Why haven’t we explored the alternatives to air travel seriously before? Luck, really. It certainly seems that the growth of the global aviation industry has taken place at a quiet time for Iceland’s many volcanoes.
When an Icelandic dormant volcano, dormant for 200 years, erupted near Eyjafjallajoekull (this is the actual name, not a typo) glacier, the chimney of ash that blew out did not just impact locally, but it literally clouded the European skies.
Company says thousands of customers impacted
Hotel performance at select European airports showed increases in occupancy and average room rate compared with the same week last year, as a cloud of volcanic ash grounded air travel and stranded travellers throughout the continent, according to daily data from STR Global, the leading provider of market data to the hotel industry.