At least 11,000 Italian passengers hit by Heathrow closure

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 21 - Friday's closure of London's Heathrow airport is affecting at least 11,000 Italian passengers, claim company ItaliaRimborso told ANSA.
    It said 56 of the 1,350 flights cancelled after the airport suffered a power outage due to a fire at an electricity substation were to or from Italy.
    It said these regarded connections to Naples, Rome Fiumicino, Florence, Bologna, Venice, and Milan's Linate and Malpensa airports.
    It said that the disruption endured by passengers needing connecting flights from London to reach destinations in Asia and North American was on top of this. (ANSA).