Heathrow triples snow vehicle fleet
04.10.11
Heathrow airport has tripled the number of snow clearing vehicles to be used to tackle severe winter weather. It also now has three times as many staff ready to clear snow compared with last year.
Thousands of passengers were left stranded at the airport as 4,000 flights were cancelled over five days for heavy snow in the peak period before last Christmas. This lead to widespread criticism of BAA and it responded by launching a review. As a result of that it has invested £32.4m so far to tackle severe weather and now has 185 snow clearance vehicles and has 468 staff per shift, compared to 117 last year.
Heathrow has also introduced a new ‘reservist’ role whereby up to 950 staff will be deployed to the terminals to help passengers during any disruption. BAA also has plans a new airport control centre and improvements to passenger information.
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