Comment du Jour

19 April


Trans-Atlantic Gap???


In the wake of the Iraq war in 2003, there were countless predictions of a
widening Trans-Atlantic Gap.

The USA and some European states appeared at political loggerheads.

Now there's an unparallelled air travel crisis.

Along comes a forgotten volcano in Iceland, and we have a REAL Trans-Atlantic Gap--perhaps a Gulch. We can't fly to Europe and Europeans can't fly here to the USA. The belching volcanic smoke, the plumes of ash, and the threat to airliners have for all practical purposes cut Europe off from America.

Thousands of flights have been cancelled. Commerce has been put on hold. Air Trasportation frozen. Millions of people have been affected. Even the Al Qaida terrorists were thankfully never able to totally shut down airspace for so long and so totally as Mother Nature.

The Pond has re-emerged as the Atlantic Ocean.