Click to play videoLondon: While security at the various airports across Britain remains stringent, the security threat level has been brought down from "critical" to "severe".
Domestic intelligence service – the MI-5 – said the threat level had been raised to "critical" - the highest of five levels - on Thursday before arresting 24 people who were allegedly plotting to blow up US-bound passenger jets.
Air passengers are still facing disruptions at Heathrow because of new security procedures and one-third of Heathrow in-bound and outbound flights and more than 20 flights from Gatwick airport have been cancelled.
British Airport Authority said these are "unprecedented times" and the "safety and security of the public is the utmost priority" and praised its staff for carrying out a "first class job" during the busiest time of the year.
Passengers were forced to queue in a specially erected tent and outside in the rain as they waited for their flights as they underwent new security procedures.
Meanwhile, the youngest suspect held in the terror investigations has been found t o have an Indian link. Seventeen-year-old Abdul Patel is the youngest amongst the 24 people arrested by Scotland Yard on Thursday.
Patel is the son of a Muslim immigrant from India and his friends claim that his temperament changed from carefree to impetuous when his father Mohammed travelled to Iraq on a Muslim aid mission and never returned home.
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