Spain has closed 19 airports as a cloud of ash from an Icelandic volcano drifts south over Western Europe.
The government said over 400 flights would be cancelled, leaving almost 40,000 people stuck in airports stretching from La Coruna in the northwest to Barcelona in the northeast.
Air traffic was expected to be affected until 00:00 GMT [...]
Carriers in Europe are counting their losses as air traffic over the continent returns to normal after ashes from an Icelandic volcano eruption caused a week of chaos.
Eurocontrol, Europe’s air safety authority, said they expected air traffic to be “almost 100 per cent” on Thursday, after a week of flight chaos.
But several airports in Sweden, [...]
Airspace throughout northern and central Europe are continuing to gradually reopen following days of disruption after a volcanic eruption in Iceland that spewed out huge ash clouds and endangered air travel.
But as flights resumed, some airports in northern Europe had to close again on Wednesday due to the ash cloud.
“There are still some areas where [...]
European airports have been slowly reopening, easing the travel chaos caused by six days of restrictions due to a cloud of volcanic ash over the continent.
Airports in the British capital, London, were reopened late on Tuesday, after France, Germany and Belgium had earlier allowed a partial resumption of services.
“Airlines are now free to schedule their [...]
Iceland’s volcano has begun spewing lava and heavy ash again, threatening aviation officials’ attempts to reopen the skies over Europe for air travel.
After appearing to calm down in the previous 24 hours, raising hopes that the nightmare for passengers and airlines might finally be coming to an end, activity at the Eyjafjallajokull volcano began to [...]
The International Air Transport Association [IATA] has urged governments to rethink decisions to close large swathes of European airspace because of the Icelandic volcano’s ash cloud.
The airline industry body expressed its dissatisfaction with the way governments managed the crisis saying there was “no risk assessment, no consultation, no co-ordination, and no leadership”.
Giovanni Bisignani, the head [...]
The Icelandic volcano, which has brought travel chaos to Europe, is showing no signs of abating, scientists have said, raising the prospects of further days of flight bans across the continent and more misery for air travellers.
The Eyjafjallajokull volcano began erupting on Wednesday, sending ash several kilometres into the air, and generating a plume of [...]
A huge plume of ash spewing from an Icelandic volcano has continued to keep aircraft grounded, stranding millions of passengers across Europe and around the world.
With scores of normally busy airports turned to ghost towns and thousands of flights cancelled, airlines have said they face losses running into hundreds of millions of dollars a day.
Around [...]
Aviation experts are warning that flights into and out of Europe could continue to be disrupted by clouds of blackened ash from an Icelandic volcano.
On Friday thousands of people were left stranded at airports around the world, with an estimated 17,000 flights cancelled, after plumes of smoke spread across Europe.
Brian Flynn, assistant head of operations [...]
Hundreds of flights from European airports have been cancelled because of a cloud of ash thrown up by the eruption of a volcano in Iceland.
All air traffic in and out of Norway was suspended on Thursday and British air space is due to be closed to all commercial and private aircraft.
A volcano under Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull [...]