Things are not going well in Stockholm due to intense Blizzards and snow.
Buses, trains are all shut down with parts of the roads closed.
And then a de-icing truck crashed into BA771 or 775.
Witnesses say the engine was destroyed. This happened after the plane had been on the ground for 5 hours and finally had got clearance to depart for LHR.
Photo from Svenska Dagbladet (www.svd.se)
What bad luck.
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Oh dear.
However, is there a Swedish word for Schadenfreude? The reason I ask is that a quick search here will find loads of "Sweden can handle snow so well" (it would be ungallant of me to post the links but there are plenty of them), when my corner of England has had a lot more snow than this for nearly a week now and life continues.
However, is there a Swedish word for Schadenfreude? The reason I ask is that a quick search here will find loads of "Sweden can handle snow so well" (it would be ungallant of me to post the links but there are plenty of them), when my corner of England has had a lot more snow than this for nearly a week now and life continues.
However, is there a Swedish word for Schadenfreude? The reason I ask is that a quick search here will find loads of "Sweden can handle snow so well" (it would be ungallant of me to post the links but there are plenty of them), when my corner of England has had a lot more snow than this for nearly a week now and life continues.
A lot more snow than what? Conditions are actually bad even for Sweden with nearly half a meter of snow the last 24 hours, and very strong winds.
Usually airports here deal with snow without delays. About 20 trucks clearing snow, problem is it is falling at such a rate and it is freezing so runways have to be cleared almost non-stop.
Do BA planes attract ground vehicles or something?
That's the 3rd one this year that's had a prang!
Aircraft damage by ground vehicles is extremely common unfortunately, so it's not BA being a ground vehicle damage magnet. If they really had only 3 this year, BA might even have a ground vehicle damage repellent
However, is there a Swedish word for Schadenfreude? The reason I ask is that a quick search here will find loads of "Sweden can handle snow so well" (it would be ungallant of me to post the links but there are plenty of them), when my corner of England has had a lot more snow than this for nearly a week now and life continues.
I would respectfully suggest that if they are struggling with the wind and snow in Stockholm then London would be shut down completely under similar conditions! If you want to see how to keep an airport open in winter then go visit LLA or AJR (we've been to both, in January both times).
I've just come off the phone to someone who works in central Stockholm, he's having to leave his car parked at work and take the train home because driving is so dire...
I'm due to visit ARN on Sunday/Monday. Hmm... What's the phrase LTN Phobia uses? "Travel disruption magnet"...
A lot more snow than what? Conditions are actually bad even for Sweden with nearly half a meter of snow the last 24 hours, and very strong winds.
Usually airports here deal with snow without delays. About 20 trucks clearing snow, problem is it is falling at such a rate and it is freezing so runways have to be cleared almost non-stop.
It probably demonstrates that every airport that's liable to be significantly affected by winter weather will be likely to have some disruption every year - simply because it's simply not cost effective to equip yourself to deal with all winter weather, whatever the level of winter weather that you'd normally get at the airport in question.
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Aircraft damage by ground vehicles is extremely common unfortunately, so it's not BA being a ground vehicle damage magnet. If they really had only 3 this year, BA might even have a ground vehicle damage repellent
Surely the ground handling company will claim 'extraordinary circumstances' to wriggle out of any claim....!
It probably demonstrates that every airport that's liable to be significantly affected by winter weather will be likely to have some disruption every year - simply because it's simply not cost effective to equip yourself to deal with all winter weather, whatever the level of winter weather that you'd normally get at the airport in question.
Indeed.
One of things that you notice if you see winter operations at MUC (or indeed ARN) is that when there is prolonged heavy snowfall then one needs a fair bit of free space to put all the snow. You see snow being collected and moved using big trucks and dumped in designated areas at the ends of the airfield. Massive heaps of slowly-melting snow can still be seen well into the Spring
I suspect LHR doesn't really have much spare space (a) to put lots and lots of snow, and (b) to put all the aircraft while they cleared snow from stands and taxiways. So even if Santa handed over a few million and HAL suddenly acquired the same amount of snow-ploughing, -collecting and -moving equipment as MUC or ARN has, it wouldn't fix everything overnight.
MUC has its bad days - I think often more due to poor visibilty than snow per se. A few years back I'm sure I heard they had an aircraft come off either a runway or taxiway (very gently) but which effectively meant they were down to one runway instead of two, during a snowstorm. That wasn't pretty. I arrived much later that night and most of the chaos had subsided by then...
However, is there a Swedish word for Schadenfreude? The reason I ask is that a quick search here will find loads of "Sweden can handle snow so well" (it would be ungallant of me to post the links but there are plenty of them), when my corner of England has had a lot more snow than this for nearly a week now and life continues.
