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Airlines assess financial damage as European air traffic resumes Thursday April 22, 2010 Resource Center
With air traffic beginning to return to normalcy in Europe, airlines are tallying the bill for the six-day disruption in service caused by volcanic ash, with IATA estimating cumulative lost revenue at $1.7 billion.
Almost all European airspace was available for commercial flights Wednesday, with more than 75% of scheduled flights expected to take place, the first day more than half had operated since April 14 (ATWOnline, April 21). Air France, for example, confirmed it was able to operate a "nearly" normal flight schedule. The one airline still seriously affected was Finnair owing to heavy concentrations of ash in airspace above southern Finland.
IATA said the brunt of the revenue hit was borne by Europe's carriers. British Airways estimated that lost passenger and cargo revenue combined with costs incurred supporting stranded passengers amounted to £15 million ($23 million)-£20 million per day. Ryanair said it expects it lost €6 million ($8.1 million) per day April 15-22.
At the peak of cancellations over the weekend and Monday, airlines were losing $400 million in revenue daily, IATA said. DG and CEO Giovanni Bisignani said the airspace closures "impacted 29% of global aviation and affected 1.2 million passengers a day. The scale of the crisis eclipsed 9/11 when US airspace was closed for three days."
IATA noted that there were cost savings related to flight groundings. The industry's daily fuel bill was $110 million less than normal, it said, but added that carriers faced added costs related to stranded passenger care.
To mitigate the financial impact, Bisignani called on EU states to relax airport slot rules and bans on night flights and address the "unfair" EU Passenger Rights Regulation 261/2004 (ATWOnline, April 16). "This is an act of God, completely outside of the control of airlines," he said at a Berlin press conference. "Insurers are looking at it this way. But with the current regulation, airlines are bearing the complete burden for hotel, food and telephone."
He also urged governments to examine ways to compensate airlines for lost revenue similar to compensation paid in the aftermath of 9/11 (ATWOnline, April 20). "I am the first one to say that this industry does not want or need bailouts," he said. "But this crisis is not the result of running our business badly. It is an extraordinary situation exaggerated by a poor decision-making process by national governments. The airlines could not do business normally. Governments should help carriers recover the cost of this disruption."
by Cathy Buyck
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