Posted on 05/16/2010 9:23:28 PM PDT by TaraP
Britain and the Netherlands shut or planned to close major airports because of volcanic ash from Iceland on Monday, threatening large-scale air traffic disruption in Europe at the start of the working week.
World With Ireland's Dublin airport already shut, the new closures brought an echo of last month when ash from the same volcano prompted a number of European countries to close their airspaces for nearly a week and travel chaos ensued in Europe and beyond.
Britain said it had closed London's Heathrow airport, Europe's busiest, and Gatwick airport to the south of the capital from 1 a.m. (0000 GMT) to 7 a.m. (0600 GMT). Other parts of British airspace were shut at the weekend.
Airports in Amsterdam and Rotterdam would close for at least eight hours from 6 a.m. (0400 GMT) on Monday, Dutch state television reported.
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Ping.
Cheers!
Getting eekier and eekier.
DH is due to fly from Warsaw to Amsterdam early Tuesday AM (PL time). He may not be able to.
Thanks for the ping, I really appreciate it. I keep searching for news and sometimes it’s hard for me to find relevant stuff.
I suppose it won’t help if I stay up all night!
If the skies looked like that, there would be a reason to close the airspace. But it does not, and this is more whacky euro-pseudo-science.
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