Possible flight disruptions.

[Taltos 7]

Get ready for a repeat from last year

 

http://eyjan.is/2011/05/21/eldgos-hafid-i-grimsvotnum-dokkur-gosmokkur-sest-vida-a-sudurlandi/

 

Yes, there is a new eruption here in Iceland and those contryes around us have been warned.

[Bobshere 7]

Does anyone have an English version?

[Tom Kagai 0]

My link

[TheFiend 1,181]

Here on the BBC website.

[pattaya_mad 208]

been reported by scientists thats its unlikely to be a repeat of last yeat..heres hoping.it last erupted as recently as 2004 when there was no disruption to flights so I am very confident.

Edited May 22, 2011 by pattaya_mad

[glynbuk 29]

Does anyone have an English version?

 

 

If you use "Google Chrome" as your browser, the browser will offer to translate pages for you into English etc,

its not bad although some bits don't translate that well.

 

I was looking at Spanish newspapers yesterday to see who the English footballer was who had the "super injunction"

and was going after "twitter". all the Spanish papers were converted to English quite well.

 

Found out who the player was, seems he plays for Wales and Manchester united and is never clean shaven

 

Must not name him, just in case

 

PS, it also includes a spell checker which is not bad

[Gus 97]

There she blows!!!!!!!!!

 

I think this volcano is smaller than last years, also the airlines won't stand for being grounded this time around. Kick the tyres and light the fires, Bangkok or Bust.

[Bullfrog 2,224]

There she blows!!!!!!!!!

 

I think this volcano is smaller than last years, also the airlines won't stand for being grounded this time around. Kick the tyres and light the fires, Bangkok or Bust.

 

I have to say that last years eruption led to my best night ever in Patts...My eldest son ( 26) was visiting and had just spent 2 weeks in the village when it became obvious that his return flight was at risk....We left home at 2am to get to the airport in time for his 7am checkin....after two hours of being moved from counter to counter joining long queues each time he was told he would have to stay an extra week..So we drove straight down to Patts...pint of cider and pork pie in the Queen Vic then hit the bars and Gogos..including FLB but nobody knows me there.... We got totally ratassed and after the time in the village followed by the uncontrolled mess at the airport we blew our tops!!..We went from bar to bar..dancing and drinking...totally oblivious to anybody around us...we went effing mental..best night ever I spent with him...Thanks Iceland!!

[The_Fat_Controller 25]

Icelandic airspace has closed.

 

Most, if not all, of the Icelandair fleet has fled the country.

 

Some disruption expected in that area for a while but transatlantic and domestic flights are likely to continue as normal for now.

 

Click on the latest maps here

 

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/aviation/vaac/vaacuk_vag.html

 

PS. This is the biggest volcano in Iceland !

Edited May 22, 2011 by The_Fat_Controller

[Taltos 7]

The eruption in 2004 lasted 5 days. They are predicting a similar time now, might be a few days longer as this one is more powerful.

 

P.s Not to nitpick, but Öræfajökull is the largest volcano in Iceland and the second largest in Europe after Etna in Italy. Grímsvötn are however the most active one.

Edited May 22, 2011 by Taltos

[The_Fat_Controller 25]

Taltos, thanks for the information about size and activity

 

More prediction graphics now issued here

 

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/volcano/public/natlantic.html

[newbie34 3]

Taltos, thanks for the information about size and activity

 

More prediction graphics now issued here

 

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/volcano/public/natlantic.html

 

Thanks for posting these links, just what i have been looking for, supposed to fly out this friday morning.

[The_Fat_Controller 25]

Just home from work at Prestwick Centre, which deals with Oceanic, Scottish and northern English airspace.

 

Transatlantic traffic has been forced further south than the ideal routes with the current winds, both East and West bound.

 

There may be more problems tomorrow, but my information is no more up-to-date than the maps that can be seen by clicking on the links in my previous posts.

[Fireman Sam 336]

Just home from work at Prestwick Centre, which deals with Oceanic, Scottish and northern English airspace.

 

Transatlantic traffic has been forced further south than the ideal routes with the current winds, both East and West bound.

