A Tough Decision?
Rab-K - Your earlier post is twaddle. BA would not have just kept flying from day 1. After 5 days on FIR closure a DECISION needed to be made. Keep up the same position or open airspace. It's far easier to close it on safety grounds than open it on the same. But at some point a decision needed to be made. If WW helped get that one way or the other then good.
Inaction and hesitation are no more the friends of safety than knee-jerk, just do-it are. After 5 days and most EU FIR's starting to operate the UK was in danger of being the 'first ones in and the last ones out'.
And anyone who thinks that commercials are not heavily in play on all of this are much mistaken. No Buck, no Buck Rogers as they used to say in Flight Test.
As I said, I'd sooner have people who step up to the plate and make a decision than keep examining their naval fluff until someone else makes the decision for them.
We didn't go to the moon by waiting for the all clear from every quarter let alone getting to and from JFK. 'Decision height'. Captain Walsh called it.