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Are the airports prepared for snow this year?

  • 10-11-2011 7:00pm
    #1
    deadlast
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    Well are they?


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  • #2
    Savman
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    One way to find out....


  • #3
    UDP
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    Who said there will be snow? Also there is very little they can do if it snows heavy. Even german airports were shut last year.


  • #4
    2qk4u
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    Dont need to worry about that until the middle of January.


  • #5
    deadlast
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    UDP wrote: »
    Who said there will be snow?
    Do you think they should just wish it away or prepare and make an effort so people aren't stranded like last year!?


  • #6
    UDP
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    deadlast wrote: »
    UDP wrote: »
    Who said there will be snow?
    Do you think they should just wish it away or prepare and make an effort so people aren't stranded like last year!?
    I was stranded for a number days last year in berlin but I understand that thee was nothing they could do without investing a fortune in some equipment that they might not even use every year. Even some of big airports that has the equipment still had to close.


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  • #7
    deadlast
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    UDP wrote: »
    I was stranded for a number days last year in berlin but I understand that thee was nothing they could do without investing a fortune in some equipment that they might not even use every year. Even some of big airports that has the equipment still had to close.
    that's fair enough if it's a huge amount but surely there's airports that operate with the equivalent of our worst!?


  • #8
    mefex
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    UDP wrote: »
    Who said there will be snow? Also there is very little they can do if it snows heavy. Even german airports were shut last year.
    The truth is that German airports were not closed for that long and they were simply better prepared.


  • #9
    UDP
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    mefex wrote: »
    The truth is that German airports were not closed for that long and they were simply better prepared.
    They were closed for a number of hours despite being very very well prepared.

    My point is that Airports can only do so much that is feasible. It is feasible for Germany to have all the equipment needed to clear snow but it would not be feasible for Dublin Airport to have a team of snow ploughs and other equipment just waiting around for off chance that it might snow heavily for a short period of time each year.

    While it might snow this year there is absolutely no evidence that it will since meteorlogists cannot predict that far ahead. Met Eireann on that Saturday show a few weeks back and said that those that are saying that there will be heavy snow again this year just because of last year and the year before are just guessing. It is possible of course but unlikely.


  • #10
    UDP
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    deadlast wrote: »
    that's fair enough if it's a huge amount but surely there's airports that operate with the equivalent of our worst!?
    Yes there is and with the right equipment it would probably have been easy to clear the snow but that equipment costs a lot of money and to just have it waiting about in the off chance that it snows heavily is not feasible.


  • #11
    sparrowcar
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    Yes Dublin airport is prepared. More investment in equipment. Training has been ongoing for months and a new and improved snow and ice plan was presented last month.

    The increase in equipment and training is almost 200% on 2008/2009 winter.

    However, even airports in Scandinavian countries close for clearing of snow, closures are inevitable but the duration should be shorter.


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  • #12
    munchkin_utd
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    sparrowcar wrote: »
    However, even airports in Scandinavian countries close for clearing of snow, closures are inevitable but the duration should be shorter.
    100%
    the snow that Dublin airport got last year was a freak. If you saw the weather radar from the time, it was almost freaky that the heaviest of the snow was in a tiny area (compared to the size of Ireland as a whole) concentrated unfortunately on Dublin airport.

    But seeing as we are on about the disruptions, a belated fair play to aer lingus!
    A number of planes were cancelled from Munich to Dublin because of the snow coming up to christmas but at the end of it everyone (that I know of anyhow) got home eventually after days of worry as aer lingus chartered an extra plane on christmas eve to get those home who otherwise would be stuck abroad over christmas.


  • #13
    UDP
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    munchkin_utd wrote: »
    But seeing as we are on about the disruptions, a belated fair play to aer lingus!
    A number of planes were cancelled from Munich to Dublin because of the snow coming up to christmas but at the end of it everyone (that I know of anyhow) got home eventually after days of worry as aer lingus chartered an extra plane on christmas eve to get those home who otherwise would be stuck abroad over christmas.
    I cant say the same about Aerlingus when I was stranded in Berlin last xmas. I was taken to a hotel where I was put in a room with a complete stranger from a different airline. If that wasn't bad enough when I got to the room I found that there was only one double bed. Hotel wouldn't do anything for me as they were told by aerlingus to share out the rooms between people. Rang Aerlingus (was put through to Cork Airport) and they told me that there was nothing they could or would do for me - so basically "tough ****". Luckily I was with two friends of mine (a couple) so I had a place to sleep on the ground.

    Aerlingus - terrible service.


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