Air traffic at London's Heathrow Airport remained snarled
Aug. 13, 2006

Three days after authorities uncovered an alleged plot to blow up airliners over the Atlantic and imposed tight restrictions on what passengers can carry aboard flights, air traffic at London's Heathrow Airport remained snarled Sunday, with airlines canceling as many as 30 percent of their flights.

Most of the cancellations at the world's busiest international airport were limited to short-haul flights, but departures of long-haul flights were delayed for hours.

That meant inconvenience at best for nearly all of the almost 200,000 passengers who pass daily through the airport and for the airport workers.

"Our staff are understandably very, very stretched at the moment," Heathrow CEO Tony Douglas of the British Airports Authority (BAA) said. Airport officials warned that air travel will remain grim Monday, when as many as 20 percent of flights from the airport were expected to be canceled.

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