YellowMellow
The British Airways incident and the present ash cloud are two vastly different situations. The BA flight encounterd that ash within a couple hundered miles of the eruption not several thousand miles away like the case is now. The two conditions are like chalk and cheese.
I heard the Captain of the BA flight being interviewed the other day and in his opinion the actions of the airlines that were flying was quite safe. In fact he was surprised at the actions of the likes of Qantas.