Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100421:18:10:00
The rest of europe, normally 28,000 flights a day in european air space. today about 21,000. all of this is going to cost the airlines -- they're estimating they've lost about $1.7 billion so far and they say it'll take at least three weeks for things to get back to normal, for those aircraft to get back into their normal patterns, the crews in the right place, and the backlog of passengers to be cleared. there's a lot of recrimination going on about how the european governments waited and kept the no fly ban in place too long and the airlines have just lost too much money. everybody is quite ...