A few weeks ago we had a widely predicted end of the world event when British Airways and its trade union had a handbag fight over something. The staff went on strike and claimed to have grounded the airline; the airline claimed that they were largely unaffected and they had kept flying albeit by using pilots as trolley dollies. That must have made for a good crew working atmosphere when the real staff came back. "You want a coffee captain, get it yourself asshole, you obviously know how since you were doing it last week".
Anyhow this rather feeble attempt to close down the skies over Britain has just been put into stark relief by an "Act of God". On Iceland a volcano has started to erupt in the Eyjafjallajoekull area, (no I have no idea how you pronounce that). It is dumping a vast cloud of volcanic ash over the UK and Western Europe. Result, all, repeat all, UK airports are closed down. Jet engines don't run too well on volcanic ash it seems and rather than risk a few falling out of the sky the National Air Traffic Service has closed the skies for today at least.
A case of God 1: Unions and Airlines 0
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