocating for vaccines now being administered worldwide to fight the coronavirus pandemic. The shots were supplied by Pfizer, which has a contract to sell 10 million vaccines to Colombia. The U.K.’s rapid rollout of coronavirus vaccines to the most at-risk groups has also helped. The good news: Many of the new COVID-19 vaccines are made with new, flexible technology that’s easy to upgrade.

British officials say everyone arriving in the country from coronavirus hotspots will have to spend 10 days in hotel quarantine starting Feb. 15 in a bid to stop new variants of the virus reaching the country. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)LONDON – Everyone arriving in the U.K. from countries identified as coronavirus hotspots will have to spend 10 days in hotel quarantine starting Feb. 15 in a bid to stop new virus variants reaching the country, the government said Friday. But authorities are facing criticism for delays in implementing the policy, which was first announced in late January. The U.K. says it has sought advice from Australia and New Zealand, where quarantine hotels have been used to contain COVID-19. The British government aims to give a shot to 15 million people by Feb. 15, including everyone over 70 and those with underlying health conditions.

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson reacts while leading a virtual press conference on the Covid-19 pandemic, inside 10 Downing Street in central London Tuesday Jan. 26, 2021. The government said 100,162 people have died in the pandemic after testing positive for the virus, including 1,631 new deaths reported Tuesday. U.K. statistics agencies say that the number of deaths registered that mention COVID-19 on the death certificate is more than 108,000. British authorities are banking on a successful vaccination program to help the country suppress the outbreak and ease the lockdown. People arriving in the U.K. from abroad also must show they have tested negative for COVID-19.

Dozens of British residents in Spain were refused travel because airlines refused to take in as proof of residency documents used until the United Kingdom's departure from the European Union at midnight on Dec. 31, 2020. Airlines refused documents that before Brexit had been valid proof of the Britons' status as residents in Spain, Italy and Germany, although Spanish authorities claimed that the issue had been resolved by mid-Sunday. Around 300,000 British citizens are registered as permanent residents in Spain, although before Brexit, many more had been living full or part-time in the country without officially registering. Spain has been rolling out a new system to register permanent foreign residents called TIE but it’s suffering a backlog due to the high number of requests. “This should not be happening,” said the U.K. embassy in Spain said in a Facebook post.

The airline says the pilot program will offer voluntary testing starting Nov. 25 in partnership with American Airlines for passengers flying to Heathrow from New York, Los Angeles and Dallas. Passengers will be tested 72 hours before departure, on arrival at Heathrow and again three days after arrival. Passengers who test positive will be able to rebook their flights free of charge, BA said. Heathrow Airport said last month that it had lost its place as Europe’s busiest air hub as France and Germany relaxed quarantine rules and implemented testing regimes. BA said more airlines may join the testing program in the coming weeks.

LONDON – London’s Heathrow Airport says it has lost its place as Europe’s busiest air hub to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris after the COVID-19 pandemic grounded flights and Britain failed to approve passenger testing that could scale back quarantine requirements. Heathrow said Wednesday that it expects passenger numbers to fall more than previously forecast this year and rebound more slowly in 2021. The airport now expects to serve 22.6 million passengers this year and 37.1 million in 2021, down from a June forecast of 29.2 million and 62.8 million. Some countries have sought to revive the market by implementing passenger testing regimes that reduce or eliminate the need for quarantines. Revenue plunged 59% to 2.3 billion pounds.

Aircraft G-CIVY, one of the last two British Airways Boeing 747-400 aircraft takes off for its last flight departure from London's Heathrow Airport, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020. The retirement of the fleet was brought forward as a result of the impact the Covid-19 pandemic had on the airline and the aviation sector. It remained the largest commercial aircraft in the world until the Airbus A380 first took to the skies in 2007. More than 1,500 jumbos were produced by Boeing, and it has historically been a commercial success for the manufacturer and the airlines. “It’s a beautiful design, a classic like Concorde, and I often think the upper deck made the 747 look more birdlike.”

FILE - In this file photo dated Monday, June 8, 2020, passengers wearing face masks arrive at London's Heathrow Airport. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)LONDON The traditional British summer getaway to the sun-soaked beaches of the Mediterranean Sea is set to pick up steam Friday as U.K. quarantine restrictions are removed from dozens of countries, including France, Greece and Italy. We probably would have gone later, said Ray Gordge, 64, at Gatwick Airports North Terminal, south of London. The getaway will gather pace over coming days as more holidays and flights come on stream. TUI has said it plans to add more flights and destinations by the end of July to offer a total of 19 destinations from five U.K. airports.

LONDON - On August 25, 1919 the first regular international passenger air service took place between London, England and Paris, France. Clearly international flights have changed a lot in the past 100 years, so let's take a look back at where it all began. Still, 100 years ago, aviation was often the sole realm of brave adventurers and experienced aviators, so the daily London to Paris passenger flight, although it also transported mail and parcels, represented a new era in commercial flying. After all, the first non-stop flight from London to Paris took place only seven years earlier, and the first powered flight took place just 16 years earlier. "Although there were scheduled flights and aviation is developing and growing, it's not massive [...] It's still for the well-off people," he said.

One route stands out from all the rest, the only one to break the billion-dollar barrier: British Airways' service between London Heathrow and New York's JFK. 3, Singapore Airlines' route to Singapore Changi is at No. British Airways: New York JFK -- London Heathrow (Total revenue: $1,159,126,794 / revenue per hour: $27,159)2. Cathay Pacific Airways: Hong Kong International -- London Heathrow (Total revenue: $604,595,063 / revenue per hour: $13,887)9. Air Canada: Vancouver YVR -- Toronto Pearson International (Total revenue: $541,122,509 / revenue per hour: $11,936)The-CNN-Wire & 2019 Cable News Network, Inc., a Time Warner Company.

Bruno Vincent/Getty Images(CNN) - About 4 million ($5 million) worth of gold was seized at London's Heathrow Airport by Border Force officers as part of an international investigation into a suspected South American drugs cartel. Border Force agents at Heathrow Airport subsequently moved in to detain the shipment when it arrived in the UK, based on intelligence provided by the NCA. Nick Jariwalla, Border Force Heathrow director, added that removing large amounts of money or gold from the control of criminal networks "hits them where they feel it most, in the pocket." The NCA and Heathrow's Border Force have previously uncovered large hauls in connection to international drugs trafficking from South America. In 2017, a Heathrow security worker was charged with attempting to import cocaine worth up to 480,000 ($600,120) into the UK from South America.

Worcester1012 via Wikimedia Commons(CNN) - A man was sunbathing in his London garden when a body hit the ground feet away from him. It was a stowaway who fell off a Kenya Airways flight from Nairobi last week as the plane approached London's Heathrow Airport. After sneaking into the wheel well of a plane -- the most common method of stowing away -- they can get crushed when the landing gear starts going in. Many stowaways come from African countriesStowaways have gone undetected and hopped aboard planes in 44 different countries, the FAA said. In 1972, authorities found a frozen body in the wheel well of a flight from San Diego to New York.