Britain's airspace was closed under false pretences, with satellite images revealing there was no doomsday volcanic ash cloud over the entire country. Skies fell quiet for six days, leaving as many as 500,000 Britons stranded overseas and costing airlines hundreds of millions of pounds.
Estimates put the number of Britons still stuck abroad at 30,000
However, new evidence shows there was no all-encompassing cloud and, where dust was present, it was often so thin that it posed no risk.'
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Apparently, some people think that this was an elaborate scam to cleverly hike up the air fares after the volcano ash fiasco. Of course people who have to pay to travel back and firth will just pay up.
ReplyDeleteWho can you trust these days?