HAHA. This makes me laugh....13 cms seriously brits? lol. Us Canadians get snow all the time and do you hear of flights being delayed due to 13 cm? Every year there's something like this at Heathrow. Think they'd learn.
I was in Luton, UK last year when they got hit with 9" of snow. The airport closed when the snow hit 2". Everything just stops! They do not have the means to deal with it. Hope all those folks make it out before Christmas!!
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Didn't Heathrow (or BAA I suppose) get bought by a Spanish consortium a few years ago? I'd be interested to see where all the revenue is going. The snow snowploughs used at YYC cost a few million bucks a piece, so I don't think an extra 500k quid is going to help next winter.
HighDreams wrote:Us Canadians get snow all the time and do you hear of flights being delayed due to 13 cm?
Only in Vancouver. The moment a single snowflake falls every car is off the road and people gather around their snow removal equipment like scared, confused chimps.
That stuff is wet and heavy. it is not like the stuff calgary gets, Maybe it is a bit like what calgary gets in May!
heavy slop. it would not be much fun in toronto with that stuff.
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HAHA. This makes me laugh....13 cms seriously brits? lol. Us Canadians get snow all the time and do you hear of flights being delayed due to 13 cm? Every year there's something like this at Heathrow. Think they'd learn.
I seem to recall YVR and YYZ having trouble this time last year getting flights out. running out of deice fluid and all in all it being a shit show. AC was only operating their widebody's WS got a slap on the pee pee for deicing at the gate. might have been 2008 but regardless Canada has the ability to @#$! up airport operations just like the british
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Panama Jack wrote:I'm afraid I will have to agree with aviator2010
Oddly enough when this was going on there was a soccer game on the TV, you could see how much snow they had cleared off the field off past the sidelines to make it clean and green. Obviously the Brits have the capability to move large ammounts of snow when it matters...
Clearing all the football (soccer) stadiums of course!
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The problem is that for as long as I lived in England (from the 1980s up to 2006) there was never really any snowfall. One or two years we got maybe an inch, if that, but most years it either didn't snow at all or there was half a cm or so.
However apparently in the last 2-3 years there has been a lot of snow falling (more than the previous 20 years put together), and of course noone knows how to deal with it. Maybe they will prepare for it next year.
Same thing happened in Vancouver 2 years ago when I lived there, everything ground to a halt!
I don't think there are many countries in the world that do snow removal and deicing at airports better than we do here in Canada. Funny thing, about two weeks ago, I was talking to a lady who works on the accounting side of my job. She was telling me what we spent on deice fluid last year, and how prominent a line it was on the budget. I don't think she's grumbling about it now!!!
