Robin Hood Airport reopens
06.12.10
Robin Hood Airport reopened earlier than expected after the runway was cleared of snow and ice. The airport has been closed on and off since last Tuesday because of the snow.
It was not expected to reopen until this morning but staff managed to clear up to 18in (46cm) of snow from the runway by Sunday afternoon. A Thomson plane carrying 150 passengers to the Spanish island of Lanzarote was the first flight to take off.
Mike Morton, the airport's director, said: ‘We have had a dedicated team of staff that have been coming into the airport and making sure that we get the snow cleared as best we could. In total we have had 12 to 18in of snow over the last four or five days and what we have found is during the evening hours, early hours of the morning it's dropped below freezing and started to freeze.’ He said delayed passengers had been ‘absolutely fantastic. They recognise it's a one-off and it's not an airport problem.’
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