"Have not been too much in touch in the last few days but for those folk in the know how would you rate Cork's handling of snow clearance etc in marks out of 10?"
Just spent three days trying to get out of ORK.... One was my own paranoia but the other two were weather related.... Marks out of 10 - 4/5 being generous, mostly 'cos staff were good. Snow stopped 05.00 on 11th, about 10cm - "exceptional" for ORK. Clearing started at 08.00 - the equipment is a joke, two conventional agricultural John Deeres with 3/4m blades, a JCB and two other tractors and trailers. It took until 14.00 to do the basics, 17/35 and the ramp, at least half of that time was the JCB picking up snow from various points along 17/35, dumping it in the trailes and they bring it to a point North of 17 entrypoint.
Dep to CDG on 12/01 was interesting, AirB320 full, 40Kn gusting 50 I'd say, not much runway needed....