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Hey guys, I am stuck in Nice Beacause of volcanic ash from Iceland.
This eruption that started that last for 4 days have since then paralysed international and national air traffic causing thousands of air travellers to stop reorganize their trip.
Obviously this situation is out of everyone's control and its economic impact is estimated to 10 Billion dollars and touches all industries that rely on airtransportation. It wiil eventually cause holiday cancellations and probably reduce short term demand.
It is difficult to estimate how long the volcano will continue to errupt and spread ash in the sky.
I hope I will get a train tomorrow morning for Paris, otherwise I'll wait until it clears out.....
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Hi Saluquia,
RépondreSupprimerOf course this eruption is causing a lot of problem to both clients and hoteliers.
What shock me the most is how weak we are in front of this kind of situation.
In Rome, inside the airport a lot of beds were put to the clients disposal.
And in Sciacca the city where I come from (in the very South of Italy) a Bus is moving to go catching a group of student stucked in London.
In addition there were no train tickets available for this group of student...
This situation bring me to wonder if it is essential to buy an insurance which may cover this kind of force majeure obstructions.
Moreover how well are European airports reacting? is that enough to offer some bottle of water or few beds just give a good impression to medias?
In addition, I would also like to talk about a ethical issue. Do you find right that SNCFs' employee went on strike when the rest of Europe were suffering the natural disaster effects?
Where is solidarity in this situation?
Thank you,
Ignazio
Actually, I totally agree on what you said. This imprevisible situation that is almost on control at the moment has raised many issues on companies and governements reactions. Obviously it was unbarable and even a nightmare for people concerned, I was one of them but luckily, I had my problem resolved quickly. Unfortunatly, the thing is that the ash dangers appeared so suddendly that no one was really prepared to handle it. I thing that we have many lessons to learn from this chaos and we should ready to act for similar situation that might happen in the future.This few days airline trafic paralisy have for sure put a finger on the weaknesses of airline companies and the economy that is definitely dependent on it. We can presume that tomorrow's plane ingeniers will elaborate engines that prensent no danger when crossing offensive clouds....
RépondreSupprimerConcerning SNCF employees' decision to continue striking, I find that they would have had much more merit by reacting more reasonably to this unprecedented crisis if they had stopped striking. My opinion is that they didn't do so as it constituted another argument and a monstrous one for pressure against the government.
OULALALA this amazing Icelandic cloud makes people talk a lot worldwide. It's interesting to see how a natural "disaster" with a volcano blast can freeze and paralyze the whole world.
RépondreSupprimerI find an article link on my blog with the impact on the French hospitality industry with a drop of the occupancy rate that can reach 13%.
People get stuck in worldwide airport, import/export and tourism are stop and this will cost billions.
Fortunately we can see solidarity case in N.Y with free food, drinks, WiFi and foreign call.Some people are transforming there house in hostels.
On the other hand we can't count on public company in France like the SNCF to improve the situation! Last news : the air traffic may restart this Thursday and the SNCF can also stop its strike tomorrow, always too late after the worse done.
Good luck to all the people who are actually trapping worldwide.