Icelandic Volcanic Eruption - Significant Disruption to UK Flights

Cosimo · 20 Apr 2010 at 16:24

anticonscience said:
The end is nigh!

Their end or ours?

4p · 20 Apr 2010 at 16:25

-Tauren- said:
i guess a lot of people (like myself) are unaware that this is happening. it is pretty scary thinking of it. oh man im gonna miss technology so much, thats assuming i survive! heh..

"Theres an app for that"

Amp34 · 20 Apr 2010 at 16:26

Thorpy said:
The upward movement of the Yellowstone caldera floor—almost 3 inches (7.6 cm) each year

Scary stuff

And the lake seems to have flowed from one side of the park to the other...

Mobius 1 · 20 Apr 2010 at 16:26

Thorpy said:
"Theres an app for that"

if there's one thing i wont miss, thats apple

Robbo · 20 Apr 2010 at 16:28

-Tauren- said:
if there's one thing i wont miss, thats apple

They should have made a decent browser instead of turning 90% of websites into Apps

manoz · 20 Apr 2010 at 16:29

-Tauren- said:
i guess a lot of people (like myself) are unaware that this is happening. it is pretty scary thinking of it. oh man im gonna miss technology so much, thats assuming i survive! heh..

dunno, I think it'd be nice to go back to our roots.

ChroniC · 20 Apr 2010 at 16:30

Thorpy said:
Nahhhh we'll be fine without the sun

To be pedantic, it wouldnt entirely block out the sun to the whole planet. Infact it would only cover the united states in ash, and cause harm to that half of the globe. There would be mass distruption amongst the worlds nations, but life would continue fairly well in places not showered by the jet stream of dust

antijoke · 20 Apr 2010 at 16:32

ChroniC said:
To be pedantic, it wouldnt entirely block out the sun to the whole planet. Infact it would only cover the united states in ash, and cause harm to that half of the globe. There would be mass distruption amongst the worlds nations, but life would continue fairly well in places not showered by the jet stream of dust

Srsly?

4p · 20 Apr 2010 at 16:32

ChroniC said:
To be pedantic, it wouldnt entirely block out the sun to the whole planet. Infact it would only cover the united states in ash, and cause harm to that half of the globe. There would be mass distruption amongst the worlds nations, but life would continue fairly well in places not showered by the jet stream of dust

Depends on a lot of things though doesn't it. If Ash from Icelandic volcano can hit Canada's borders then something of that scale can certainly spread a far if the conditions were right.

Too big to comprehend like, scary.

Mobius 1 · 20 Apr 2010 at 16:32

Robboftw said:
They should have made a decent browser instead of turning 90% of websites into Apps

they need to take a leaf out of google's books

manoz said:
dunno, I think it'd be nice to go back to our roots.

i think i'll wait to pass judgment on that one

GJ02 · 20 Apr 2010 at 16:33

its ok if its just the usa in ash i suppose

Baz · 20 Apr 2010 at 16:40

Back to our roots, that would mean this forum would bo on cave walls or smoke signals ....

"Quick, to the 'tinternet, I mean cave wall!"

VFR_KID · 20 Apr 2010 at 16:55

BBC are claiming the wind direction is due to change

See half way down this article

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8631889.stm

jas72 · 20 Apr 2010 at 16:58

userunknown said:
i bet we get a volcano tax now !

Probably said in jest but compy from the taxpayer is already being talked about.

The government let huge swathes of industry bite the dust I certainly hope there is no bail out of any airlines :mad:

GJ02 · 20 Apr 2010 at 17:06

jas72 said:
I certainly hope there is no bail out of any airlines

i do as i make aeroplanes, and without a bailout we will have 35,000 + workers unemployed
and the government has just pumped millions into our business

antijoke · 20 Apr 2010 at 17:10

So we are in the middle of a financial crisis with us having billions of debt and we should give some more out? Great idea.

clv101 · 20 Apr 2010 at 17:13

There shouldn't be bailouts for airlines. The whole point of private enterprise is that your money is at risk. If you make the right decisions then your business is a success and if you don't then it fails.

If a week's grounding is enough to bankrupt these businesses then they should fail. They should have planed for such an event. 9/11 should have been a wakeup call, and the possibilities of a volcano has always been real. They should have charged slightly higher prices and maintained cash reserves (invested in such as way as they deliver reasonable returns) so they could survive such a grounding.

If the market couldn't support slighted higher prices needed, then the volume should have decreased. It now looks like the aviation industry screwed up. They created too much capacity, priced it too low, which left their finances so weak that wholly predictable oil price variations and the odd shock event can bankrupt them.

Cheap flights aren't sustainable if at the first sign of trouble the airlines go bust. A sustainable price would deliver robust finances and the ability to survive unexpected external shocks.

Radiation · 20 Apr 2010 at 17:35

Isn't it about time they came up with a new engine, perhaps some sort of device that works as well as i imagine an antigravity one might?

Jokester · 20 Apr 2010 at 17:35

Problem is the Market would reward those that were cheaper forcing airlines that attempted to horde cash for a rainy day out of business.

Westyfield2 · 20 Apr 2010 at 17:40

Just Got Home

Westyfield2 said:
Just got into the office, can barely see a thing outside - soo much ash!

Or not!

ZOMG the dust clouds are coming for me!!!

Actually that was the worst bit in the sky, everything else is still clear!

It better stay clear for the rugby tonight...