From London to Denpasar, flights around the world are being delayed and rescheduled.
London Heathrow Airport (above) will be closed all day Friday as emergency services deal with a significant fire in the vicinity, local media reported.
All flights in and out have been cancelled or diverted after a fire at a nearby substation caused a major power outage.
In Bali, meanwhile, flights have been cancelled due to a volcano erupting.
"Passengers are advised not to travel to the airport and should contact their airline for further information. We apologise for the inconvenience," Heathrow Airport said on Facebook.
At least 120 flights bound for Heathrow have been diverted, flight tracking website FlightRadar24 recorded.
Flights were to land at nearby airports, including Gatwick.
Meanwhile, travellers have been stranded after flights to and from Bali were cancelled and delayed due to volcanic ash caused by the eruption of Mount Lewotobi on the south-eastern part of the remote Indonesian island of Flores.
The volcano was sending rocks, lava and ash about nine kilometres into the sky, Indonesia's Centre for Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation said.
Visitors and tourists were ordered to maintain an eight-kilometre distance from the volcano.
"Passengers are advised not to travel to the airport and should contact their airline for further information. We apologise for the inconvenience," Heathrow Airport said on Facebook.
At least 120 flights bound for Heathrow have been diverted, flight tracking website FlightRadar24 recorded.
Flights were to land at nearby airports, including Gatwick.
Meanwhile, travellers have been stranded after flights to and from Bali were cancelled and delayed due to volcanic ash caused by the eruption of Mount Lewotobi on the south-eastern part of the remote Indonesian island of Flores.
The volcano was sending rocks, lava and ash about nine kilometres into the sky, Indonesia's Centre for Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation said.
Visitors and tourists were ordered to maintain an eight-kilometre distance from the volcano.
There is also a threat of rain-induced lava floods in rivers that originate at the mountain's peak.
As of Friday morning "several international flights had been cancelled, six of them Jetstar flights bound to Australia and one Air Asia flight to Kuala Lumpur,” Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport spokesperson, Andadina Dyah, said in a statement.
Several other flights - domestic and international and including to Thailand, Singapore and Australia - had been delayed.
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