Emirates Airlines puts volcano cost at $65 million

Emirates Airlines said on Tuesday that it has lost about 65 million dollars after cancelling 250 flights due to volcanic ash over Europe. "We're down to about 60 million dollars of income depletion, and we've got the five or six million dollars we're spending" on accommodation for stranded passengers, said the airline's president, Tim Clark.
"Emirates has actually had to cancel about 250 of its flights" so far, he told a news conference. There were up to "100,000 passengers on the (Emirates) network who have been disrupted and "we've now had about 2,000 tonnes of cargo disrupted," Clark said. Emirates was on Tuesday re-routing some flights scheduled for European countries where airspace is closed to nearby states with open airspace, to get passengers "as close to their destination as possible."