Snow problems last year....

I was returning home the weekend before christmas last year, and got caught up in the snow chaos via the eurostar, where airports had cancelled most of the flights in western europe on saturday, and everyone descended on Eurostar (which cancelled half its trains as well) into london and got stuck there with no hotels...

I remember heathrow being a massive failure, I heard Gatwick did ok, what about Manchester? We're flying there late december and wonder how it coped...

I understand if a heavy snowfall delays by a day, but the heathrow stuff was madness wasn't it?

Very true, Smid! My wife, friends and I were due to fly out on the Saturday before Christmas LGW-MCO on VS27...and then it snowed :0 ! Thanks to a proactive ground crew, amazing CC and some serious de-icing we flew out about 4 hours late and were one of the last flights out ^) y)

I felt sorry for all the other people at LGW/LHR that were absolutely stuffed n(

Sky's Inside Gatwick had a whole programme about the airport field operations team.

On the night of the heaviest snowfalls that Gatwick had seen for more than 20 years, all the weather forecasts they received predicted that Gatwick will miss the snow. Instead 4 inches of snow fell in a hour. They showed them clearing the runway. As soon as they cleared the runway and de-iced it, they looked behind them and it was white again.

Worth watching it again if you can find it.