{"id":54,"date":"2010-04-18T16:28:08","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T00:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/golde\/?p=54"},"modified":"2010-09-23T13:32:28","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T21:32:28","slug":"cya-cover-your-ash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/golde\/2010\/04\/18\/cya-cover-your-ash\/","title":{"rendered":"CYA – Cover Your Ash!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Due to the recent volcanic explosions in Iceland, a cloud of volcanic ash has covered most of Europe.\"new_airports_map\" This has caused thousands of flights to be cancelled. \u00a0TUI<\/a>, the largest travel operator in Germany, was forced to take a pricey manoeuvre to get passengers from the Spanish island of Mallorca home. \u00a0After getting to Barcelona, 540 customers were provided with a hotel room for the night, and than tossed on a 20-hour bus ride to Frankfurt. \u00a0Wow. \u00a0I’ve had a flight be cancelled before, and have been compensated with a night in a hotel, but there was always a later flight. \u00a0Imagine having to take a 20-hour bus ride for only a 2 hour-ish flight? \u00a0Ouch! \u00a0On top of the current economic crises in Europe due to Greece, the effects of this ash cloud effecting more than just airlines, could potentially be catastrophic to an already weakened economy. Daniel Gros, director of the Center for European Policy Studies in Brussels stated,”Given that the recovery of the euro-area economy is anyway so weak, it might have an impact.\u201d \u00a0This ash cloud is effecting any occupations form airlines to agriculture. \u00a0Unless the cloud clears up soon, Europe needs to do whatever they can to cover their ash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Volcanic Ash May Weigh On European Economy Due to the recent volcanic explosions in Iceland, a cloud of volcanic ash has covered most of Europe. This has caused thousands of flights to be cancelled. \u00a0TUI, the largest travel operator in Germany, was forced to take a pricey manoeuvre to get passengers from the Spanish island […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1577,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/golde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/golde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/golde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/golde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1577"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/golde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/golde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/golde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/golde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/golde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/golde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}