growth to continue twenty eighteen or more sustainable pace of around four percent tourism is one of the world s leading export sectors so the growth is welcome news it could lead to more job creation in trouble and hospitality interest in asian countries. they go wider faster the a three eighty was supposed to be nothing less than a revolution of a global air travel its model planes equipped with cocktail lounge and gym but the two story super jumbo was a slow seller right from the start and now it could phase the end of production all together as most important customer emirates simply isn t ordering enough planes to keep the a three eighty program a life. what was hoped to be the company s biggest success is turning into a disappointing defeat with just over three hundred planes sold and few on order airbus says it will stop making the a three eighty super jumbo if it doesn t get more business from top client emirates which is now buying planes from boeing
turn off our cell phones. in our a.m. original series texting too much, we ll look at the epidemic of cell phones in schools. teachers who have given up trying to collect them all and whether the technology can be put to good use in a classroom. of course the a.m. fix blog is up and running. join the live conversation right now. we want to hear from you about what s in the news this morning. go to cnn.com/amfix and we ll read some comments in the next hour. well, air travel is kicking up again slowly but surely in europe. officials have reopened 75% of the air space and planes have been taking off and landing since last night. one notable exception, though, the air space over northwest scotland is still choked by volcanic ash. it is still closed this morning. it will take weeks, though, for global air travel to completely return to normal. one airline in hong kong says lit not be booking any new flights in order for two weeks in order to catch up with the backlog. heathrow in londo
chaos around the world may be gaining strength and sending more ash toward england. european officials earlier declared they will be ready to reopen large sections of airspace in a matter of hours. five days after the eruption in iceland stalled global air travel. controllers will stop having will still have to keep the planes from flying into no fly zones where the volcanic ash is the heaviest. this plan is supposed to give at least a bit of hope to all those passengers who have camped out for days in airport limbo it? is expensive being here for an extra ten days that you haven t planned for. we have been at the airport for the past three nights. we have to go back airport wednesday. from there, who knows? staying in a hotel. commuting to the airport. waiting all day. going back to the hotel. that s pretty much it. shepard: pretty much it. there was also concern that ash from the volcanic cloud could effect air travel in canada. in facts our corporate cousins at the wall