Related: God Throws Ash Into the Gears of the War Machine
He really does work in mysterious ways, doesn't he?
And you want to get him even angrier?
"A bailout could help mitigate the financial impact on airlines. Airlines and the International Air Transport Association have called for government compensation for lost revenue — estimated to be as high as $400 million a day. Lawmakers have stepped in before.... after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the US government gave the airlines $5 billion"
That WOULD BE ENOUGH to -- as they used to say -- PISS OFF the Pope (who is probably a bit peeved these days at the agenda-pushing attack on the Church).
So ONCE AGAIN GOVERNMENT is working FOR INDUSTRY and AGAINST YOU, 'eh, citizens of the world?
Nothing mysterious about the agenda-pu$hing M$M:
"Welcome sights aloft ... reunions on ground ... but days to go before travel returns to normal" by Katie Johnston Chase and Gal Tziperman Lotan, Globe Staff | Globe Correspondent | April 21, 2010
More trans-Atlantic flights landed yesterday at Logan International Airport as a volcanic ash cloud began to fade across European skies, but travel wasn’t expected to return to normal levels before Friday....
Six days of flight cancellations and millions of stranded passengers have taken a toll around the world, and companies and travelers still are assessing the costs and adjusting their plans....
One can only surmise that HE made HIS point.
Just like travelers, businesses are having to factor in the costs of the cancellations as well. Overall, the US economy has lost $650 million in direct travel spending because of canceled flights to the United States, according to the US Travel Association. And the airlines are losing $200 million a day, according to the International Air Transport Association.
Some airlines, including Virgin Atlantic and British Airways, are paying for hotel rooms and meals for stranded travelers. But extraordinary circumstances — including an erupting volcano — mean that airlines aren’t required to do anything, said Christopher Elliott, a columnist and reader advocate for National Geographic Traveler.
“You have no rights, basically,’’ Elliott said. “When there is an act of God . . . all bets are off.’’
See?
Some agree with me because they also can SEE!!!
Are you GETTING the MESSAGE, overlords of the planet?
Ready to CHANGE YOUR WAYS?
Suing the airlines won’t do travelers much good, either, said Anthony Tarricone, a lawyer with the Boston firm Kreindler & Kreindler. “Even if the airlines had wanted to fly, the government shut down the skies,’’ Tarricone said. “As a matter of fundamental safety, there’s no legal recourse.’’
Then SUE the GOVERNMENT!
At Logan, international travelers trickling back into Terminal E were a welcome sight for restaurants and vendors. Many European-bound travelers simply stayed away from the airport when they found out their flights were canceled....
“It’s been a real kick in the pants for everybody....’’
Well, ONE KEEPS HOPING but the people that need to get the message do not seem to be getting it no matter how many times God gives 'em the boot!!
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And you know what $creams at the top of it$ lung$, right?
"With economic pressure, ash risks even less clear" by Seth Borenstein, Associated Press | April 21, 2010
WASHINGTON — Six days after volcanic ash shut down the skies over much of Europe, planes are back in the air, but science still can’t answer the question: Is it safe to fly again?
This from the AP's resident fart-mister?
Mother Nature has given Europe a lesson in risk, aviation technology, scientific uncertainty, and economics. And how these fields intersect is messy.
And you know who Mother Nature works for, right, readers?
Watching the same people who earlier said it was too dangerous to fly now say it’s safe “is just more proof that risk is a subjective idea,’’ said David Ropeik, a risk perception specialist at Harvard University. When people turn to science for answers, they get a lot of equivocation.
Oh, you are NOT hiding the decline there!!!
Gary Hufford, a US government volcano specialist based in Anchorage, [asked if he] would he get on a plane and fly into the ash cloud, said in a conference call yesterday afternoon:
“I would be cautious.’’
Abrasive, gritty ash can damage jet engines, and even experts don’t know what density levels are safe. For that matter, they can’t say how much ash from the Icelandic volcano is floating in any one spot along the air traffic routes or where it is going next. But airlines know what canceled flights can do to their bottom line. And passengers know when a canceled flight crosses the line from inconvenience to pain. So Monday night and into yesterday, planes began flying across most of Europe....
As airports reopen, passengers may have to decide for themselves what risk is acceptable. “With the amount of uncertainty, this now, I think, is a very hard decision,’’ said Paul Fischbeck, a risk analysis specialist at Carnegie Mellon University and a former military pilot. “How much risk are you willing to accept to reduce economic hardship and inconvenience?’’
For my life?
It's a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to being that high up!!!!
At stake are billions of dollars and millions of stranded passengers, said Fischbeck. But if a plane goes down, the airline would be shut down by lawsuits, he said.
When the Eyjafjallajokull volcano first spewed, the answer was simple. Authorities usually shut down airspace when there’s volcanic ash.
“Standard safety procedure is: Don’t go there if you don’t know,’’ said Michael Fabian, a professor of mechanical engineering at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Ariz.
But the days went on and the pain for airline companies and passengers increased and then people started questioning: How bad is it? How do you know?
“Hard questions reveal that the science isn’t as settled as first presented,’’ said George Gray, a specialist on risk at George Washington University and former science adviser to the US Environmental Protection agency.
Oh, no, NOT AGAIN!!!!!!!!!
