Carillion work in progress towards the expanded 'Snow Base' at London Heathrow Airport. Prompted by the severe winter weather of 2010. Plane landing
Work in progress towards the expanded 'Snow Base' at London Heathrow Airport. Following the severe winter weather of December 2010, Heathrow established a winter resilience enquiry to examine how the airport could respond more effectively to future severe weather events. The enquiry was chaired by Professor David Begg and featured a panel of global aviation experts, airport stakeholders and passenger representatives. In March 2011 the Enquiry made 14 recommendations on how Heathrow, working with the airline community, NATS and the CAA, could improve the airport’s resilience to disruption and deliver better passenger welfare and experience. Heathrow accepted all the recommendations of the Enquiry and immediately announced a programme to implement the recommendations in full. This report, which comes six month after the publication of the enquiry report, is an update on the progress made so far. The 14 recommendations of the Heathrow Winter Resilience Enquiry were: 1 Enhance snow plan 2 Review aircraft de-icing processes 3 Regular snow plan review 4 Early collaboration on contingency planning 5 Dynamic management of consumables 6 Strengthen crisis management process 7 Define clear escalation triggers 8 Strengthen capacity constraints group 9 Sustainable crisis resourcing 10 Enhance flight information and passenger communications 11 Establish a single airport command/control centre 12 Improve situational awareness 13 Jointly strengthen current welfare arrangements with airlines and CAA 14 Routinely plan and test welfare arrangements Longer term projects underway include this fully enhanced snow base with covered vehicle, storage, maintenance and staff welfare facilities.
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Location: Heathrow, London, UK
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