can not expect them to have long term company benefit as their top priority.
Well, actually CEOs are measured on how the Airline is expected to perform over the LONG term, not the short term.
Ofcourse, earnings releases may change the expectations of investors, but it is still looking at LONG term effects not short term ones. Maybe a course in Finance 101 would be in order.
Now the Politicians, on the other hand, that many here expound for their long-term vision in "snatching us all from the clutches of death", only see as far as the next election.
Hence, unless votes may be picked up by publicly arguing for opening the airspace it will stay shut until after the elections. Now if public sentiment swings, politicians will be falling over eachother to open the airspace no matter what the risks are (albeit these will be cleverly shifted to airlines as we've seen in Austria)
