Total close down of UK airspace!

[NorgeFly]

This is becoming an international crisis, people are so angry..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq96Z2uoRas

Oh dear! People like that man shouldn't be allowed to fly anyway   what an embarrassment to the British nation to have him being watched World-wide!  

NATS have just announced that UK airspace will remain closed until 1900 (UK Local) on Friday and will update at 0830 for plans to 0100 on Saturday. Some flights may be allowed between N.Ireland and Glasgow.

So in short, another day of grounded flights in the UK at least.

[zorbon]

This is becoming an international crisis, people are so angry..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq96Z2uoRas

pretty good, though i think it could use some more cuts in it to make it not so repetitive.

I hate iceland *cut* you know *cut i hate iceland *cut* you know

[Lazybee]

Its not all bad news. An A310 Air Transat flight managed to take off from glasgow this morning and make its way to toronto. I don't know how long it'll stay up there though 

[Hwoarang]

Dutch air space will be closed until tomorrow 0700Z, the Belgium air space will be closed until tomorrow 1100Z.
Czech Republic and Bulgaria also closed their air spaces.

[cwestah]

what kind of atc map do you use NorgeFly? Doesn't look like flightradar24?

[EYguy]

A BA flight did the same back in the day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_9

Knut, you're the best! I was going to mention this event too! It's not only dangerous for the engines, but that powder can sandblast your windshield and clog your ventilation lines!

[NorgeFly]

what kind of atc map do you use NorgeFly? Doesn't look like flightradar24?

It's http://www.radarvirtuel.com/

currently looking very empty as you might expect now... one lonely Aer Lingus A330-300 has just left DUB bound for ORD by the look of it and that is it.... weird!

[castelino009]

British airspace will be closed till sunday afternoon, a few domestic flights from scotland and northern ireland may be allowed to fly , but each flight is cleared indiviually. hmm very strange and intresting ..

ATC guys enjoying some sunshine on the gettin tanned on their sun deck LOL, time to get a bit of tan after a harsh winter without going to spain

VJC

[NorgeFly]

British airspace will be closed till sunday afternoon, a few domestic flights from scotland and northern ireland may be allowed to fly , but each flight is cleared indiviually. hmm very strange and intresting ..

ATC guys enjoying some sunshine on the gettin tanned on their sun deck LOL, time to get a bit of tan after a harsh winter without going to spain

VJC

Currently the restrictions are only in place until 0700 tomorrow, not Sunday.

http://www.nats.co.uk/

That of course doesn't mean that it wont be extended as it has been several times now...

Flybe have announced that they will operate flights from Manchester (north bound only), Belfast, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Inverness and Aberdeen from 1300 as long as restrictions are not extended to include Scotland and Northern Ireland again. They're also offering a shuttle service between Belfast and Glasgow from 1900 this evening.

So it looks like things are starting to get moving again which is a good sign

[Diagoras]

I live in Iceland and we're finding the situation... Interesting. Amusing, perhaps. It's not often that something that happens here has a major effect on the world.

Ironically, Keflavik (the main International airport of Iceland), is still open and flights to and from the Americas are still flying as usual.

[NorgeFly]

Haha, you may not find it so amusing if the wind direction changed and closed REK and KEF 

[castelino009]

Haha, you may not find it so amusing if the wind direction changed and closed REK and KEF 

LOL, good one

[ChrisMayhew]

Well as long as this clears up in 3 weeks time I will be okay!

We are going to Florida on the 6th may so I hope it's all clear by then.

[Dave4468]

Well as long as this clears up in 3 weeks time I will be okay!

We are going to Florida on the 6th may so I hope it's all clear by then.

With my geography student hat on I can say that Eyjafjallajökull, the cause of this erupted on a continuous basis at varying strengths between 1821 - 1823. So maybe it's three years time.

But I hope not.

[ChrisMayhew]

With my geography student hat on I can say that Eyjafjallajökull, the cause of this erupted on a continuous basis at varying strengths between 1821 - 1823. So maybe it's three years time.

But I hope not.

Yeah I heard/read that somewhere. I really hope it doesn't keep going for 3 years!!

The worse thing about it is that some insurance companies will not pay out because it's an "act of god".

I guess all we can do is wait and see what happens, A few people our family knows haven't been able to fly out to a few different places.

[ralphvanderlinden]

Holland and the UK wanted cash,
All they got from iceland was ash.

[samomuransky]

OK, what about this deal:

European countries won't claim debts from Iceland, but Iceland have to create some big fan which will send that ash to America instead of Europe?

[ICEcoldair881]

by the time we get it it will mix in with the smog we already have....

no, the actual problem is that Eyjafjallajökull has a sister volcano, which always erupts when the other does, so.......yeah, we're hoping it won't be big!

[ChrisMayhew]

OK, what about this deal:

European countries won't claim debts from Iceland, but Iceland have to create some big fan which will send that ash to America instead of Europe?

However that would be bad for me going to Florida!

Let's hope it's sister doesn't decide it wants to join the party too.

[zorbon]

Well as long as this clears up in 3 weeks time I will be okay!

We are going to Florida on the 6th may so I hope it's all clear by then.

Just about the start of rainy season
We'll see if luck is with you sir.

If you go anywhere inland make sure you bring allergy meds, it's pollen season now :|

Ok back on topic now, Volcano pooping on Europe