racedo - see my previous post, your talking complete rubish. If you take time to check the CAA's own regulations. The ultimate decision to close airspace in instances such as this lies with NATS. Remember the whole of Northern Europes airspace was closed. Was this a conspiracy of every government in Northern Europe? To achieve what?
Youve been watching far too much of the X files
Its a Political decision where CAA have to inform Govt in advance of what it wants to do.
Assumming that they can do what they want without reference to the Govt is a nice idea but far from reality.
Afterall why would Lord Adonis make the initial announcement if it was only CAA and nothing to do with Government whether it reopened.