Alternate Routing Around Ash Cloud
1. What are the issues involved in the carriers and governments setting up new routes from UK/Europe that fly South instead of North?
2. How much will this increase the times, distances, and fuel loads involved?
3. I assume that the main issues really have to do with takeoff and landing vectoring and lack of radar sites and operators to handle all the equipment?
4. How come their isn't some kind of contingency plan for this already?
5. I would assume that with vast amounts of money being lost, the carriers would be all over this, but I don't see much news on the subject. However I just saw that an Air France flight made it from Paris to NYC today and all I heard was that it flew South.