Heavy Ash Interrupts North Euro Air Traffic
Posted by JAC on 4/15/2010, 7:11 am
http://oiswww.eumetsat.org/IPPS/html/MSG/RGB/ASH/ICELAND/



Meteosat image of the Iceland ash cloud, 07:00 GMT on 15 April 2010



The ash cloud from the Eyjafjallajökull-Fimmvörduháls eruption in southern Iceland has reached the British Isles and is having a severe impact upon air travel to and from UK and Irish airports.

According to London VAAC the plume is reaching altitudes of 6-11 km and stretches across much of northern Britain.

Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow airports in Scotland are all currently closed, and in England traffic at Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, East Midlands, Leeds Bradford, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle and London's Gatwick, Heathrow and Standsted airports being disrupted.

Flights from Dublin and from Belfast's airports have also been suspended.

The flight disruption is affecting all North Atlantic flights, with the United States FAA reporting 'most Trans-Atlantic flights' affected this morning; and of course Iceland's own air traffic is severely disrupted as well.

Even the current British general election campaign is being affected by the flight disruption (cue lame references to seismic events and political faultlines).

UPDATE: The effects of the ash are spreading across northern Europe. Denmark is closing its airspace from 1600 GMT today, and there is air traffic disruption in Norway, Sweden and Finland.


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