A plane carrying only luggage flew out of Heathrow Airport after the travel hub cancelled thousands of flights and a US airline was forced to improvise to reunite passengers with their possessions.
Delta Air Lines used the Airbus SE A330-200 to fly home 1,000 items of luggage after Heathrow put a cap on passengers and cancelled thousands of trips, including one by the US company.
Delta’s “creative solution” came after the regularly scheduled London-to-Detroit Flight 17 on July 11 was