Gracy Bee

On the News

Posted on May 2nd, 2007 by GracyBee.
Categories: General.

My job I realised are greatly affected by natural disasters, terrorist attacks and all, and these days, I scanned through the newspapers to get myself prepared for the day of work.

Some of the normal ones are the bad weathers such as snow storms and typhoons that may mean delay to some arrival and departure flights. If such cases happened, our office will like be war zone to prepare for the affected passengers on board.

By far, the worst case ever happened in my 1 month plus here is the recent temporary closure of Sri Lankan International Airport due to rebel attacks. As such news means serious consequences, we cannot allow planes to fly and let passengers on board.

In a day, there were thousands of passengers connecting to Sri Lanka from Singapore affected and we have to make arrangements for them. I myself did 2 flights like that.

On a personal level, I felt sad. After all, the airport of any country is important as it symbolised the respective country which I’m sure people would look at the airport first before anything else if they want to judge that country. The reputation of Sri Lanka may be affected now. I’m sure there are reasons behind such violence attacks but I don’t know what it is. I have to admit that I don’t know about the history of what has happened before. I have imagined the fear, despair and annoyance on the social and political aspects; and the anger from the rebel’s point of view.

At the time of writing, the airport is still closed, according to Channel News Asia. As I’m more of a peace person, I do hope all will cease in due time and let the airport open again. That way, we can allow our passengers on board to their destinations safely and punctually.

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