Buy a Ticket, Be a Test Rider

The European airlines, predictably, are going apeshit over most of the airspace in Europe being shut down by the ash cloud from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano. They want to resume flying.

Which means that they are willing to play the game of "test pilot" with airplanes laden with passengers.

Here is my idea: Spread out the top management of all those airlines and make them take a seat on every flight into the vicinity of the volcanic ash cloud. That also goes for every politician over there who is blathering about the economic catastrophe from ceasing air travel and every executive in the International Air Transport Association, which is moaning about the cancellations.

Let's see if they'll back up their mouths with their fat pasty asses.