Re: Airports closed as volcanic ash drifts toward UK
 

oh come on flyboy airplanes fly through ash clouds all the time only the realy dense ones will cause a airplane to drop out of the sky .

Re: Airports closed as volcanic ash drifts toward UK
 

That they shouldn't have to pay exhorbitant compensations costs.

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Aeroplanes do not fly through ash clouds all the time. They are quite rare, especially in this part of the world. The cloud does not have to be very dense for glass deposits to form on jet turbine blades. This is why the aircraft were grounded in the first place.

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No one is asking them to pay exorbitant compensation to anyone, only what is reasonable.

Re: Airports closed as volcanic ash drifts toward UK
 

Well if someone has bought a £40 flight ticket, but can then potentially reclaim 5 days hotels and meals costs. I consider that unreasonable.

Re: Airports closed as volcanic ash drifts toward UK
 

No, that isn't. The length of the closure was, however. Especially as it seems the closure was based on a limited amount of data about the ash.

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If a flight is cancelled or you cannot get on the flight due to the airline, i.e. overbooking, crew strikes etc then the airline should have responsibility to find you hotels, meals etc
If it is cancelled due to something outside their control i.e. natural disaster, ATC strike then they should not have to provide hotels, food etc.

After all how can an airline like easyjet factor in the possibility of having to pay for 15,000 hotel rooms and meals for up to 5 days to their business plan. You can say they have insurance, but insurance costs money.

Re: Airports closed as volcanic ash drifts toward UK
 

I thought the closure was based on (seemingly) overly strict international regulations which have since been relaxed?

In the meantime:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8637978.stm

Re: Airports closed as volcanic ash drifts toward UK
 

Landed in luton from lisbon just over am hour ago. Was supposed to have been on a flight to gatwick on sunday and the next available flight into a proper london airport was not till next week.
Easyjet put up all its stranded passengers in lisbon in a 5 star hotel, with meals so it wasn't too bad. I did speak to some BA PASSENGERS who were only provided accommodation for 3 days, after which they were on their own.

Re: Airports closed as volcanic ash drifts toward UK
 

FLyboy ,the ash clouds from any volcano stay in the upper atmosphere for years circling the globe for decades ,heavier particles sink to the ground within a few days ,so if your trying to tell me that planes do not encounter ash from volcanoes on a regular basis then that is rubbish
As i said only the concentrated ash is capable of scouring the screen or shutting down an engine .Most pilots on this forum
http://www.pprune.org/private-flying...-merged-7.html cannot understand the thinking behind closing the air space in the way it has been done ,even they say that there has been some major ass covering simply because there is no data available from the met office as to how dense this cloud is ,they can't understand why they weren't allowed to fly lower

a typical quote from a pilot

and another

and another disillusioned pilot

like i said a gross overreaction

Re: Airports closed as volcanic ash drifts toward UK
 

Frankly the whole point is moot as planes are still taking of and landing perfectly safely in the same conditions that applied during the ban.

So Flyboy why bother arguing the point? Why not agree to disagree?:shrug:

Re: Airports closed as volcanic ash drifts toward UK
 

because that would negate the point of the discussion aspects of this forum :rolleyes:;)

Re: Airports closed as volcanic ash drifts toward UK
 

Slightly off topic But isn't this pic amazing of the volcano

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2010/04/28.jpg

Re: Airports closed as volcanic ash drifts toward UK
 

thats a beautiful picture ,wonder if the plane that took it fell out of the sky

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DISCUSSION!

More like arguing for the sake of arguing..Just like a bunch of teenagers that try to chop logic so as to get their own way or point of view accepted.

Adults however learn to compromise and sometimes compromise means just accepting you cannot change the facts or someone's opinion.

So who is going to walk away first?

Re: Airports closed as volcanic ash drifts toward UK
 

You're clearly not paying any attention to the Election Campaign then :erm: