With the news that one of its aeroplanes plus 240 plus passengers and crew from 32 different nationalities has gone missingm how will this affect consumer confidence?
After all, non-one wants to get on an Airbus if there is a chance it can simply and rather precipitously drop out of the sky.
Clearly they need to find the black box to ascertain what hapened, but this may take a while.
If it takes a long time will the natural "it always happen to someone else" feeling offset the nervousness, or will passenger numbers fall off?
If so, whither airlines? After all they're already struggling.
Coleyman
