If the airlines can sustain the lossess due to the ashes it means that a limited european pilot industrial action should not be out of the question.
It looks as if we were the weak part of this conflict, but in fact we are so much stronger than the airline managers, the industry and the policitians together.
If only we had the balls one day everybody would learn that, and things would improve promptly. But seemingly we prefer the role of defenseless wifes abused by their husbands. Inlcuding some Stockholm syndrome.