British Airways will get 32 new Boeing planes, in a deal worth nearly $13 billion, its parent company announced on Friday, a day after U.S. officials teased a big order was coming for America’s largest plane maker. IAG, which owns British Airways and other European airlines, said it had ordered the Boeing aircraft as well…
Throngs of passengers anxious to get on their way surged into Heathrow Airport in London on Saturday, a day after a power blackout closed the airport and forced thousands to delay their trips. As information boards flickered back to life, an army of extra airport staff members, dressed in purple, sprang into action to help…
Heathrow Airport in London, one of the world’s busiest air hubs, was set to resume a full day of service on Saturday. But after a fire at an electrical substation halted operations for most of Friday, global travel remained disrupted. The police were still investigating what had caused the fire at the substation in western…
As Heathrow Airport, Britain’s busiest travel hub, shut down on Friday because of a nearby fire and power outage, airlines told thousands of travelers not travel to the airport and to check online for updates. About 80 airlines operate at Heathrow, and they were diverting inbound flights to others airports in Britain, elsewhere in Europe…
Phillip Kizun found himself having to improvise on Friday as he tried to get from London to Dublin, typically a routine trip. After finding out that his flight from Heathrow Airport had been canceled, Mr. Kizun, 58, took a train to Wales and then a ferry from the coastal town of Holyhead to the Irish…
Warren Hu had just settled into his flight from New York to London, where he planned to visit his girlfriend, when he became one of the thousands of passengers whose travel was thrown into disarray early Friday because of a fire near Heathrow Airport. The plane carrying Mr. Hu, a college student in New York,…