Engineers worry about immediate, catastrophic damage that could occur if the ash dust congeals in an engine turbine, blocking air flow and shutting it down, Fabian said. In 1989, a
Then I AM STAYING on the GROUND, thank you!
Fabian said engineers know little about the risks from volcanic ash because it would take many hours and great expense to do repeated tests. And tests would be needed for the 20 different types of engines currently flown. Beyond that, atmospheric scientists can’t say how much ash is in any one place or predict how or when it will disperse.
Then why are we listening to "experts?"
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As European flights returned to the skies at near normal levels yesterday, airlines scrambled to get stranded passengers home — adding flights, bringing in bigger planes, even setting up special hotlines for diverted travelers. But some people who had been stuck in foreign cities for as long as a week waiting for the ash cloud from the Iceland volcano to clear took matters into their own hands....
One family of four flew from Los Angeles to Tel Aviv to Madrid, took an overnight train to Barcelona, then rented a car to drive to Toulouse, France, to attend a theater-on-ice competition, said Brett Snyder, president of Cranky Flier, an air travel assistance business. Snyder has been helping people find crazy ways to go during the major travel disruption, including travelers who went from Moscow, and then through Singapore and Tokyo, to get to Los Angeles....
European flights in and out of Logan were almost back to a regular schedule yesterday, but people trying to purchase tickets for travel in the next few days won’t have much luck. Some airlines are not selling tickets for this week in order to get all the stranded passengers home....
All the travel disruptions have hurt the airline industry, which has already suffered as people cut back on travel during the recession....
Airlines say their combined losses have topped $2 billion, and the International Air Transport Association said the economic fallout is worse than the three-day worldwide shutdown that followed the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001....
Am I supposed to be feeling sorry for the crappy airline industry?
Still,
Sigh.
That is all I am going to type now when I see THOSE WORDS!
Icelandair did not have to cancel any of its flights into the United States over the past week, despite the volcano erupting in its home country....
Yeah, it's the Icelanders fault and they are getting away with it; isn't that the tone you get from that phrasing?
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I don't know, readers' my anger and enthusiasm towards the newspaper is also waning.
"Logan back to normal flight schedules" by Globe Staff | April 23, 2010
Flights to and from European destinations are back on track in Boston after a week of massive travel disruptions caused by a volcanic ash cloud from an eruption in Iceland.
For several days, about 75 percent of flights to and from London, Paris, Amsterdam, Dublin, Shannon, Frankfurt, Munich, and Zurich were canceled at Logan International Airport....
Around the world, more than 100,000 flights were scrapped after the volcano erupted on April 14, spewing ash across Europe and posing a danger to jet engines.
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Of course, the concern is not you falling out of the sky; it is that OTHER THING, you know.
"Little fallout for airfares; Despite recent losses, airlines aren’t likely to raise prices, analysts say" by Katie Johnston Chase, Globe Staff | April 24, 2010
As the ash cloud from the volcanic eruption in Iceland clears, travelers considering a European summer vacation are starting to wonder whether the staggering losses airlines suffered during the week of travel disruptions will drive up airfares.
The answer, airline industry analysts say, is probably not.
But(?)....
The 100,000 flight cancellations worldwide due to the ash cloud, which posed a threat to jet engines, became the latest setback for an already beleaguered airline industry.
How are you doing, beleaguered Americans?
Between high jet fuel costs, earthquakes and hurricanes affecting travel to the Caribbean and South America, and the recession, airlines are hurting like never before.
Oh, my DON'T YOU FEEL SORRY for the FEE-HAPPY ASSES, readers?
Up in a smoke cloud?
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Obviously.
Last year, the industry lost $9.4 billion, according to the International Air Transport Association, and the airlines estimate they lost $1.7 billion because of the ash-cloud-related disruptions.
Thank you, God!
I DON'T THINK HE LIKES the FEES and you bumping up against his heavenly sanctuary.
“Sometimes the airline gods smile on you and sometimes they don’t,’’ said Darryl Jenkins of the Airline Zone, an airline economics group. “The last couple of years, Thor has been angry.’’
I'm not the only one noticing, readers; this IS the time of REVEALING!!!
But
Sigh.
That is all I am going to type now when I see THOSE WORDS!
raising fares isn’t the answer, analysts say. For one, prices to Europe are already sky-high....
I'm not going anyway, so....
Raising fares WOULD BE the answer for government!
Adding to that, reports about the possibility of recurring eruptions from the Icelandic volcano are making some people jittery about booking flights....
Look, the Lord above is GIVING YOU a GENEROUS BREAK to REPENT, so REPENT already!!!!!!!!!
“I think Mother Nature will have the last word,’’ said Rick Seaney of Farecompare.com....
And we KNOW WHOSE PAYROLL she is ON, right?
Meanwhile, there’s not much airlines can do to alleviate the financial strain they’ve experienced because of the volcano, said George Hoffer, a professor of economics at Virginia Commonwealth University and a longtime aviation industry observer....
Don't you feel sorry for them?
A bailout could help mitigate the financial impact on airlines.
Unbelievable that they EVEN BRING IT UP!!!!!
Airlines and the International Air Transport Association have called for government compensation for lost revenue — estimated to be as high as $400 million a day at the height of the ash cloud crisis. Lawmakers have stepped in before. When US airspace was closed for three days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the US government gave the airlines $5 billion....
Yeah, WHERE DID ALL THAT MONEY GO, anyway?!!!
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