Thursday 6 May 2010

travel disasters mean we're too mobile

[pic - the ash cloud]

Two related things:
snow blizzards in December/January
the six days of flight moratorium in April

I was caught by the first one. My flight was delayed by 3 days, and one overnight stay in an airport.
Here's what I discovered:

every morning, there are 8 flights from this airport to Paris. Is it possible that 2500 people want to go from N.Italy to Paris? Or are the airlines trying to push out their competitors by losing money in the short term?
I've got news for them. Banks will give them and their competitors far more than enough money to choke on. That kind of tactic will take years to declare a few winners. In the meantime, the environment pays the price.

more
soon
-Cosine67 ~~