EUROPE’S AIRPORTS MAKE STRIDES TO IMPROVE PREPARATION FOR SNOW EMERGENCIES
September 1st, 2013
QUITE a lot has happened at Europe’s airports since the European Commission took them to task in December 2010 over their ability – or want of it - to handle snow emergencies. The blizzards in that month were in many countries the worst for 30 years, bringing chaos to aviation and prompting Siim Kallas, the EU’s transport commissioner, to threaten airports with the imposition of minimum service requirements if things did not improve. And now? If modern technology has failed to deliver a guarantee of better winter weather, it has at least equipped airport ...
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