Major Flight Delays This Winter Reveal a Weak Spot in Airport Logistics |
Ice is a major safety hazard for airplanes. So why is it so difficult for airports to stay on top of de-icing?
BY CHRIS STOKEL-WALKER
A Eurowings aircraft is de-iced on a de-icing area at Berlin-Brandenburg BER Airport. Photo: Getty Images
It was when we neared the third hour of waiting on the tarmac at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport that I began to get really bored of being stuck on the passenger jet. I had already done it once before that day, at Vienna airport in Austria, where we waited to taxi over to an area on the fringes of the airfield to be doused in a warmed-up glycol mix.
My experience was far from........