Will Hand wrote:

"Graham P Davis" wrote in message
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Jack ) wrote:

I cannot comment on the administrative background to the present
airport chaos, but I throw in this little story.

Just before Christmas 1979, the weather pattern was almost identical to
that at present with widespread fog.

You must be mistaken, Jack. A spokesman (for BAA?) on Radio 5 Breakfast this
morning that the problems are due to dense fog - dense? - at Heathrow and
that it's unprecedented for it to last so long at this time of year. Of
course that means all the long-lasting freezing fogs that I remember
occurring at this time of year must also be a figment of my imagination.


Why do people always seem to hype up the weather nowadays?
Modern weather is really very benign most of the time (as it often was in the
past if we are honest), and then all of a sudden you get a Boscastle. This fog
is just run of the mill ordinary winter stuff. The main problem is that Heathrow
is operating at 98% capacity and hence cannot cope with any interruptions. Same
with other aspects of our crowded infrastructure.

Will.
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No problems at Land's End Airport www.sennen-cove.com/today2.htm (just
above the white house).
http://www.islesofscilly-travel.co.u...aerial_leq.jpg

Graham