I’ve been trying to find out about Amsterdam - got someone flying out of Amsterdam Tuesday AM. If you find out anything and post a thread or comment about it, would you mind pinging me? Thanks!
Do you ever look at this site - it’s a pilot’s site, been haunting it; link to there very long Ash thread:
http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/412103-ash-clouds-threaten-air-traffic-144.html
April 15, 1:41 PMSF
Top News Examiner Sheila OConnor
One flight is four hours into its flight out of San Francisco and has to turn back.
San Francisco, Ca. -- As flights around the northern hemisphere are being disrupted or cancelled because of the billows of volcanic ash from Iceland being swept over Europe and the UK, what is happening locally at San Francisco International airport?
Passengers are being stranded. And they don't like it.
So far in the Bay Area, five departing flights to Europe have already been cancelled. These were four flights headed to London and one flight headed to Frankfurt in Germany.
Elspeth Gow, a head teacher at a Scottish school was interviewed at SFO airport earlier this afternoon, as she was trying to catch a flight back to Scotland.
"There's not much we can do," she told KTVU news, as she resigned herself to staying longer in the Bay Area.
She had been told by the airlines that the flights were cancelled due to volcanic ash from the Iceland volcano which has now gone up 5 miles into the atmosphere and is spreading over the UK and Europe.
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