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ronk

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A fella on the TV has just said that he has just flown from Munich airport which had a metre of snow at the side of the runway - all aircraft running on time - What a contrast when he got to Heathrow!
 
Sky news this morning were saying Heathrow was no worse than many other European airports - but I guess they picked specific ones.

Andi.
 
I think Paris suffered quite badly, and Frankfurt was closed for a while.
 
He only mentioned Munich - but if they had a metre at the side it proves that it can be done!
 
Munich is used to it and they have hard winters. Heathrow sees this at most a couple of weeks a year. It's not economically viable to kit up in the same way as Munich.

I will however, be swearing on Thursday night if it's still snarled up as I'm due to fly out again :)
 
Haven't they spent a fortune on kit over the past year tho? It always seems to catch us out every year - they'll run out of excuses one day I think. Airports, railways, roads - all the same !

Incidently it not just the snow that catches out either, Hot weather, cold weather, wet weather dry weather - They all seem to have a dramatic effect.
 
Without weather woes us Brits would have nothing to talk / moan about though :o
 
European flight saftey says in bad weather conditions like we are exeriencing currently the minimum time between flights must be increased (but there are only so many minutes in a day, hense decrease in flights when this happens).
Munich Airport is not a busy airport compaired to the ammount of anual traffic comapired to Heathrow, also Munich operates well with in its capasity. where as more oftern than not Heathrow operates at between 95-99% capacity every day.

Heathrow Airport averages 1350 flights per day (40,194,949 total passengers 2012)
Munich Airport averages 550 flights per day (21,132,657 total passengers 2012)


Heathrow should be increased or another airport should be built to solve this,
but as soon as you mention that people are moaning "You cant do that" lol :headbang:
 
What about the other London airports, are they run at capacity or could they be utilised more?
 
Just flown out of birmingham airport, and considering the amounts of snow here, since thursday night i was impressed by the efficiency:
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And a cheeky snap while in the air, the UK looks like the alps!
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ronk said:
A fella on the TV has just said that he has just flown from Munich airport which had a metre of snow at the side of the runway - all aircraft running on time - What a contrast when he got to Heathrow!
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The One show by any chance?

Heathrow has actually seen an impovement in cancellations (% wise) during this period of snow in comparisson to previous years.

The reason for the majority of cancellations on the 'first day' was actually due to poor visibility which meant they had to reduce the volume of traffic to operate safely (in addition to snow disruption).

As has been mentioned LHR is pushed to capacity with the volume of flights going in and out... it's not going to take much to have an impact on that.

A lot of the disruption since the snow arrived is the knock on effect... e.g. aircraft and crew sat in places they're not meant to be, and catching up with backlog of passengers.
 
It was! I dont know who the fella was and should say that he was certainly no expert.I think he made his observations as a member of the travelling public.
 
Snow in Britain; The only thing that settles here from off the continent that doesn't claim benefits.
 
Stuart Truman said:
Munich is used to it and they have hard winters. Heathrow sees this at most a couple of weeks a year. It's not economically viable to kit up in the same way as Munich.

I will however, be swearing on Thursday night if it's still snarled up as I'm due to fly out again :)
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The Times reported yesterday that Heathrow has spent £ 36 million on the "Heathrow snow plan" since 2010.
 
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