Volcanic Ashes Halt Flights across Europe (15 April 2010)
Iceland’s volcanic ash halted flights across Europe. An ash cloud from Iceland’s spewing volcano halted air traffic across a wide swath of Europe on Thursday, grounding planes on a scale unseen since the 2001 terror attacks as authorities stopped all flights over Britain, Ireland and the Nordic countries. Thousands of flights were canceled, stranding tens [...]
Iceland Volcano Eruption: Ash grounds flights in UK and Northern Europe
Volcanic ash from Iceland that’s blowing across northern Europe is severely disrupting air traffic across the UK, Ireland and Scandinavia. In the next two hours, all flights in British airspace will be suspended, grounding hundreds of planes, including those at the world’s busiest international airport at Heathrow in London. The ash is dangerous to aircraft [...]
Volcanic ash disrupts more flights across Europe
SAS warns of 2,500 temporary lay-offs due to grounded flights Scandinavian airline SAS warned it would temporarily lay off up to 2,500 employees in Norway starting Monday if flights halted due to a giant cloud of volcanic ash remained on the ground. Read more on AFP via Yahoo! News Volcanic ash disrupts more flights across [...]