We don't have snow at this level very often. I believe this is the worst fall for 18 years. In all fairness to airports, it is surely unwise to invest in millions of pounds of machinery to sit there idly at all major British Airports for the odd heavy snowfall every few years. Mind you, if passengers were prepared to pay more for their tickets,. then that would pay for the equipment to stand redundant for most of the time??? As soon as we have snow, people start saying 'but we don't have problems at Geneva, Zurich etc.,' They have heavy snow every year, and consequently are geared up for it. We aren't and don't really need to be.