It has now been four days that the planes over most of Europe stayed grounded and although the light at the end of the tunnel is insight the problems it has caused are far from over yet. Not only will the financial loses that the airlines and airports have an impact on the aviation markets there are also be other problems arising that have a more global impact. For example think about the employees that were on holidays and are due to return home last Thursday, the work they were suppose to be doing has not been done yet and the backlog of work needs to be caught up and paid for of course. Or what about the couriers like DHL and FedEX, the next day delivery promise has been broken and although the alternatives as shipping the packages by boat or car might have gotten the packages on the destination. They would have been late and it would have cost the companies a whole lot of cash more and let’s not forget the packages them selves that might have contained important documents or contracts to close a business deal or even a hearth or a kidney for that transplant patient waiting in the hospital. All these costs will have to be come out of somebody’s wallet and sadly enough most likely this will be paid by the EU Taxpayer, saving another airline from going bust. So just look ahead the coming months for a possible mini recession but this time we can’t blame the greedy bankers… we can only accept nature and its powerful force it still has upon us.
Archive for April, 2010
The recession cause by an ash cloud.
Sunday, April 18th, 2010If Dublin bus would give Spanish lessons…
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010After a week of travelling through the south of Spain, visiting top spots like Seville, Cordoba, Toledo and eventually Madrid it was time for me to return home to Dublin. Even though I am not a native to Ireland I do feel that after 6 years of living and working here I can call it my home. So after travelling over a thousand kilometres around in Spain in my rented Toyota Yaris which I have to admit was a fine vehicle and flying for 2 and a half hours with Aer Lingus who might be a bit more expensive then Ryan air but at least you don’t feel dirty after sitting in a plane with them (unlike Ryan air) it was time to head home. Since I spend most of my money on the holiday it was an obvious choice to take the bus which drops us off very close to the apartment anyways. For those who have never taken the airport bus serviced by Dublin Bus let me give you a small run down. The bus is actually the same as a normal Dublin bus but some seats have been removed to make space for luggage and two monitors have been fitted. Half way in to the journey you will be greeted with the poor audio quality of the recording that has to convince the tourists to take a Dublin bus tour and a ghost tour. Sadly enough the video and audio editing are so poor and amateurish that it is more laughable then convincing, the Dublin sightseeing tour shows video’s of industry pipes with smoke coming out, dread full weather and a few ugly buildings (including that of Dublin Bus in O’Connell street does not feel appealing and I don’t blame tourist for just heading in to the pub and drinking until the holidays are over. The Ghost tour video / presentation I am not even going to mention since it is equally bad if not worse. What I do want to talk about a little bit is the great way Dublin bus translates the stopping location in various languages. Someone in their marketing department must have believed that saying something in English with a Spanish accent will make the Spanish people understand. Well wrong so please guys try this out for a change,
Instead of saying:
Arriving in Central Bus station (with Spanish accent)
Try
Término de autobuses central (With any accent you like, maybe in a cork accent for comedic relief)
Anyway that was my shout out for today… It’s been a while that I have blogged but I will definitely try to work out some more posts.
