Robert Peston, the Business editor of the BBC writes in his blog:
“(British Airways executives) are beginning to question whether the Met Office’s computer model of the ash cloud is exaggerating its size. They claim that satellite pictures do not corroborate the Met’s computerised simulation of the cloud.
“It is possible that the Met Office is being too cautious”, an airline executive said to me.
There’s also a growing concern among airline executives that the government is not engaged enough on what they see as a catastrophe which – if airports don’t reopen soon – will spread from financially stretched airlines to any business dependent on aircraft for shipping goods.”
(In the picture, an aircraft maintenance worker covers a jet engine at Belfast City Airport, Northern Ireland, Friday, April, 16, 2010.
ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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