 

There may be more problems tomorrow, but my information is no more up-to-date than the maps that can be seen by clicking on the links in my previous posts.

 

 

Thanks for keeping us up to date.

 

Fecking typical, I'm due to leave ABZ on Wednesday morning for MAN then out to DXB with Emirates. Don't fancy driving it, but will do if I get enough warning of ABZ closing.

[pattaya_mad 208]

Keep us posted on updates FC, nice to have someone here with inside knowledge in the air traffic offices.

Im due to fly in 3 weeks, not overly concerned yet but I will be if this continues on for a few weeks.

[Taltos 7]

As I said in my earlyer post, they usually last for a short time. It was on the news here to night that it might change to lava eruption wich means no ash in a weeks time.

[bigdelta 46]

Ryan Giggs.

 

 

If you use "Google Chrome" as your browser, the browser will offer to translate pages for you into English etc,

its not bad although some bits don't translate that well.

 

I was looking at Spanish newspapers yesterday to see who the English footballer was who had the "super injunction"

and was going after "twitter". all the Spanish papers were converted to English quite well.

 

Found out who the player was, seems he plays for Wales and Manchester united and is never clean shaven

 

Must not name him, just in case

 

PS, it also includes a spell checker which is not bad

[atlas2 4,329]

Well I was going to the uk for 8 days............I've put it back to July.

 

........When I'll go back for 5 days.

[bigdelta 46]

Ash cloud to shut German airports, snarls British air travel

By the CNN Wire Staff

May 24, 2011 5:34 p.m. EDT

 

London (CNN) -- A cloud of ash from Iceland's Grimsvotn volcano spread toward central Europe late Tuesday, spurring German authorities to announce two airports will close and prompting British airlines to cancel hundreds of flights.

 

Hamburg International Airport will shut down at 6 a.m. Wednesday (midnight Tuesday ET), while Bremen's airport will close at 5 a.m., Germany's Aviation Safety Agency announced. Berlin's airport could be affected by the falling ash by noon Wednesday, the agency said.

 

A portion of the ash from Saturday's eruption in Iceland had spread over Britain by Tuesday afternoon, with the cloud reaching London's Heathrow airport -- the world's busiest international air travel hub -- around lunchtime, a computer model indicated. The European air traffic control organization Eurocontrol reported about 500 flights in British airspace were canceled Tuesday, roughly double the number expected earlier in the day.

 

The ash cloud was projected to cover all of British airspace by early Wednesday morning and will be densest over Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England, according to Britain's weather agency, the Met Office. But British Airways, which sent a test flight into the region Tuesday evening, said it expects service to return to normal by Wednesday.

 

That may help passengers like Karen Bryan, who was unable to return to the Scottish city of Edinburgh from the Mediterranean island of Malta on Tuesday.

 

"It's bad not knowing what's happening, being on standby and not knowing when and if you'll get back," Bryan said.

 

The number of flights affected was a small proportion of the 29,000 or so that had been expected across the continent, Eurocontrol noted. But Germany's meteorological agency projected that the cloud would spread across the country's north and could reach Berlin around midnight Tuesday, raising the possibility of more cancellations. And there was a "strong possibility" it could also affect Denmark and parts of Scandinavia by the end of the day, Eurocontrol reported.

 

The Grimsvotn eruption came about 13 months after Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano belched smoke and ash into the skies over the continent, forcing the cancellation of thousands of flights per day at the peak of the problem. The ash can be a serious hazard to aircraft, reducing visibility, damaging flight controls and ultimately causing jet engines to fail.

 

Grimsvotn's eruption was more than 10 times larger and put more ash into the air in 36 hours than last year's burst did in a month, University of Iceland geophysicist Magnus Tumi Gudmundsson told CNN -- but the main eruption is now over, he said.

 

"We expect it to behave and slowly decline," Gudmundsson told CNN. "It will, however, last for several more days. The ash does continue to cause huge problems on the ground, but no new ash is coming into the high altitudes."

 

Gillian Foulger, a geophysicist at Britain's Durham University, told CNN that the disruptions from the larger eruption are likely to be smaller than they were in 2010. Most of the ash is blowing northwest, toward sparsely populated Greenland, and the European aviation industry collected valuable safety data during last year's event.

