What LGW has had next to GVA is laughable.
For the record what would this amount be?
but in other countries where snow is the norm
This is the point. In the last 15-20 years snow has NOT been the norm in the UK. Hence it will take years more of this to get back up to speed again. The institutional memory of winter snow has entirely gone from swathes of the UK.
In recent years we were looking at the permanent closure of Aviemore and the entire Scottish skiiing industry. No longer....