Flyboy has obviously just got back from a two week potholing holiday in Outer Mongolia and has not yet watched the news......
I don't think you are over reacting WWW - this situation looks
extremely serious. Unfortunately right now the average airline punter's perception of getting on an aeroplane equates to climbing into a cruise missile. Of course we all know that flying is safer than it was before with the new security measures in place but there has been a huge drop in bookings post last Tuesday. Add to that the huge cost of the new security measures and the expected increase in fuel prices over fears of war in the Middle East and you are looking at a pretty grave situation for the airline industry. It's looking worse than 1991 in my view because that was due largely to the decrease in consumer confidence and raised fuel prices - but at that point we had not seen passenger jets hijacked by maniacs and flown into civilian targets - there was merely a fear over possible terrorist attacks on particularly US airlines.
Still it's not all bad, Tesco are taking on 20,000 new staff..........
