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Hot ash won’t cool the UK’s recovery

Estimates of the financial cost to the UK airline industry of the eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland are mounting. But we doubt that the economic cost of the eruption will have a material impact on the UK’s economic recovery.

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