‘Total chaos’ at Heathrow as airport orders 30 flights to be cancelled

Airline passengers hit out at the ‘total chaos’ at Heathrow on Thursday morning after the airport ordered flights to be cancelled because it could not handle them (Steve Parsons/PA)

Airline passengers hit out at the “total chaos” at Heathrow on Thursday morning after the airport ordered flights to be cancelled because it could not handle them.

Thousands of travellers were disrupted by a rare “schedule intervention” which led to the scrapping of 30 flights during the morning peak.