Who's in charge of Heathrow?

[eliot]

thinfourth2 said:

TEKNOPUG said:

F i F said:

Did they, Gatwick, deal with it very well about two weeks back? I don't think so, albeit a lot more snow, but then only a single runway operation.

They've put a lot of effort in after that fiasco admittedly.

By the way did I mention that LHR had only 4 inches to clear?

Gatwick spent £8m on snow clearing machines which were delivered 2 days before the snow.

Russians don't seem to have much difficulty

I wander if they are faster forwards or backwards?

You know for certain that someone has tried

If you were given a truck with a jet engine strapped to the front you would try you know you would

I had the bright idea of jet snowblowers the other day - this one for trains didn't seem to work as well as you might think:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAes7fFpgeY&fea...

[singlecoil]

eliot said:

thinfourth2 said:

TEKNOPUG said:

F i F said:

Did they, Gatwick, deal with it very well about two weeks back? I don't think so, albeit a lot more snow, but then only a single runway operation.

They've put a lot of effort in after that fiasco admittedly.

By the way did I mention that LHR had only 4 inches to clear?

Gatwick spent £8m on snow clearing machines which were delivered 2 days before the snow.

Russians don't seem to have much difficulty

I wander if they are faster forwards or backwards?

You know for certain that someone has tried

If you were given a truck with a jet engine strapped to the front you would try you know you would

I had the bright idea of jet snowblowers the other day - this one for trains didn't seem to work as well as you might think:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAes7fFpgeY&fea...

Would it be safe to use machines like truck mounted jets to clear snow around the parked aircraft that were iced in, or are they only for runways, which, IIRC, wasn't the main cause of hold-ups at Heathrow?

[F i F]

Eric Mc said:

Gatwick's snow was every bit as difficult as Heathrow. It seems Gatwick did splash out and buy some stuff after the first snow hit - which allowed them to cope better with the second hit.

LGW had a foot of snow, unlike LHR's 4 inches, OK being generous 5 inches. Some say LHR had a lot more but one suspects such measurements were done with one of those todger rulers by which everyone has a foot and half.

LGW admitted after the first closure that they just didn't have enough kit, and went and did something about it.

LHR? Will they do something about it? I've seen them in total chaos after 0.5 inch of snow, and still in chaos even after it's all melted and runways, taxiways and aprons are all clear and just wet with no ice.

Hope Willie Walsh and the other airline execs give the prats the bomb up the rear end they need.