it is a low frills airlines, the ones that look to transport people with low frills with not a greateal of equipment onboard, and so that they can be done as a low cost effective economic budget airline as it were. germanwings was doing exactly that with airliners like this. it's also worth making the point that this was a short journey. the airliner should have been landed on the ground for sometime now. if an airliner like that is an airliner that is very popular around the european union and there are very likely to be many in the air right now transporting thousands of people. if it is with the airline it will not be just a concern to germanwings, but to all sorts of airlines around the world and to the manufacturer airbus for who as you say, it is a work horse. >> it seems very much as though the relative authorities are playing catch up here. we're seeing that the spanish -- >>> while in country, he paid tribute to our bilateral friendship, relationship, and shared values and the courage and the fierce independence of the afghan people. a pride of independence that we have >> s

it's a low frills airline a low cost low frills, short haul airline, which is a convenience for peopleveling from different european hubs to other european hubs. this one, bourse barcelona to dÜsseldorf. you could imagine -- he. >> let me just jump in there for a second. let's cross over to the spanish prime minister talking about the crash of that germanwings flight. let's listen in to what he has to say. >> i have spoken to the german chancellor angela merkel and asked for her opinion and advice about how to liase further. i have spoken to the legal representation and informed of events. i am sorry that everyone else is for this tragic accident and we shall do whatever we can to help the family and we will also give as much help as we can to other people. thank you very much for your help. >> all right so that was the spanish prime minister. he was just saying there that he'd spoken to the german chancellor angela merkel on how best to lyase about the crash. if you've just joined al jazeera, let me remind you about the events surrounding this crash. it happened in southern france. we

they ply its trade in the european union on short haul flights, low frills flights that kind of thingthis airliner i in question, a320 is used by airlines around the world for precisely this purpose, short haul flights no frills, that sort of thing. for germanwings this would be a terrible tragedy. from lufthansa if the sweet from their website is correct for them obviously this is a very serious negative event also. it's worth making the point that lufthansa has a very good safety record and until today germanwings, too had a injury safe air transport record, so this is a terrible tragedy for germany, for germanwings for lufthansa and we can expect to see some sort of official reaction from both the airliner and the dealer. i would imagine from the german government in the not too distant futurer perhaps more so because we've seen french president francois hollande talk about that as a tragedy having occurred and being so definitive about it. >> obviously as a german carrier, it was flying from barcelona in spain to dÜsseldorf in germany, is it right to assume that there would have b

german wings is a low cost, no frills airline owned and operated by luftansa. we heard from luftansa, both of them saying they're away in the media there has been a crash however, they have not been able to independently confirm it. it looks as though this crash has indeed happened in southern france and the emergency crews are responding to that in the alps. when we get more information we'll be right back here and update you on this breaking story. >>> now to more news this morning, we have the u.s. premier of the 5th season of game of thrones. it just wrapped up in san francisco last night. many of the stars were at san francisco's war memorial oprah house. there you see the video. they were strutting on a black carpet instead of a red carpet and a lot of them sharing their excitement. kron 4's jr stone was there talking about the show. >> it's all about getting the power and when you've got the power, you've gotta keep the power. >> when i read them, i kind of went, you have got to be kidding me. you people need psychiatric help. if you want to take a look

just because it's low cost doesn't mean that it's poor quality. they kind of cut the frills.d. the legroom might be a little bit restricted as well. but it is a very common form of transport. previously perhaps it was just holidaymakers, vacationers that would use the low-cost flights, but now they've become so common that even businessmen will use those flights. they're certainly very convenient. and when i was talking to travelers yesterday boarding later germanwings flights back to germany, they said look lightning is not going to strike twice on the same day. we're quite happy to board this flight. although of course our thoughts are with the passengers who were on that earlier flight and who lost their lives, christine. >> karl penhaul, thank you for that. >>> the weather in the french alps expected to make the work of recovery crews even tougher. i want to bring in meteorologist pedram javaheri for the latest on that. >> yes, you know this part of the world on wednesday, the weather pattern as rough as it gets. some fog, freezing rain snowfall. you look at the terrain,