Snow is forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday, it wasn’t that many years ago that snow fell between Christmas and New Year and brought 3 days of chaos to the airport. Day 1 was spent ploughing the airport but once open there was only one serviceable aircraft de-icer for the whole airport for the next 2 days. Hope they have a spare this year!
LTNman - try taking a look at the snow clearing equipment that LLAO now has in its inventory (usually parked in the 'snow base' at the rear of the Airport Fire Station). You'll see that things have rather moved on over the last three or-so years; pity you too, aren't a tad more up-to-date.
Whilst it's certainly valid to observe that although LLAO has spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on new snow clearing equipment, they still park it all out in the open (a rather strange ethos inherited from the previous operators, Luton Council!) under the direction of one of LLAO's directors (a US guy who was the FAA's man at Anchorage for a time) LTN's snow plan is significantly more effective and better organised than it was back in the late nineties and up to about 2002.
But remember that being at 500 feet on the Chilterns, LTN has its own 'micro-climate' which gives it an equivalent latitude (and local weather) to the likes of East Midlands, etc.
