What happens when a plane has to fly in the snow?

I'm travelling by plane to Tel Aviv from Luton airport (London, England) on Monday. The forecast is set for heavy snow and yesterday Luton airport was closed in the morning due to the snow.

Would it have been closed for snow on the runway, rather than conditions being dangerous for flying?

Does it matter that the visibility is forecasted to be "very poor" - will this cause problems for the plane or is flight less reliant on visibility and more on radar etc.?

Thank you for any help - I'm curious (and hoping my flight won't be cancelled!)What happens when a plane has to fly in the snow?If the snow is falling at such a rate that the ground crew can't clear the runways, and/or the time between deicing and takeoff still results in too much snow on the wings, flights will be canceled.



Aircraft can take off in nearly 0/0 conditions, but they can't land in those conditions. If the aircraft don't come in, there will be no aircraft for you to take off in. Nearly all flight operations (except for the last segment of landing and the beginning segment of takeoff) are entirely done via instrumentation.



We can't control the weather. I hope you are able to make your flight.What happens when a plane has to fly in the snow?The auto pilot will kik in once you get up 180ft due to the lack of sight with the snow. Once you are out of the as they call it ''horizin break'' you are ok thats above the clouds. Dont worry the runway will be slippy so the pilot will reverse the engines soon as you hit the tarmac and the thrust will be set to idle. The taking off will be the worst part as well as the landing taking off the pilot will have to go to half thrust and then full throttle when he reahces the designated with to aviate. Please dont be scared or anixos ive flown in snow hundres of times and only once skided onto the flieds becuase the air traffic didnt tell me that a boeing 747-800 series was coming down so when i hit the tarmac i had to take off again within 4 seconds it was the most scaryist thing ive ever donw :) hopw you enjoy :)