London has five airports serving the capital and towns nearby. Capacity is stretched, especially at Heathrow whose two runways each measure almost four kilometres in length, while the airport ...

Heathrow, one of the world’s busiest airports, was brought to a complete standstill Friday by a huge fire in an electrical substation in a nearby London suburb, plunging the airport and ...

Some flights resumed on Friday evening, and the London-area airport expects to run a full operation on Saturday. The fire, which was reported just after 11 p.m. local time on Thursday ...