Heathrow fire cost airport tens of millions of pounds, says CEO | Heathrow airport

The executive manager said that the transformer center, which closed Heathrow in March for almost a day, costs the airport for “tens of millions” pounds.

Thomas Woldbye, who gave the first public estimate of Hub about the invoice from Blaze, said that heathrow decided whether he will follow the national grid as the energy regulator’s findings.

Heathrow was criticized for a lack of flexibility when more than 270,000 passengers travel, fire and power outage stops or stopping their departure on March 21.

“He would like to see my personal role play differently,” he said, sleeping during the night with his silent phone.

A report by the National Energy System operator found that the fire was caused by a prevented error known in the North Hyde transformer center and inadequate action to detect the problems identified in 2018. Ofgem launched an investigation.

Woldbye said that Heathrow will invest in accordance with the airlines to increase the physical flexibility of the airport. ”

Comments showed that heathrow’s passenger numbers reached a record level, but in the first half of the year, the snow fell one -third and emerged in six months – 30 June with 39.9 million journeys.

Woldbye said that the decline in the pre -tax profits fell to £ 203 million, “as a result of higher interest rates,“ primarily financing costs fell to higher costs.

This month, Heathrow offered a five -year investment plan to the Civil Aviation Authority to improve its facilities and increase a passenger with a passenger of approximately £ 5. After pointing out the support to restart the controversial plan of Chancellor Rachel Reeves, the Airport will offer more plans to the government for a third runway next week.

Woldbye said: “If we meet the needs of customers, and I think it will cost money in capacity. Heathrow is a very space limited airport. There are two or three times more passengers per square meter than our competitors in Europe. It is not easy to create additional capacity and therefore costly.”

He said that the runway would not operate until 2035 and the airport will continue carefully. “The government wanted input. If the customers are not clear, they want it, if the country is not clear, why should we do that?”

The shipment is expected to take action in new flight routes and planning reform before making major investments, but it will include a “basic plan ına that requires great work and deviations to the M25, the most busy highway of the UK, in its last repetition that will increase the number of flights in Heathrow up to 50%.

However, he added: “I think it is very important for the country, because I think we are behind the aviation capacity in the London region and we will continue to do it for a while. To ensure that this is successful, we need to create both the airlines and the right conditions to the airport. Will Heathrow survive without a third title?