{"id":594202,"date":"2026-08-15T16:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T16:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/594202\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T16:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T16:10:08","slug":"heathrow-airport-warns-passengers-not-to-travel-by-road-after-flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/594202\/","title":{"rendered":"Heathrow Airport warns passengers not to travel by road after flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heathrow Airport has warned passengers against travelling to two of its terminals by road after flooding.<\/p>\n<p>Road access is blocked to Terminals Two and Three after the airport\u2019s central terminal area was flooded \u2013 forcing ongoing road closures, it said.<\/p>\n<p>People have been asked to leave extra time to complete their journeys, and to use the Heathrow Express, Elizabeth Line, and Piccadilly Line, or park and ride services at Terminals Four and Five.<\/p>\n<p>The disruption has hit passengers amid the school summer holidays, which sees hundreds of thousands of customers pass through the airport at peak times.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/x.com\/HeathrowAirport\/status\/2088485762069147842?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/p>\n<p>A statement on Heathrow Airport\u2019s website said: \u201cFlooding in the central terminal area has resulted in on-going road closures restricting access to Terminals 2 and 3.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPassengers travelling to or from either of these terminals today must not travel by road.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPassengers are strongly advised to use Heathrow Express, Elizabeth Line and Piccadilly Line rail services where possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny passengers that must travel by car must use Park and Ride, head to Terminals 4 or 5 and take free rail services from there, or change at local rail stations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease allow extra time for your journeys. Our teams are working to resolve the situation as quickly as possible, we apologise for any disruption caused.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heathrow Airport has warned passengers against travelling to two of its terminals by road after flooding. Road access&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-594202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}