Monday, April 19, 2010

Who Has the Power to Say: You Can Fly Again?

The question of standards for returning to safe flying, and ultimately which authority governs those standards, is being voiced in travel and business forums.

from Conde Nast Traveler
http://clivealive.truth.travel/2010/04/who-has-the-power-to-say-you-can-fly-again.html

The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/20/world/europe/20ash.html?ref=global-home

Telegraph (UK)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/7607216/Iceland-volcano-air-restrictions-are-excessive-says-European-Commission.html


A knotty set of issues, to be sure, but also one about leadership and the political will to recognize how twenty-first century global air travel can't necessarily be managed through antiquated, territorial and finally nation-based forms of governance.

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