Ashes

We're seeing something that doesn't happen very often, skies clear of con trails, due to the ash cloud drifting over Europe from an Icelandic volcano, I don't know how much longer this will go on, there are people stranded all over the place...the authorities say don't fly your planes...too dangerous - but I see today that Dutch and German airlines are playing around with putting them up to see what happens.

Now, I understand that they're losing money, it'll be be tax payers will have to bail them out...again! They're looking to prove that it's safe, and it might be, for a percentage of the aircraft that don't hit trouble, but what if one does? How many lives will it cost? Is it worth it?

Someone very dear to me, and her hubby, are going to fly off to the States to visit the Grand Canyon this year at some point, I wouldn't want them going off into the skies in something like that, and I'm pretty sure that most people would feel the same about their loved ones lives being put at risk in order to maintain a healthy profit margin. But that's all we are to big corporations isn't it? Margin, the difference between big bucks and our safety, and guess which one has priority?

And if the worst happens, the only ones besides us crying and losing sleep will be the insurance companies that underwrite the risks taken by these pieces of crap in suits.

I hope good sense prevails!