Violet Club,
The problem could lie in the fact that the BAA made a £1 Billion profit last year and spent a massive £6 million in 'de-icing' investment.
I watched, somewhat distraught by the sight, a single tractor (Elf 'n' Safety yellow) with a rotating brush trying to make a dent on frozen snow on a 10,000 x 45m runway the other day. It's laughable.
When they (BAA) were challenged last time about the lack of infrastructure to deal with snow and ice the BAA merely claimed that their risk management strategy precluded further investment as the occurences were statistically too low to warrent it.
Once again the bean counters decide the strategy based upon a probability graph and the rest of us have to live with the results.
