East Midlands Airport to spend £3m on snow clearing equipment
20.01.11
East Midlands Airport is to spend £3m on new runway snow-clearing equipment. Over the next three years the airport will replace and upgrade some of its ageing snow ploughs to help keep the runway and aprons open. New snow blowers, gritters and tractor units will also be bought.
Chief executive Brad Miller said: ‘[The team] has done a remarkable job keeping the airport open this winter - but they need the tools to do the job.’ No flights were cancelled during December's snowfall, but some flights were delayed due to conditions at destination airports. In addition East Midlands took more than 30 redirected flights from other snow-affected airports in the UK, including Gatwick, Birmingham, Heathrow and Manchester.
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