Falco1:
With all respect to the EU regulatory bodies and their desperate attempts to come up with performance scheme and targets for the whole EU aviation industry (sounds insane to me).....and many other initiatives. to unite (towards monopolies, lets be frank about it)..., this is such a slap into face when unable to come up with alternative solutions and sound scientific analysis in a timely manner for known global aviation phenomena as volcanic ash.. Or may be my expectations are too high?
Your expectations are too high. You cannot fly jet aircraft through air significantly contaminated with Volcanic dust without damaging the engines.
Your "alternatives' are:
1. Limit the damage by avoiding flying through very dirty air.
That means either find cleaner air to fly through, or don't fly at all.
2. Accept the damage and pay the price. Exactly what that price may be, and when it will be incurred, is as yet unclear, and that is obviously the subject of much frenzied research right now.
To put it another way, we are dealing with unknowns here for the very good reason that no airline or Government, or Politician was going to pay for an extremely expensive experiment involving taking a state of the art aircraft and finding volcanic ash clouds to fly it through simply on the off chance that one day a volcano in Iceland might blow ash all over Europe.
Foot stamping does no good.