It seems that easyJet will take the brunt of any situation no matter what they do. FR suffer the same
pr issues. Everyone is really quick to jump on the band waggon and give loco carriers a bash!
In the past easyJet have had a policy of fly everything no matter what. This didn't work when they were smaller and has no way of working now. The airports give massively unreliable information about when they will re-open following snoclo. Terminals full of people, runways and taxi ways and aprons full of snow. Airport announces snoclo for a further 3 hours.
easy will now look at the forecast and take a punt. Sometimes this works really well and you will see no comment in the press or on here. Sometimes it appears that they have over done it and get slated.
As a passenger, would you rather get told well in advance flight cancelled due to snow, or go to the airport on a wing and a prayer that you will get there in the first place, find horrific queues in the terminal at check in as they try to deal with earlier cancelled flights, get through security, have a rolling delay that rolls and rolls and rolls and finally after all that, the flight is cancelled and you have to fight to collect you bag and then to get to a check in to re-book, fight with the congested and poorly gritted roads and finally get back to where you started.
The UK doesn't have the experience or equipment to deal with snow as we all know. This type of weather is currently unusual so would not justify the expenditure. We try our best, but theres not a lot more can be done. The airlines know this. easy are operating over 500 sectors a day to 70+ destinations (thats a bit of a guess . . .) and have the whole network to manage, not just uk airports.
I think thats my rant over . . . .for now!!!!