Icelandic Volcanic Eruption - Significant Disruption to UK Flights

Slinky1989 · 16 Apr 2010 at 08:51

Well I guess I'm not flying today then. Had a VERY yellow sunrise over gatwick this morning. Very strange.

Cosimo · 16 Apr 2010 at 08:57

moawan said:
Regarding the large dust cloudd over London I heared the police are looking to question the person who cleeaned the Arsenal Trophy Cabinet

I hear they said he looked in the Spurs cabinet first and found it empty.

They might find him because he’s not flying today.

footman · 16 Apr 2010 at 09:17

simulatorman said:
I hear they said he looked in the Spurs cabinet first and found it empty.

I heard that the Spurs cabinet wasn't quite empty. They found a few empty brown envelopes thought to have belonged to a previous manager.

mast3r · 16 Apr 2010 at 09:22

wonder why the planes can not just use Tom Tom Re-Route.?

ShakenNstirred · 16 Apr 2010 at 09:38

looks like another night off work for me then tonight
i have to ring work at 4pm to check, but having seen the new report, it looks like its a no go

TermKilla · 16 Apr 2010 at 09:50

Just re-scheduled my holiday for 2 weeks time! Hope everything has been sorted by then!

Should be in sunny Egypt now ...

Vauxmad · 16 Apr 2010 at 09:55

Its not looking good for my holiday

Was due to be flying on sunday to Vegas. This is the only 2 weeks the other half can get off from work so we are pretty stuffed

VFR_KID · 16 Apr 2010 at 09:56

Girls dad is supposed to be flying away to Maliga at tea time from Glasgow. been reading some flights are getting to go from Glasgow is this true does anyone know?

Wossi · 16 Apr 2010 at 09:57

It looks like the shipment from Germany we are expecting at work will be slightly delayed as it will have to be put on a lorry instead of a plane. Bloody Germans, if they had shipped it earlier like we asked there'd be no problem.

I assume that TNT will be using road freight instead for the time being?

VFR_KID · 16 Apr 2010 at 09:59

Does anyone know if royal mail use air mail in the UK?

Ordered a HDD from OCUK yesterday just hope its coming in a van/ Truck.

antijoke · 16 Apr 2010 at 10:02

From memory (Top Gear race) then yes Royal Mail do use air mail in the UK. But in tese circumstances I imagine it will be done by truck.

VFR_KID · 16 Apr 2010 at 10:07

anticonscience said:
From memory (Top Gear race) then yes Royal Mail do use air mail in the UK. But in tese circumstances I imagine it will be done by truck.

Hope so. well actually I'm really not bothered LOL its for a friends laptop not mines so they can take as long as they like

clv101 · 16 Apr 2010 at 10:15

DavieCramb01 said:
Girls dad is supposed to be flying away to Maliga at tea time from Glasgow. been reading some flights are getting to go from Glasgow is this true does anyone know?

Some are going, but looking at the Met Office map, it might just be transatlantic or to Ireland.

GJ02 · 16 Apr 2010 at 10:24

Do u think things will be back to normal by Wednesday
wifes off to Dubai and I'm looking fwd to a week on bc2!! With no interuptions

UncleBensSauce · 16 Apr 2010 at 10:28

Has anyone got any more info on if Katla is going to errupt? E.G. Are they going to go and have a lokk at it or something?

The Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull, also known as Eyjafjoll, which erupted yesterday, has blown three times before – and each time triggered even more powerful effects from nearby Mount Katla.

Katla, described as ‘enormously powerful’, has not erupted on a large scale since 1918 – and volcanologists say a blast is overdue.
Because Katla lies under the vast Myrdalsjokull ice cap, its eruption could cause a vast glacial flood.
‘Eyjafjallajokull hardly makes a move without Mount Katla wanting to get in on the action,’ warned geophysicist Prof Páll Einarsson. An eruption at Mount Katla could melt huge amounts of ice and cause massive floods, affecting a town of 300 people nearby, Prof Einarsson added.
Eyjafjoll’s three recorded eruptions triggered violent activity at Mount Katla – in 920, 1612 – and a disturbance stretching from 1821 to 1823.
‘So far, there have been no signs of the reawakening of the Katla volcano, but a lot of things can still happen,’ Prof Einarsson concluded.
Experts were also warning that major volcanic eruptions can affect weather patterns. The eruption of an Icelandic volcano in 1783 caused a thick fog of gas across much of Europe and North America for eight months.

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/821991-iceland-volcano-that-was-just-a-little-one-warn-volcanologists

Edit: In case of somekind of doomsday scenario I have just setup a tinfoil hat factory in my lounge.

antijoke · 16 Apr 2010 at 10:30

Yes, it's going to erupt at 18:43 on the 27th April. Don't make any plans.

Cosimo · 16 Apr 2010 at 10:33

All we need now is for Vesuvio and Etna to erupt.

philstanbridge · 16 Apr 2010 at 10:36

What is it with all these natural disasters at the moment.. There has been a steady rise in eruptions and floods and things. Must be the earth warming up?

ShakenNstirred · 16 Apr 2010 at 10:36

Wossi said:
It looks like the shipment from Germany we are expecting at work will be slightly delayed as it will have to be put on a lorry instead of a plane. Bloody Germans, if they had shipped it earlier like we asked there'd be no problem.

I assume that TNT will be using road freight instead for the time being?

yes they should be, we are (DHL)we have 70 extra trucks going to n from Europe

DavieCramb01 said:
Does anyone know if royal mail use air mail in the UK?

Ordered a HDD from OCUK yesterday just hope its coming in a van/ Truck.

yes they do, but i bet it will have been rerouted via truck

Cold Fusion · 16 Apr 2010 at 10:36

You should all go out and watch 2012