London Wales airport

[Pegojack]

I joked a few weeks ago that, in order to make Cardiff airport more viable, they ought to persuade Ryanair to rebrand it 'London Wales Airport', and get longhaul tourists to fly in there, then catch the airport bus to Rhoose, and the train to Cardiff Central and on to the smoke. Only one change!
In view of current events, I hope they are putting my plan into action.
I only want £50,000 in marketing fees.

 

[Cooperman]

The groups in charge of contingency planning at both National Grid and Heathrow Airport will be feeling the heat over the coming days and weeks. I have seen a few car plants stop for an hour or two over the years, but closing infrastructure on this scale is different gravy.

 

[Jack2jack]

A. Why hasnt it got it's own sub station
B. Why cant it be switched to another sub station.
C. Why the hell wernt the back up generators capable of running the site.
What an absolute shambles. Circ 5th busiest airport in the world, and this happens. Lessons need to be learnt.(that's the line that'll be trotted out no doubt)
Deary me!

 

[Cooperman]

A. Why hasnt it got it's own sub station
B. Why cant it be switched to another sub station.
C. Why the hell wernt the back up generators capable of running the site.
What an absolute shambles. Circ 5th busiest airport in the world, and this happens. Lessons need to be learnt.(that's the line that'll be trotted out no doubt)
Deary me!

Lessons to be learned, indeed.

One dedicated sub station would not be sufficient, two would be required for redundancy purposes. There are three connected to Heathrow but the changeover from one to another is not like flicking a switch. The on site airport back up was (allegedly) never designed to support the full airport infrastructure, instead the faith was in the back up of the sub station working. One small problem being that it got destroyed at the same time as the primary. Ultimately the risk assessor gambled on the primary not knocking out the back up, and lost.

 

[Jack2jack]

Lessons to be learned, indeed.

One dedicated sub station would not be sufficient, two would be required for redundancy purposes. There are three connected to Heathrow but the changeover from one to another is not like flicking a switch. The on site airport back up was (allegedly) never designed to support the full airport infrastructure, instead the faith was in the back up of the sub station working. One small problem being that it got destroyed at the same time as the primary. Ultimately the risk assessor gambled on the primary not knocking out the back up, and lost.

Well yes, everything is a gamble when trying to save money. I'm amazed that an airport this size can be effectively out of action for more than a few hours, its nuts.

 

[Cooperman]

Well yes, everything is a gamble when trying to save money. I'm amazed that an airport this size can be effectively out of action for more than a few hours, its nuts.

Heathrow is developing a bit of a track record for being on the receiving end. Major air traffic control issue in 2013 (I got stuck in that one), an even bigger ATC issue in summer 2023 and now this. The CEO should be getting organisations like NATS and the National Grid by the balls.

 

[Pentyrchjack]

I suspect this may have been a deliberate act and it's being underplayed to prevent copy cat repeats