Inquiry into Heathrow delays coming

LONDON — Travel problems eased in Britain yesterday after days of snow-related delays, with most services running normally at Heathrow Airport and on Eurostar trains. Across the Irish Sea, however, heavy snow shut Dublin Airport for several hours.

The Irish airport suspended flights in the morning but reopened in the afternoon.

Cleanup efforts in London were aided by a slight rise in temperature that melted much of the ice. Heathrow Airport said 90 percent of flights were operating.

Heathrow’s Spanish owner, BAA Ltd., announced an external inquiry into the airport’s handling of the heavy snowfall, which left hundreds of thousands of passengers stranded in the run-up to Christmas. BAA’s chief executive, Colin Matthews, said a panel will examine what went wrong and make recommendations to the company.