Holidays Without Flying
Holidays without flying
In this age of global warming and carbon footprints, many readers have told us they wanted to travel green, and, where possible, take holidays without flying. But now we have seen other factors that have quite simply put people off flying
April 2010 saw complete disruption to the air industry in Europe. A major crisis erupted out of the blue that cast a highly disturbing light on the peculiarly contorted way in which we are now governed. The Icelandic volcano shambles had striking parallels with the foot-and-mouth crisis of 2001.
What turned that shower of abrasive volcanic dust from a drama into a crisis was the central flaw in a new international system for responding to such incidents, which was put in place only last September. As everyone now recognises, the emptying of the skies which plunged Europes airlines into chaos was a grotesque overreaction to the reality of the risks involved. It left thousands of people stranded wishing that they thought about holidays without flying.
Within two days, the amount of ash over northern Europe was at barely one per cent of the official danger level. But the authorities were locked by international rules into a rigid bureaucratic system, based on a computer model, which gave them no alternative but to close down air traffic for days longer than was justified. The real flaw in the system was that it made no provision for testing that crude computer model against actual real-life data, which could have shown that the computer was vastly exaggerating the risk.
With losses soaring towards 2 billion, the airlines, led by British Airways, acted to break the official blockade. BAs Willie Walsh told the authorities that he had 22 aircraft already in the sky, heading for Britain and the serried ranks of officialdom buckled, rushing to explain that they had only been doing their jobs in acting by the rule book. It was, of course, that rule book which was at fault, because it gave exclusive authority to a computer model not up to the task.
So why not hire a motorhome for a peaceful relaxed holiday. So talk to us about holidays without flying, call 0800 612 8719 to hire a motorhome.
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