Queues, abandoned baggage and headline reports this weekend have shown that, following incidents in 2018, 2019 and 2022, Manchester Airport appears to have failed to learn lessons from previous power cuts and delays. Yesterday, chaos reigned after there ‘had been a “fault” with a cable on the airport’s site, which sent a surge of power […]
Electricity prices in the UK were already increasing because of a combination of the rising cost of fossil fuels, outages of nuclear power plants and an unseasonable shortage of wind. However, the sudden shock of a fire at a National Grid site in Ashford, Kent shutting down a 2GW interconnection with France sent prices rocketing
My attention was captured yesterday by an interview on the Radio 4 Today Programme with the CEO of National Grid. In the course of explaining the background to the widespread power outages last Friday, he first described the almost simultaneous loss of two producers of this scale as “rare, unique” and later as “pretty unique”.
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Hundreds of passengers faced delays and disruption on Tuesday evening when Terminal 2 at Manchester Airport lost power. Power was restored within a few hours but, whilst the power cut lasted, passengers could not check in and planes could not be unloaded. Luckily, due to the time of day, it was possible to divert some
Thousands of air passengers around the world were left stranded last Monday after a power cut in Atlanta caused Delta to suspend flights across the US, Japan, Italy and the UK. Flights resumed six hours later but more than 740 flights had been cancelled and delays persisted as the backlog of passengers was cleared. Had it
