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Fliers in Europe Face Delays After Multi-Airport Cyberattack

Heathrow, Berlin, Brussels airports among those seeing issues with check-in, boarding systems

(Newser) - A cyberattack targeting check-in and boarding systems has disrupted air traffic and caused delays at several of Europe's major airports, officials said Saturday. The main airport in Brussels reported that the attack means that only manual check-in and boarding was possible there, and that the incident was having a...

Report: Heathrow Emergency Was Entirely Avoidable

Report links fire to a fault detected in 2018

(Newser) - How much chaos can an instance of deferred maintenance cause? The UK's National Grid is finding out. A fire that shut down London's Heathrow Airport for more than 16 hours in March has been traced to a transformer fault first flagged by the local power provider seven...

Airport Boss Slept Through Emergency

Heathrow chief executive's phone was on silent mode as blackout shut down airport

(Newser) - When a power blackout hit Europe's busiest airport in March, its chief executive was at home, asleep—with his phone in silent mode. Thomas Woldbye didn't find out about the Heathrow Airport shutdown until around seven hours after it began. A review of the incident found that Woldbye...

The World's 10 Busiest Airports
The World's 10 Busiest Airports
Apr 21, 2025 11:46 AM CDT

The World's 10 Busiest Airports

The US counts 4 in their ranks

(Newser) - Some 9.5 billion passengers hopped a flight on planet Earth last year, and Airports Council International World takes a look at which airports handled the most. With traffic up 8.8% over 2023, the 10 busiest airports accounted for 9% of those passengers—a whopping 855 million. While most...

Hugh Grant Slams 'Creepy' Encounter at Heathrow

Actor says immigration officer put his kids on the spot, asked 'intrusive' questions about their parents

(Newser) - Hugh Grant may have just taken a creepy star turn in the 2024 thriller Heretic, but now the UK actor is accusing immigration officials at England's largest airport of being the creepy ones, reports People . "Just came through Heathrow with wife and children," Grant posted on X...

Europe's Busiest Air Hub 'Fully Operational' Again

UK's Heathrow was shut down by fire at electrical substation

(Newser) - London Heathrow Airport said it was "fully operational" on Saturday, after an almost daylong closure sparked by an electrical substation fire. But airlines warned that severe disruption will last for days as they scramble to relocate planes and crews and get travelers to their destinations. The airport's boss said...

It's a Small Sign of Progress at Heathrow

8 British Airways flights will depart Friday evening

(Newser) - The situation appears to be improving at Heathrow, which had originally been expected to remain shut for the entirety of Friday following a fire at a nearby electricity substation that killed the airport's power. The BBC reports British Airways has received the green light to go ahead with eight...

Chaos as Fire Shuts Down Heathrow for Entirety of Friday

More than 1K flights to, from airport have been affected

(Newser) - Britain's Heathrow Airport was closed for the day Friday after a fire knocked out its power, disrupting flights for hundreds of thousands of passengers at Europe's busiest travel hub. At least 1,350 flights to and from the London airport were affected, including several from US cities that...

Flight Delayed for 'Extraordinary' Reason

Punches were allegedly thrown in Heathrow airport over whether one would remove her hat

(Newser) - Two American women reportedly got in a fist fight at London's Heathrow Airport on Monday after one took offense to the other's red MAGA hat. The incident began as the women were preparing to board a British Airways flight to Austin, Texas. One women didn't like the...

These Wasps Love Planes, Could Bring Them Down

Airports employing insecticide, Pitot tube covers to deter keyhole wasp nests

(Newser) - There are numerous examples of birds colliding with planes in incidents that prove deadly for human passengers, hence why airports use various methods to deter fowl. Now, several airports are working to deter a smaller, airborne pest that also proves a deadly threat: wasps. As the Wall Street Journal reports,...

UK Set to Solve Common Carry-on Gripe

3D screening could be the end of tiny bottles of toiletries in clear plastic bags

(Newser) - Putting small containers of liquids in plastic bags could soon be a thing of the past for airline passengers in Britain after the government announced plans Sunday to introduce 3D screening equipment for carry-on luggage at all major airports. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said in a statement that the new...

Apparent Stowaway Falls From Airliner Over London

Body lands in south London garden

(Newser) - A man believed to have stowed away on a Kenya Airways flight fell from the landing gear to a London garden Sunday, police say, per the BBC . After his body was found, a bag, water, and food were found in the landing gear compartment of the plane when it landed...

Explosive Devices Found at 3 London Transport Hubs

They were relatively small, and no travel disruptions resulted

(Newser) - London police are investigating the discovery of explosive devices at three transport hubs around the city on Tuesday, reports the Guardian . The good news is that the devices have been contained and all were relatively small—"capable of igniting an initially small fire," say police, per the AP...

Drone Closes World's 2nd Busiest Airport
Drone Closes World's
2nd Busiest Airport
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Jan 8, 2019 2:18 PM CST

Drone Closes World's 2nd Busiest Airport

London's Heathrow temporarily stops flights

(Newser) - London had another airport-drone mess on its hands Tuesday, but this time the problem was much bigger. Heathrow Airport stopped all departing flights for roughly an hour because of a drone sighting, reports the BBC . A rep for the airport described it as a "precautionary measure." Last month,...

Tens of Thousands Affected by British Airways IT Failure

All airline's flights canceled out of London's largest airports

(Newser) - British Airways canceled all flights out of London's two largest airports Saturday—the first day of a spring bank holiday weekend in Britain—affecting tens of thousands of travelers. The problem stems from British Airway's IT system, the entirety of which apparently crashed worldwide, the AP reports. According...

Lindsay Lohan: I Was Profiled While Wearing Headscarf

LiLo says the incident happened at London's Heathrow Airport

(Newser) - Lindsay Lohan claims she was "racially profiled" while wearing a headscarf at London's Heathrow Airport, the AP reports. The actress told a British talk show that she was stopped while traveling to New York. She said an airport worker "opened my passport and saw 'Lindsay Lohan'...

Mom Has Gallons of Breast Milk Confiscated at Heathrow

Jessica Coakley Martinez didn't take it lightly

(Newser) - Ever sighed at having to toss out a bottle of water at airport security? Then consider Jessica Coakley Martinez, who was forced to throw away almost four gallons of breast milk at London's Heathrow Airport, the Washington Post reports. "This wasn’t some rare bottle of wine or...

Drone May Have Hit Plane Landing at Heathrow

British Airways plane landed safely; London police investigating

(Newser) - In what the UK's Civil Aviation Authority says would be "a totally unacceptable" first, a British Airways plane landing at Heathrow appears to have been hit by a drone on Sunday, the BBC reports. The Airbus A320 coming into London from Geneva had 132 passengers and five crew...

American Airlines Jet Makes U-Turn Over Illness

One flight attendant 'literally just fainted'

(Newser) - An American Airlines flight bound for Los Angeles had to return to London on Wednesday after passengers and crew fell ill on board. One flight attendant "literally just fainted ... just fell forward, put her hand out and hit the floor," one of 188 passengers on board tells ABC...

Airport Confiscates Alyssa Milano's Breast Milk

Because the actress didn't have a baby with her?

(Newser) - Upon landing at Heathrow Airport yesterday, Alyssa Milano had the 10 ounces of breast milk she'd pumped on the plane taken away. She tweeted that officials told her they could only "let the pumped milk through if I had the baby with me," adding, "Why would...

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