My point is who gets to decide?- the risks are known there are proceedures in place to deal with it, blanket bans are not the answer
Surely the point is that the risks are
not known to any degree of precision and there are not procedures in place to deal with them - other than the measures currently taken. It's a continuously changing situation. If I were running an airline I wouldn't want to base my decision on whether one gung-ho individual were willing to risk his life flying through or near volcanic ash. And I wouldn't want to risk reducing large number of jet engines to scrap metal even if nothing actually hit the ground in an unfortunate manner.
I'm no fan of big government, still less of Gordon McBroun, but to see current measures as manifestations of the nanny state, or of dreaded eurodomination (eek!), and to want to key decisions in current conditions left to individual airlines, or individual pilots, seem lunatic to me.
Remind me not to fly with you any time soon.