About a week and a half ago the Eruption of an Icelandic Volcano forced the shutdown of airspace over much of Eurpe and left thousands of people stranded with no way of getting home. I was in Munich at the time and my friends and I had to hire a bus driver to drive 50 of us back to Barcelona from Munich since our flights were all cancelled. Even though the Ash cloud originated in Iceland, surprisingly the country´s airports have not been closed until April 22 since the winds had forced the Ash cloud to other parts of Europe. Since the winds had died down, the Ash cloud began to settle over Iceland. At its peak, the crisis affected 1.2 million passengers a day and 29% of global aviation. One can only imagnie how much money these airline companies lost as a result of the volcano´s ash cloud, which was numbered in the billions of dollars. The spectacular event was the worst disruption of air traffic since the September 11 attacks in 2001. The crisis started on April 14 when the Eyjafjallajokull glacier erupted on April 14 and sent a huge cloud of ash into the atmosphere.
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