After the six day crisis of the "no flight zone" over the UK leaving Brits stranded abroad and holidaymakers stuck in the UK airports due to the volcanic explosion in Iceland, planes are finally back in the skies as the aviation industry has been given the go ahead to lift off.
However, despite the flight ban being lifted, over 15,000 British holidaymakers are still stuck abroad as airlines struggle to keep up with the backlog of over 100,000 cancelled flights.
In some countries, holidaymakers have stated that a number of local shops have increased the prices of goods as a bid to get more out of the situation.
Airlines are expected to lose over £1.5 billion as a result as insurers of thousands of holidaymakers stay hanging on their tails, fighting for compensation following the incident.
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I've never been so happy about not being able to go on holiday! I was meant to be going to Spain last week, would have hated to spend a few nights on one of Heathrows benches just for a three day trip to Spain, where I know most of which would be spend recovering from the days lost at the airport and on the phone to my boss asking for and extended holiday or at least unpaid leave!
ReplyDeletemy parents were stuck in the US and i missed them like crazy. they didnt have much information over there at all and i had to keep filling them in. i dont think the situation was handled very well was it?
ReplyDeleteAnnnnnnnnnnd guess what! A week later, the volcanic ash is back and there may be a second flight ban. So, is it a bird? Is it a plane? Nope, it's a bird!!! (sorry, had to do that):)
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