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It's extremely unusual circumstances for crews who are mostly inexperienced in these sort of conditions.
Really? Winter ops should be familiar territory for an airline with worldwide ops. It's a taxi incident, that's all. Well, being a ME carrier, there is no way to know how EK will react.
Yes, really.
EK may operate to all corners of the globe, but it's quite feasible that a pilot on the 777 who does 4-5 trips a month may not see true winter ops at all during his EK career... Especially bearing in mind that of the 90 or so destinations only maybe 10 are potential winter ops conditions and then only likely to be so on the odd occasion during the year.
Would be interesting to get some replies on this thread to estimate just how many people have taxied on snow covered taxiways during their time with EK.
What's your advice and technique for taxiing on very narrow, snow covered taxiways where the centreline and/or edge markings are not discernible? If you don't mind sharing.