Originally Posted by
Daz80
BRS closed pretty much constantly from 2000z last night until much later today.
LPL, MAN and BFS closed last week for a good 2-3+ hrs at times due to snow clearance.
Yet we all fly into airports around the continent that manage to stay open with a mix of chemical de-icing and snow clearance procedures that only take 30mins or less.
When are we going to accept that snow actually happens and we need to prepare for it?
It all depends on incentive.
Now that the airport is comfortably in private hands rest assured they have done the numbers.
Sunk capital into expensive equipment can't be justified when, on probability the number of days in any given year the airport is affected is below a given threshold.
Much better improving the revenue mix with more shops and car parks. As they say money for nuthin'
Thus as a monopolistic airport owner, they are all rather chuffed that the 'externality' is borne by the poor old taxpayer that built the asset in the first place. The politicians who sold the public assets have long ago spent the money and comfortably retired on the back of the same taxpayer.
Been going on a while and nothing changes...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/n...irport-admits/