{"id":535735,"date":"2010-04-20T14:28:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T18:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/boris-johnson-ash-london-2010-4"},"modified":"2010-04-20T14:28:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T18:28:00","slug":"mayor-of-london-warns-the-ash-flight-ban-could-be-indefinite-and-we-need-to-prepare-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/535735","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Of London Warns: The Ash Flight Ban Could Be INDEFINITE And We Need To Prepare For It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4bcdf3977f8b9a36308b0000\/keep-calm-and-carry-on.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Keep Calm And Carry On\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Mayor of London Boris Johnson raised the specter of an &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/travel\/travelnews\/7610987\/Iceland-volcano-Boris-Johnson-voices-fears-of-indefinite-flight-ban.html\">indefinite<\/a>&#8221; flight ban for the UK&#8217;s capital today as he warned the country to prepare for the worst.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson said that the UK needs to start thinking realistically about the longer term implications of a ban on air travel, as the risks of flight continue to remain high.<\/p>\n<p>He also questioned the legitimacy of the flight ban, noting voices in the aviation industry who believe planes can safely fly in the current ash scenario.<\/p>\n<p>But Johnson wants the UK to prepare for a ban anyway, noting that this instability could last for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/travel\/travelnews\/7610987\/Iceland-volcano-Boris-Johnson-voices-fears-of-indefinite-flight-ban.html\">6 to 12 months<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Flights remain grounded across parts of Europe, with London in a particularly dire situation.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/eyjafjallajokull-ash-crisis-business-2010-4#loser-formula-one-racing-1\">Check Out 20 Winners And Losers From The Ongoing Ash Crisis &gt;<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4bcdf04a7f8b9a7910ac0900\/flight-map-europe.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Flight Map Europe\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/boris-johnson-ash-london-2010-4#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/_L4V-HDw6yg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mayor of London Boris Johnson raised the specter of an &#8220;indefinite&#8221; flight ban for the UK&#8217;s capital today as he warned the country to prepare for the worst. Johnson said that the UK needs to start thinking realistically about the longer term implications of a ban on air travel, as the risks of flight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}