NO you can’t have my money! Compensation for airlines is a ridiculous proposition that pretends to justify its claim on the basis that there is a pot of unallocated gold buried on a beach somewhere that our government has but doesn’t know what to do with. If it exists I want my share back, you can’t have it. Small companies’ don’t get compensation by government when circumstances conspire to damage their businesses so what makes airlines a special case?
What about all the other numerous local businesses affected like car hire companies, hotel owners, taxi firms etc are they not equally justified in a share of the pot of gold. Surely the oil companies should also be compensated I bet they also lost a fortune.
The justification for the claim is that the long established criteria for closing air space had never been disputed successfully before the event occurred. This was such a complicated task that after only a few days it was established that the risk was less than previously believed. Perhaps the travelling public and tax payers should be seeking compensation from the airline industry for not preventing this from happening in the first place.
Meanwhile the probability of this reoccurring is extremely high in the near future and certain in the long term. I only hope somebody is tasked with solving the engineering involved and calculating the maximum safe limit for the problem because I am certain that when this happens again there will be a new higher number of particles per million that will become an acceptable risk.
