Christmas Chaos LGW
Actually, I think you will find that flood mitigation us a required pre requisite for R2 at Gatwick. This has been a live issue since the original plan for R2 were shelved under the planning agreement reached by BAA. The new owners have not yet addressed the specifics of R2.
If met stats suggest, we are all to expect more weather related events like this in the future.
I think the extreme weather events over the past few days do illustrate the need for all business to extend their contingency planning, which obviously didn't work that well at LGW, and to think about protecting key infrastructure from known risks. The river Mole had been there longer than North Terminal and the Lx supply network! As the Germans say, if it ain't broke, improve it!