Several arriving and departing flights between cities across Canada and London’s Heathrow Airport have been cancelled after an overnight fire caused a power outage and forced the British airport to close for the day.
As of early Friday, Toronto’s Pearson airport listed at least five scheduled arriving flights from Heathrow as cancelled, as well as two departing flights. Airports in Vancouver and Montreal also listed multiple cancelled flights.
Those flights were among at least 1,300 flights to and from Heathrow that have been affected by the closure and have been diverted or cancelled, according to flight tracking service FlightRadar 24.
Heathrow said Thursday that a fire at an electrical substation that supplies power to the airport caused the outage. The London Fire Brigade said the fire was contained but firefighters would remain on scene throughout Friday….