India, March 22 -- West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee's trip to the UK had to be cut short by almost a day as her flight had to be rescheduled after a fire knocked out the power supply to of Heathrow airport.

The chief minister was initially scheduled to fly to London on Friday night. Later it was rescheduled to Saturday morning. She finally left on Saturday evening.

A fire at the Europe's busiest airport stranded tens of thousands of passengers, causing travel turmoil worldwide.

"As you know we had a flight in the morning but it had to be cancelled. This has disrupted the entire schedule. The trip has become very hectic, including two days of travel," Banerjee told the media at the NSCBI airport in Kolkata.

"There is no direc...