I was just reading an article on guardian.co.uk about the disruptions to travel in Europe and England in particular.
One thing that had an effect on me was reading that the night-flights ban would be relaxed.
It just makes so much sense to chuck certain rules overboard at certain times and go into creative solution finding mode. If you have thousands of people and hundreds of planes stuck during a day-snowstorm, then by nightfall have all the runways clear; why shouldn't you then fly though the night and get everyone where they need to be?
I think that's what our system, politics and European treaties should really be able to encourage. If you have a special situation have a brainstorming session with ideas that are out of the box and just try and get the solution.
Maybe you could argue that a lot of peoples sleep will be impacted by such actions, i.e. planes landing and taking off through the night. But isn't that what Christmas is about, sharing? Sharing a burden in this case.
In any case I feel it makes a lot of sense to let thousands, if not tens of thousands of people travel at this time. As I read the passengers whose flights are being cancelled don't stand too much chance of getting regular flights in next days, as they are of course heavily booked in any event. This snow has compounded the problem.
So yeah, I think it makes a lot of sense to give airlines nighttime slots....
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