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Heathrow chief’s cellphone was on silent as energy lower hearth unfolded, inquiry reveals | UK Information

Editorial Board Published May 28, 2025
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Heathrow’s chief government couldn’t be reached to inform him concerning the airport’s closure after an influence outage as a result of his cellphone was on silent, an inquiry has revealed.

Thomas Woldbye was asleep when chief working officer Javier Echave determined to droop operations at 1.15am on 21 March after a hearth at a substation in west London affected the provision of electrical energy to the positioning, it has emerged.

The airport closed for round 16 hours, cancelling about 1,300 flights and inflicting journey chaos for almost 300,000 passengers.

Heathrow commissioned an inquiry into what occurred, led by former transport secretary Ruth Kelly, who’s an unbiased member on the airport’s board.

The inquiry’s report, revealed on Wednesday, discovered that Mr Woldbye “was not involved” within the choice to droop operations as he was unaware of a number of makes an attempt to succeed in him on account of his cellphone being on silent mode till 6.45am on 21 March.

“Although his phone was on his bedside table, Mr Woldbye reported that it did not alert him to the F24 alarms [to activate emergency procedures] or to Mr Echave’s other calls because the phone had gone into a silent mode, without him being aware it had done so and he was asleep at the time,” the report said.

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How can Heathrow keep away from one other disaster?

Mr Woldbye expressed “his deep regret at not being contactable during the night of the incident”, in keeping with the evaluation.

The inquiry advisable that Heathrow ought to think about having a “second means of contact” to inform key people about essential incidents.

Nevertheless, it additionally discovered that the choice to droop operations was “correctly made” because it was “essential to protect the safety and security of people, as well as the integrity of the airport and the UK border”.

Ms Kelly stated: “The proof confirms that Heathrow made the precise choices in exceptionally troublesome circumstances.

“While the disruption was vital, different decisions on the day wouldn’t have materially modified the result.

“The airport had contingency plans in place, and the report highlights that further planned investment in energy resilience will be key to reducing the impact of any similar events in the future.”

However Nigel Wicking, the chief government of Heathrow Airline Operators’ Committee (AOC), described the report as “back patting” as a result of it didn’t “recognise the significant cost impact” borne by airways.

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Nigel Wicking, Chief Executive, Heathrow Airline Operators' Committee Limited, gives evidence to the House of Commons Transport Select Committee at Portcullis House, London. Picture date: Wednesday April 2, 2025.
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Heathrow bosses had been ‘warned about substation’

He advised MPs on the Transport Choose Committee he had warned Heathrow bosses the ability provide was susceptible lower than every week earlier than the outage.

Heathrow AOC, which has greater than 90 members together with Virgin Atlantic and British Airways, criticised the dealing with of the closure, saying flights might have taken off earlier on Friday and that communication was “appalling”.

The inquiry discovered there “may have been opportunities to open parts of the airport slightly sooner” on 21 March however this “likely would have been only by a maximum of a couple of hours or so”. It began accepting restricted flight arrivals from 4pm and departures from 8pm that day.

Smoke rises from a fire at the North Hyde Electricity Substation.Picture:Smoke rises following the fireplace on the substation in March

As an alternative, he stated he was trying to the complete Nationwide Power System Operator report, anticipated to be launched by the top of June.

A spokesperson for the Heathrow Reimagined marketing campaign group, whose supporters embody British Airways’s proprietor Worldwide Airways Group and Virgin Atlantic, stated: “Classes should be learnt from the closure of Heathrow throughout March’s energy outage, however the inner Kelly Evaluate permits Heathrow to set and choose by its personal requirements.

“It fails to properly tackle the poor contingency planning and years of inefficient spending that left Heathrow vulnerable.”

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