Disruption hasn’t stretched to flights, but it is affecting car park userspublished at 12:13 GMT
Harry Fell
Reporting from Heathrow Airport
All appears normal on arrival to Heathrow Terminal 3 at 10:45 this morning, apart from some queues getting in and out of the train station. There’s low, grey cloud, passengers wheeling baggage and the sound of planes taking off and landing.
It’s the multi-storey car park opposite where things look different.
The entrances are closed, there’s no traffic passing by, and there are queues of emergency vehicles parked outside.
The disruption hasn’t stretched to flights, according to airline staff and departure boards, which show things running normally – but it has affected those needing to use the car park. Although the car park has just reopened, there has been no free access
to it for over two hours This has delayed people returning to their vehicles.
I spoke to a member of flight crew who had just landed on a plane from Bengalaru in southern India. The staff park and ride bus that was due to pick them up is not coming.
Despite being on their feet in light drizzle after a flight of over 10 hours, they are taking it on the chin. It’s messed up their day, they’re desperate to get home, but they say emergency services have protocols to follow.
“If this is the worst it gets, we’re doing alright,” they say.
