Originally Posted by
Fabo.sk
There's dozens of airports in Europe and worldwide that deal with snow and do it very well... It can be done.
But, realistically... it snows in the Netherlands like twice a year. Do you really think it'd be worth to invest in winter operations technology, for that one week of usage?
And are you prepared to pay for it? Nobody else will - Schiphol fees would have to go up and therefore ticket prices would have to go up.
.....Many flights with *A via Munich, Vienna, Zurich to Asia are very competetively priced compared to Skyteam, Finnair via Helsinki ditto. All via airports that have to be well prepared for snow. Schiphol has 70 Mio passengers and 50cts per person gives you 35 Million to play with.....of course I have no clue how expensive or cheap good winter preps could be, but my gut feeling is Schiphol prefers to keep the Millions for itself. Another option is a lack of organisational skills in this field (other threads have these frequent complaints on the security system where far more handluggage is sent to secondary and far more passengers need a manual check as in any other airport.....a situation existing for years now).