[Balata]

Here you have one of Earth's most powerful volcanic areas puffing stuff into the air and you think it's OK to just ignore it.

We don't have to ignore it, because as we are flying we can see it and fly around it.

In the early '70's Iceland had a similar volcano. As a pilot we could see it, fly around it without a problem. This is just more of the political BS.

[muawiyah]

This volcano was also emitting gas clouds ~ some with rather high fluorine concentrations. That's rather characteristic of the whole Mt. Hekla formation.

Tell me how you keep track of an invisible (that is, transparent to transmission of light) gas cloud.

BTW, you must also look at the altitudes ~ earlier explosions tossed material far higher and away from aircraft. This time the explosions were pumping it into prime flying altitudes.

Frankly, none of the airlines were prepared to provide the customers with all the information they needed to decide if they wanted to board the planes. Fur Shur I'm never getting on a German airline again. Those guys are crazy!