You may want to check your times on the 31st.
And the snow clearing conversatio seems to have started with reference to other dates. And to be quite honest I agree with most of the original post. The airport has been unbelievably poor at arranging for FORECAST snow to be dealt with. GLA had it just as bad and managed to keep disruption to a minimum.
This must have cost all operators into the HIA jewel in the crown a fortune. I heard an EZY airbus in the hold absolutely incredulous that the airport wouldn't let him land even though the cleared width was 10m more than he required and the surface contaminant was well within limits.