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“The scale of this crisis is now greater than 9/11 when US air space was closed for three days. In lost revenue alone, this is costing the industry at least $200 million a day. On top of that, airlines face added costs of extra fuel for re-routing and passenger care – hotel, food and telephone calls.”  said Giovanni Bisignani, IATA’s director general and CEO. 

You can read the rest of Bisignani complaints here http://aviationblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2010/04/european-union-conferring-on-w.html.

You sir, are a jackass. 

Inconvenience caused by a volcanic ash, is not a target terrorist attack.

No one knows with 100% of accuracy if a plane will be impacted by ash depending on its flight path or elevations.  If one falls from the sky due to a rush to judgement, I guess he will know.

Maybe he is tired of looking at the mostly clear skies? Maybe the conspiracy of an invisible cloud has passed?  Maybe the reports by NATO’s F-16’s showing engine damage aren’t enough to convince him to wait a few days? Maybe he’s just ignorant?

I know with 100% accuracy that the nearly 4,000 or so people who lost their lives on September 11, would love to be stuck sitting alive somewhere waiting for a ride home.  Maybe Bisignani doesn’t know anyone on the list who died?  Did you?http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/memorial/lists/by-name/index.html

That one day changed forever how the world looks at everything from airport security to terrorism.  It took civil liberties away in the name of safety so much so, that many of the U.S. airports now require an X-ray of your body, let alone your luggage. 

To make a comparison to the quiet skies on the days following 9/11 is one thing.  To compare financial devastation and inconvenience in an effort to mitigate a solution, is absurd.

Just whose fault is it that there was no emergency volcano ash plan in place?  Giovanni Bisignani, IATA’s director general and CEO, that’s who.

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