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Originally Posted by HarryT
There was an item on the news this morning, saying that, while this may be inconveniencing a lot of passengers, it's a disaster for several countries in East Africa, whose economy is dependent upon selling fresh fruit and veg, and flowers, to Europe by air. Kenya, they said, gets 20% of its income from this, and employs a million people in the industry, and so far 6,000 tons of fruit and flowers has had to be thrown out, at a loss of £2m per day this problem persists.
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Yes, that started coming to light during the weekend - the 'hidden' costs of this sad story.
Interesting that airline test flights, during the weekend, were all okay, but the official Met Office flight met a 'complex' set of ash plumes....
Each could be correct; leading to the worry that the plane that you are on could encounter an ash plume, whilst the flight 5 minutes later or at a slightly different altitude may not.
Airlines are losing money - surely better than losing an aircraft and passengers .... ?