london heathrow snow airport

london in refrigerator..hehe. heathrow airport weather in london was disruption. With airport authorities, airlines and the government all blaming one another over who is to blame for a few inches of snow pushing air travel to its knees, one of the main complaints on news bulletins has been a lack of information shared to those affected. weather forecast heathrow airport for ten day you can check in www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/tenday/LHR:9 .

Heathrow Air port is particularly snowed-under, with one of its pair of runways open, but on a strictly limited heathrow flights basis. Gatwick and London Stansted are more or less running as normal, while delays and cancellations are the order of the day at other key UK airports including Aberdeen, Luton, Bristol, Southampton, London City, Glasgow and Edinburgh.

The heathrow airport snow situation essentially reflects the way snow has fallen on the UK in recent hours, and more snow is still forecast in hours to come.

Huge numbers of passengers scheduled to fly out of London Heathrow are unable to do so and, speaking to news organisations, many have expressed discontent over the lack of information provided.

BAA is now advising passengers to avoid arriving at Heathrow unless their flight departure is 100 per cent confirmed. Earlier, Willie Walsh – the chief executive of British Airways – conceded that the major British airline could have supplied Heathrow passengers with more information than it did.

Heathrow Snow

BAA is publishing regular Heathrow snow updates on its website and, in the latest one, it reasserted its previous message. ‘There are continuing freezing conditions at Heathrow and it is currently snowing’, it said.

‘Terminals 1 and 3 [two of Heathrow’s five Terminals) are extremely congested and we are unable to accept any more passengers coming to these terminals.

‘We are therefore asking passengers not to travel to Heathrow Terminals 1 and 3 until further notice’, it concluded, adding that the situation would be re-examined at 1600 hours.
Airport Snow Flights

This is the second blast of UK airport snow experienced in recent days. Then, as now, the situation remained changeable. In general, passengers are being advised to research their flight status before they leave home.

Heathrow is owned by BAA, a representative of which highlighted the efforts taking place to try and combat the impact of the airport snow.

“We had five inches of snow in an hour on Saturday afternoon and hundreds of planes parked when the snow came down”, Andrew Teacher explained to the BBC. “We have drafted in hundreds of people to clear the snow and thousands of people have been put up in hotels(airport-int)

And now why Heathrow ground to an icy halt from bbc weather heathrow airport.

Colin Matthews, BAA's chief exec, says: "We were hit by snow which we haven't seen at Heathrow certainly in my lifetime."

He says the problem hasn't just been snow and ice on the 2 runways - but also clearing the stands where planes were parked.

"Too optimistic"

"We're really sorry for the disruption which resulted from that," he says. "We were too optimistic on Saturday about how quickly we could get the schedule re-established.

Heathrow says another reason why it's struggled more than smaller airports is that it has to deal with flights landing and taking off every few seconds.

It means the knock-on effect is much bigger when things go wrong.

The airport says it's hired 100 extra people to clear the snow and ice....they've also got a fleet of 28 ploughs, as well as snow blowers and de-icing vehicles.

It also says: "weather is different in different places - Gatwick and other airports closed several times last winter and earlier this winter, when Heathrow did not.

"The fact is that we had a huge downfall of snow on Saturday despite our preparations.

"If snow continues to fall on a runway that is being cleared, then no amount of snow ploughs can stop it landing on the ground and presenting a risk of sliding aircraft.

"The key difference at Heathrow is the gap between aircraft - it is seconds rather than minutes.

" If an airport somewhere in Siberia has a few flights an hour, then nobody notices that it's closed for snow clearing. At Heathrow, the effect is more dramatic."

BAA promise they will review their performance once things are back to normal... but that's not expected to be until after Christmas.(BBC)