Heathrow ‘will always struggle with snow’
07.02.12
Heathrow will always struggle to cope with snow because the airport is full, the Telegraph reports that the airport operator has admitted. The first serious snow of the winter saw 41 percent of flights cancelled on Sunday, with a third scrapped before a snowflake fell in an attempt to prevent the disruption spilling over into the week. Around 40 flights were cancelled yesterday, mostly because the bad weather had left crew and aircraft at the wrong airport.
The airport avoided the meltdown of previous years, but operator BAA faced criticism for the number of cancellations at a time when continental airports, who endured far worse conditions, succeeded in running near-complete schedules A Heathrow spokesman said: ‘If we had the same conditions again we would probably take the same pre-emptive action and cancel 30 percent of our flights. Given that we are running at more than 99 percent capacity it is the only way to get slack in the system.’
[The European airports that did not suffer cancellations in worse conditions do not operate anywhere near capacity, and the larger hub airports also have more runways].
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