It's not a great excuse
But we don't get it regularly enough to have the infrastructure in place to cope with it. It's not worth Gatwick's while to have loads of snow clearing equipment and de-icing stuff that would be redundant every other year. Plus, most places that have serious snow don't have the flight densities that Gatwick and Heathrow do.

Same argument goes for road snowploughs, gritters etc etc.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 15:31, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

I think it is worth it
Last year they lost loads of money. A lot more than would have been to buy the clearing equipment.

Same argument goes for all of the country having to stop for 1 or 2 weeks.

It's been 3 years on a row, now. I'd think that is quite regular.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 30 Nov 2010, 15:34, Reply)

It's not, or they would have bought it.
One thing these people have is a sound business sense, even if it seems not. If it was worth it financially they would have bought them

It's not just buying the kit. It's storing it, maintaining it, paying trained operators who may only work for 2 weeks a year, etc etc

It's only been 2 bad years, and it's only been a week so far this time. Before that, there was probably 10-15 years with no serious disruption in the south east
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 30 Nov 2010, 15:38, Reply)