"Hundreds forced to land in Ireland" AUGGHHH! My God we're they forced to kiss the BLARNEY STONE?

So Mr Paddy Air the thieving irishman cancels as soon as he could. I bet he dont refund the people as quick as he cancelled their flights???.........

People in this country should realise by now what the word "Winter" means, if you book flights in winter time then you should expect there may be delays or cancellations.the ONLY way round this is if there is under soil heating under all taxi ways and runways, like you have at Football grounds under the football pitches, but the cost of doing this is out of the question because the disruption is normally only for a few days of the year, I am no expert in aviation and neither are 99% of the people who fly, but people are quick to moan about the disruption when winter weather hits, this country is called the "United Kingdom" we are not Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Russia etc etc who doing things differently mainly because they have more bad winter weather than we do, I once got stranded at Bangor Maine Airport in the US because we landed there to re-fuel after taking off from Barbados on landing the outside temperature was minus 20c and whilst we refuelled the wings of the plane iced up so they had to get spray the wings,halfway through the machine broke down, then the runway became blocked, the only other sprayer was owned by the USAF and the operator was at home in bed, so he had to be contacted and had to make his way into the airport, he sprayed the wings then the runway got snowed up again, no one moaned.

It's time we realised that this aeroplane malarkey is just not working. "Flying" everywhere is just not the way things were meant to be. We should re-name the Wright brothers, calling them instead the Wrong brothers. And snow? High time it was taxed, in order to limit the amount of it.

Typical disgusting response from UK airports to a few inches of the white stuff. I have landed and taken off from Boston and New York on a regular basis when there has been 30 inches of snow overnight and very few flights were affected.

It is about time we realised in the UK that we do get snow in winter. Are we the only country in the world to be taken by suprise by snow?? Get a grip - invest in snow clearing equipment and, if we don't have to use it for a couple of years - fine - it stays in better condition. The same goes for the roads - INVEST as a one off cost which will last for years and save the country millions of pounds.

But its ok to say Britain when it is Great Britain

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What many people do not realize is that Heathrow is running at 99% capacity; there are delays and cancellations even on a good day. To assume the airport can handle it's normal operations when snow is obviously going to cause problems (it takes time to de-ice runways, clear snow, etc.) is ridiculous. Yes, it is the case that airports that are used to such conditions on a more regular basis are undoubtedly going to be better prepared to deal with snow. But then these airports are certainly not operating so close to their limit of aircraft movements, and hence, delays and diversions will not happen as regularly as they do at LHR.

it is amazing.
A lot of countries throughout the world are constantly below freezing, but here in the UK a slight snow fall or drop in temperature brings the countries transport system to a standstill.
is there anything we can do right.

back where thay came from then!