As a result of the wonderful decision making processes that go on at BAA:
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.
it can only be good news for the UK branch of the Tree Hugging society. For not only will Heathrow not need a 3rd runway, it will soon not need a 2nd one as international airlines take a long hard look at their choice of European Hub.
I feel desperately sorry for all the people who have been hugely bug*ered up by this, but as I used to try to sell de-ciing/snow vehicles to BAA with very little success, as they simply delayed and delayed decisons, I look at BAA's situation with a certain amount of schadenfreude....