Did I miss some Virgin heavy metal at LTN???
Remember three Laker 10's years ago
"Virgin Atlantic has claimed that it will withhold paying BAA £100,000 in fees, after last week's runway closure at Gatwick Airport.
The Richard Branson-owned airline has said that it will deduct the costs it incurred as a result of BAA's closure of London Gatwick's runway, after the Spanish operator failed to de-ice it in time for morning arrivals.
As a result of this oversight, Virgin was forced to delay flights and divert seven aircraft to Luton Airport and London Stansted Airport.
Sir Richard Branson believes that the failure to predict cold weather was a sign of incompetence. He said: "Thousands of our passengers were disrupted … BAA will have to pick up these costs as it created the problem in the first place.""