Mes: septiembre 2019

Airlines toted up losses topping $2 billion and struggled to get hundreds of thousands of travelers back home Wednesday after a week of crippled air travel, as questions and recriminations erupted over Europe’s chaotic response to the volcanic ash cloud. Civil aviation authorities defended their decisions to ground fleets and close the skies – and later to reopen them – against heated charges by airline chiefs that the decisions were based on flawed data or unsubstantiated fears. The aviation crisis sparked by a volcanic eruption in Iceland left millions in flightless limbo, created debilitating losses for airlines and other industries and even threatened Europe’s economic recovery. An aviation group called the financial fallout worse than the three-day worldwide shutdown after the 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States. It was a lesson in mankind’s dependency on air travel, the vulnerability of a vital industry, and the confusion that can ensue when each nation decides for itself how to handle a problem that crosses borders. The air space over most of Europe opened Wednesday after the vast, invisible ash-laden cloud dispersed to levels deemed safe. Restrictions remained over parts of Britain, Ireland, France and the Scandinavian countries. Volcano Releases Chokehold On Europe Air TravelIceland’s Fiery Volcano Electronic boards in Europe’s biggest hubs – London’s Heathrow, Paris’ Charles de Gaulle and Germany’s airport at Frankfurt – showed about 80 percent of...

Vice President Mike Pence called on Congress this weekend to repeal Obamacare by this summer. Senate Republican leaders say they plan to pass their version of health care reform by the end of July. But it will be difficult to get a consensus in the Senate. On Monday Senator Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said on “CBS This Morning” he has warned President Donald Trump about repealing the Affordable Care Act, saying many West Virginians (including Trump supporters) now have health care that didn’t have it before and don’t want to lose it. Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, chair of medical ethics at the University of Pennsylvania and one of the architects of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, shares his solutions for higher-quality and lower-cost health care in his latest book, “Prescription for the Future” (PublicAffairs). In it he writes: “Although the next few years may be rocky, the American healthcare system will ultimately become better performing and more affordable in the long run.” Appearing on “CBS This Morning,” Emanuel agreed there were unintended consequences of the Affordable Care Act that need to be fixed. “We had problems that were in the bill that we couldn’t solve before it got enacted,” he said. “It’s been around for seven years, so some of the problems have become obvious. Any corporation that would do a massive change like this would make constant adjustments. Because of...