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LONDON - Tens of thousands of passengers headed home for their Christmas holidays overnight after three days of chaos at British airports caused by fog.
By mid-afternoon Saturday local time the fog had largely lifted. British Airways, which has suffered the bulk of the cancellations, resumed all domestic flights from London's Heathrow airport at midday.
BA said it hoped to run 95 per cent of services on Saturday and a full service on Sunday, Christmas Eve.
On Thursday, 350 flights were cancelled and a similar number were stopped on Friday, said BAA which runs Heathrow and six other British airports.
There are some 1300 departures and arrivals a day from Heathrow, one of the world's busiest international airports. The airline said it used bigger planes to help ease the backlog.
- REUTERS