 

"It's much better able to set the safety thresholds accurately, so I think things are probably going to turn out very well for us," Foulger said.

 

Airlines have been making the case that it is safe to fly through ash clouds of medium density, Britain's Civil Aviation Authority said Tuesday. Carriers including British Airways, Virgin and EasyJet are now free to fly through clouds of up to 4,000 micrograms per cubic meter if they feel it is safe to do so, Richard Taylor of the CAA told CNN.

 

The budget airline Ryanair, one of Europe's biggest carriers, announced that it had canceled its remaining flights from Scottish airports Tuesday after arguing against closures. The airline said it had conducted a test flight that found no ash, but Taylor told CNN that Ryanair's claims were "not true" and that the test flight did not go where the airline claimed.

 

British Airways canceled all flights to and from Edinburgh and Glasgow in Scotland and Newcastle in northern England until at least 7 p.m. Tuesday, though service to Aberdeen, Scotland, continued. Dutch airline KLM also canceled dozens of scheduled Tuesday flights to and from locations in Scotland. And British Midlands International canceled its Tuesday evening flights into Glasgow and Edinburgh but resumed service to Aberdeen, the carrier announced.

 

U.S. President Barack Obama left Ireland for England on Monday, a day earlier than planned, to make sure the ash cloud would not affect his flight plan. Barcelona's soccer team also announced on Twitter that it would fly early to London for its Saturday match against Manchester United in the Champions League Final.

 

The ash forced the closure of Icelandic airspace over the weekend, but the island nation's main airports were open Tuesday. Flights to London were canceled, but flights to North America and Scandinavia were still scheduled.

 

Britain's CAA said new arrangements have been put in place since last year's eruption, and those changes should reduce the number of flights that have to be canceled if the ash cloud spreads.

 

Grimsvotn lies beneath Iceland's Vatnajokull glacier, a sheet of ice more than three times the size of the U.S. state of Rhode Island -- larger than any on mainland Europe. It is the country's most active volcano and last erupted in 2004, according to the Icelandic Meteorological Office.

 

In 1783, a 16.7-mile fissure system from the volcano produced the world's largest known historical lava flow over a seven-month period, damaging crops and livestock, according to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. A resulting famine resulted in the loss of one-fifth of Iceland's population, according to the museum.

 

CNN's Ayesha Durgahee, Adam Reiss, Claudia Rebaza, James Partington and Brianna Keilar contributed to this report.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/05/24/iceland.volcano/index.html?eref=rss_mostpopular&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_mostpopular+%28RSS%3A+Most+Popular%29

Edited May 24, 2011 by LTGTR

[newbie34 3]

Just seen on BBC news that the eruption has stoppped and flights from the uk are returning to normal

[Fireman Sam 336]

Siting in Emirates lounge in Manchester just now waiting to board the A380 for Dubai.

 

Fecking typical yesterday I bottled it and hired a car and drove from Aberdeen to Manchester and stayed overnight here to make sure I got my flight today. When checking today I see my ABZ - MAN flight departed on time. Still with my luck if I had waited until today no doubt the flights would have still been cancelled.

 

Cost me a couple of hundred quid extra but worth it to get home on time.

 

Regards

[newbie34 3]

Siting in Emirates lounge in Manchester just now waiting to board the A380 for Dubai.

 

Fecking typical yesterday I bottled it and hired a car and drove from Aberdeen to Manchester and stayed overnight here to make sure I got my flight today. When checking today I see my ABZ - MAN flight departed on time. Still with my luck if I had waited until today no doubt the flights would have still been cancelled.

 

Cost me a couple of hundred quid extra but worth it to get home on time.

 

Regards

 

Have a good trip mate, me and my friend fly out friday morning from manchester, if it came down to it i think i would do what you have done with regards jumping airports, when you got to go, you got to go

[the_inspector 6]

Was not flying to thailand but over to amsterdam for work, unfortunately my flight was cancelled 2 days in a row so i had to take an extended paid leave back in the UK