Originally Posted by
johan rebel
There may be a few people in e.g. Oslo who do know. You may have heard of the place.
Deicing at AMS is a joke. Is there any other major airport in the world that relies on one of its customer airlines to provide a deicing service run by volunteers?
Johan
So far as I know de-icing is done both by KLM and by Schiphol, and the people who run the ice removals from the runways and whatnot are mostly if not completely employed by Schiphol. At least this is what the Schiphol people have always told me.
It's also not entirely reasonable to expect Schiphol to have a huge team of people sitting around doing nothing 360 days out of the year to deal with 5 days of inclement weather, so maybe what they're doing is not entirely a terrible solution.