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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