by HARLEM SALLE

Created on: April 23, 2010

I can understand how a bit of anger can be foreseen just by reading the title of this post, and it is completely reasonable I think. But its just one of those things that I'm completing disagreeing with. I am a man of understanding, I listen to people, I take a persons opinion and I listen to them. I am an understanding man, yet I listen and do not judge.

However on this occasion I find it hard to dismiss the sheer recklessness and that obtuse tendency that comes from reading such annoying news coverage of such.

It is with regards to the flight ban over Europe, due to the unforeseen and unprecedented volcanic eruption on Iceland. It had been 200 years since EYJAFJALLAJOKULL volcano erupted. No time like the present. I have read a BBC, CNN and many other top news media vents about this subject.

A particular article regarding how, it was not necessary, such long delays and airspace should have been opened sooner, now the flight ban is lifted. These statements coming form the evil money obsessed CEO’s and owners of the worlds airline company’s. What a surprise?

I would like to say how absurd some parts of this particular story where to me. How can airline owners truly think this crisis was dealt with poorly and airspace should have opened sooner?

“I think if they'd sent up planes immediately to see whether the ash was actually too dangerous... we would have been back flying a lot sooner “-Sir Richard Branson Chairman, Virgin Group

What a ridiculous comment. And what if this test was fatal for the pilots and scientists aboard, would then people have seen reason and realized this is serious. We are talking about human life here, HUMAN LIFE. Is it not best to be safe than sorry, rather than just the want to continue to make money, something that in the coming months can be dealt with accordingly?

I think the people that are complaining that the flight ban was too much, are consumed by money and care little for human well being - fullstop.

It has been dealt with well and it was a good idea to ground flights all over the world. Why can’t people accept this was an act of nature and the manner it was dealt was safe and reasonable. How can those extremely rich millionaires worry about money, when the risk of an accident due to this floating debris from the Volcanic eruption, was in fact a very high.

The main point that it may have been dangerous is enough to stop flights and keep people safe. But all the articles with companies complaining how much money they lost, how law suits from all over world, will be filed, fought and chased due to the money lost. It is too much and quite frankly, wrong?

Nothing tragic happened, we are safe, it was less than a week of disruption, and it would have been a lifetime of guilt if something did go wrong. Count your lucky stars it didn’t, so those stupid CEO, founders, owners, what ever you may be, people listen up, let it go, move on, forget about it, money will be made back, you damn well know it, airlines will continue to fly as always, and that volcano might cease to erupt for another two hundred years. Humans are safe; this should be something to appreciate? It really should.

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