Originally Posted by waren9
Only serves to strengthen my view. QF and JQ no-fly decision is purely political. Absolutely nothing to do with safety and by that I mean responsible, intelligent, educated and informed risk management.
QF and JQ have Senate Inquiry and CASA hot potatoes to deal with and they want to spin whatever positive safety message they can as they simply do not want any heat associated with any form of ash event at all.....
^^^^That's exactly the reason why QF/J* didn't fly.
No carrier has ever suffered damage to an airframe if they've avoided flying through visible ash (which can't be done at night, of course).