04-16-2010, 12:52 PM
steinjr Wrote:Well, it certainly will be a inconvenience if air traffic remains grounded for weeks or even months.
Btw - train related - people working on the airport express train are being laid off - apparently no one wants to go to the airport when there is no flights ...
If this thing lasts for a while, it might be smarter to redeploy the airport express train sets to intercity traffic instead of leaving them idle and leaving people out of work - all intercity trains are already filled to the gills by people trying to get places without airplanes ...
Time will show what happens next.
Stein
I presume that everyone who was in the airport waiting for a flight that was canceled has already been evacuated from the airport? I saw on the AOL news page that many flights are being diverted to Southern European airports, but that is causing back ups in those airports due to them trying to handle two or three times as much traffic as they were design for or are accustomed to. Trains may be a solution for the Europeans, but it makes it difficult for Americans either stranded in Europe or for Europeans wanting to get home from the U.S. They just haven't completed that bridge over the Atlantic from the U.S. to the West Coast of England, yet!