Widespread effects

As you probably could have been imagined, the aftermath of a volcano halting flights for six days would have had a profound impact on the ability of people to return home to where they live.  It also would have messed up airliners because of the fact that they had been still for six days.

My Dad and his girlfriend Krissie were actually scheduled to go to Europe on Wednesday April 21 and they were scared that the airspace would not be clear by then.  Thankfully British Airways jump started the reopening of airports by sending all of their planes back towards their home base at London Heathrow.  Due to the pressure from British Airways the London Airport Authority was forced to open the airport even though they had not planned  on opening it quite so soon.  This was a risky move by British Airways because their plan to get the airport back open could have failed miserably and then they would have had to put their planes somewhere else.

My Dad and Krissie managed to get on their flight but they said it was controlled chaos at the airport due to six days worth of passengers trying to get on any flight that they could get on.

Natural disasters such as this really bring out the worst in our airline and airport infrastructure and then worst part about it is that there is almost no way to create a contingency plan for something like this occurring.