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Originally Posted by Brian Fantana
Another fine example of MAN operations
Originally Posted by Brian Fantana
This snow has been forecast for a while!!
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How many excuses do you want to keep making ?
Fact, this was forecast yesterday by the METOFFICE of heavy snow.
Whether snow is forecast or not, the airport is continually caught with its pants down.
The last bad winters I remember 1981/82 & 1978/9 and the airport wasnt in such a state then as it continually seems to be...
Fact, this was forecast yesterday by the METOFFICE of heavy snow.
Whether snow is forecast or not, the airport is continually caught with its pants down.
The last bad winters I remember 1981/82 & 1978/9 and the airport wasnt in such a state then as it continually seems to be...
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Dazbo5 - It may be heavy snow, but the snow had been forecast! they should have been ready for it. prior planning prevents pi$$ poor performance.
“You can't clear a runway while the snow is falling as heavy as it is at the moment with aircraft landing on top of you!”
It would seem nothing is capable of landing at MAN whenever snowflakes appear.
Pi$$ poor performance is standard at MAN in the snow.
Maybe airlines which have incurred additional costs with diverts should be claiming the money back from the airport authority, that way the airport might get its act together!!
“You can't clear a runway while the snow is falling as heavy as it is at the moment with aircraft landing on top of you!”
It would seem nothing is capable of landing at MAN whenever snowflakes appear.
Pi$$ poor performance is standard at MAN in the snow.
Maybe airlines which have incurred additional costs with diverts should be claiming the money back from the airport authority, that way the airport might get its act together!!
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why are people still complaing about snow clearance at Manch.Like you said heavy snow was forecast and it fell. Whilst it is snowing you cannot clear a runway, by the time you get to the end, where you started is covered again, therefore you have to wait until the snow has ceased or moderated in its fall otherwise you are wasting your time and money
why are people still complaing about snow clearance at Manch.Like you said heavy snow was forecast and it fell. Whilst it is snowing you cannot clear a runway, by the time you get to the end, where you started is covered again, therefore you have to wait until the snow has ceased or moderated in its fall otherwise you are wasting your time and money
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There is no excuses for not being prepared. I make my point again, getting more snow than was forecast is one thing, being told by the METOFFICE that there was a forecast for heavy snow 36 hours earlier and still not being able to be prepared is in-excusable, sorry....
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I would like to pose another serious question..What has happened to the airport in twelve months ?
I refer to the last bad spell of snow in February 2009. Monday 2nd there was snow on and off all day at MAN, and to my knowledge it never closed at all and handled 36 diversions.....!!!!
Any ideas ? Coz im sure as hell struggling to know how things have deteriorated so badly
I refer to the last bad spell of snow in February 2009. Monday 2nd there was snow on and off all day at MAN, and to my knowledge it never closed at all and handled 36 diversions.....!!!!
Any ideas ? Coz im sure as hell struggling to know how things have deteriorated so badly
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Some people talking throught their ar$e here...the snow in the last 2 hours has been amongst the heaviet i have ever seen....do you know how heavy the snow has to be for a met viz of 800 meters with no wind to stir the snow...bloody heavy...
No airport could have stayed open in that...we had over 1 inch fall in just 45 minutes, so come on....out of those armchairs and explain what you would have done to keep things open ???
No airport could have stayed open in that...we had over 1 inch fall in just 45 minutes, so come on....out of those armchairs and explain what you would have done to keep things open ???
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You CAN keep an airport open by alternating brushing of BOTH runways, which is what seems to happen at other airports including LHR.
Even after the recent cockups nobody seems to be learning, instead MAN switches to single runway ops and then calls a closure.
If I was an airline CEO I would be wanting heads to roll.
MAN pull your finger out of your a*se and get this continuing fiasco sorted.
I and the world no longer want to listen to excuses.
You have had 36 hours notice of this snow, every bit of equipment should have began rolling as soon as it started.
Even after the recent cockups nobody seems to be learning, instead MAN switches to single runway ops and then calls a closure.
If I was an airline CEO I would be wanting heads to roll.
MAN pull your finger out of your a*se and get this continuing fiasco sorted.
I and the world no longer want to listen to excuses.
You have had 36 hours notice of this snow, every bit of equipment should have began rolling as soon as it started.