45 minutes after our flight was due to take off, our plane is about to be de-iced so it can fly. I can only assume that no one working at Luton has access to TV or radio weather reports or has been outdoors for the past 36 hours. #SurpriseSnowAgain
How do airports in routinely cold countries manage to keep all flights on time then?
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Ahh, so we're a routinely cold part of the world now, and need conveyor belt style management of the runways, with shift after shift of contracted de-icers do we? Cracking move that, hire staff for the year that you're going to need for about 3 weeks tops
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I don’t expect us to spend the same as, say, Norway, but it’s one bloke in a crane spraying de-icer. It’s hardly multi-billion pound expenditure, is it?
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And why would contract workers need to be hired for 52 weeks a year?
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Oh, now they get contractors in......at short notice, no risk assessment, no length of contract agreed, so in effect, no contract?? It's like when you bang on about Brexit, you get presented with facts & just plough on regardless dont you.......
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You have beautifully illustrated how writing about other people's faults all day long doesn't mean that you actually know how to run a whelk stall yourself.
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That's disrespectful to people who run whelk stalls!
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They invest several million in special de-icing pans (areas away from the terminal where you stage through once the aircraft has boarded) with large quantities of de-icing equipment. If you’re prepared to pay more on your ticket to fund the equipment, then fine!
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De-icing and then waiting on the gate allows the fluid to re-freeze. This is lethal an has caused crashes. So better an hour late in this life than 40 years early in the next, no?
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They have more trucks to do it as they are use to it we are not ..
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