Navy to rescue "Volcanoe Victims"

Makes a good headline doesn't it? The newspapers and radio news are sprouting this nonsense headline that our wonderful Royal Navy are sending three warships to rescue those stranded in Europe by the flight cancellations caused by the ash cloud from the Icelandic Volcanoe eruption.
Rescue? RESCUE! These people went by choice, by and large on holiday. They are hardly in peril. If anything they are getting an enforced extended holiday. What hardship they must be in, stuck in a holiday destination that they chose, because they wanted to go there. If the Navy are to be invovled they should treat the servicemen returning from Afghanistan as their first priority - they are all stranded in Cypus, and worse of all Spain, haven't seen their families in months and have been stuck in a hell hole being shot at in a place they didn't want to go in the first place.
Amongst the news comes a secondary headline that British Airways is losing a million pound a day (although insert your own figure here, as each account varies and is probably a made up number anyway) I can understand that they have staff wages to pay, which will cost tehm a little, but think of what they are saving on fuel! Plus they can get loads of maintenance down, repaint the airports, - use this time constructivley airports people. In fact if you are paying the airheaded hostesses, give them a paintbrush and see if they can get the same high gloss finish on the lavvy walls that they manage on thier fingernails.
Apparently BA are paying money to support passengers until flights resume, paying for out of pocket expenses and hotel accommodation etc. Excuse me? What exactly is holiday insurance for then? If I go on a trip I pay insurance for this very eventuality - it's not cheap, but that's the luck of the gamble. So far I've never needed it, but if I did end up stuck in Disney land for a couple of months AVIVA or their underwriters would pay for me to ride around the Buzz Lightyear rollercoaster until my arms fell off. And then they'd pay BUPA to stitch them back on again. So if some Schmuck has tried to save a few bob by waiving the insurance, tough luck. You gambled, you lost, you're living in a tent at teh airport and eating your own shoes, or you're walking back to England and better get a few lessons from God on how to walk on water. I see no reason why BA has any financial or moral obligation to you just because of a bit of ash in the air stops their aeroplanes from working properly.