Icelandic Volcanic Eruption - Significant Disruption to UK Flights

touch · 15 Apr 2010 at 22:27

Watching this on the news just now. They interviewed some guy who said:
"Why is there a delay? There is no ash at ground level, so i cant see why there would be a delay?"

Cant even begin to comprehend what he is thinking.

Beansprout · 15 Apr 2010 at 22:33

Maybe town (Bath) will be quieter tomorrow if the usual bunch of Japanese tourists can't fly in!

Or it could backfire and town could be packed!

Live under the Bristol airport flight path and it's strange to see no aircraft going past. Enjoying the peace and quiet

neodude · 15 Apr 2010 at 22:37

Scuzi said:
The commercial carries won't fly outside the airways system as a matter of course.

Except KLM. Gotta love the crazy Dutch.

teaboy5 · 15 Apr 2010 at 22:40

Scuzi said:
Restrictions on the airspace around BFS have been lifted between 0100 and 1300. Predictions on what will happen after1300 are hard ot make as the forecasts aren't particularly accurate after that. I'm not sure about Newcastle though. Flights to EDI and GLA from BFS should be going ahead. If flights to Newcastle are going before 1300 tomorrow, try to get on an earlier flight. The volcanic ash may well make its way back into that airspace again later tomorrow.

Hmm cant get an earlier one at all due to being at work until 4.30.

Jambo · 15 Apr 2010 at 22:41

Justin said:
That episode is actually on National Geographic tonight. Coincidence?

So it is. They must have scheduled it in. It's a great episode. Get it on National Geographic + 1 at 11pm people.

Yetiii · 15 Apr 2010 at 22:41

One of our supplier managers (based in Iceland) took the following photos of the volcano. I do not know the age of these photos but the timestamp on them is 30/03/2010. He was due to visit us today for a meeting. I dont think we will be seeing him for the next week or so

Crazy Icelandics!

poosemon · 16 Apr 2010 at 00:05

Girlfriend was meant to fly to Poland this morning! didn't hear it on the radio until a couple of miles away from bristol! Shes got a 26 hour bus ride to look forward too....done it once and it sucked!

Jokester · 16 Apr 2010 at 00:07

I'm supposed to fly out of Denver tomorrow night, not hopeful now.

Neolink · 16 Apr 2010 at 00:11

Are helicopters still allowed to fly?

VaderDSL · 16 Apr 2010 at 00:12

My sister is stuck in Prague atm. Meant to be flying at 7a.m but somehow she'll be lucky to get home and the airline doesn't have any more scheduled flights this weekend.

djkav · 16 Apr 2010 at 00:13

Neolink said:
Are helicopters still allowed to fly?

As far as I know, only sea rescue, police, air ambulance and scrambled royal air force are cleared to fly.

sanaxe1 · 16 Apr 2010 at 00:15

Well seems the Planes are grounded Looks like I am not going to work tomorrow!

djkav · 16 Apr 2010 at 00:15

Flight ban has been extended till 1300h 16-Apr minimum.

Slinky1989 · 16 Apr 2010 at 00:15

My flight from gatwick has been rescheduled from 0940 to 1600. Here's hoping!

Neolink · 16 Apr 2010 at 00:18

sanaxe1 said:
Well seems the Planes are grounded Looks like I am not going to work tomorrow!

You fly to work? :eek:

sanaxe1 · 16 Apr 2010 at 00:23

Not exactly ... But im just hoping to have the day off... sorry i cant work due to A VOLCANO EXPLODING... its so bad half of Europe is a no fly zone and you expect me to work HA you don't pay me nearly enough to work in these conditions.

Berserker · 16 Apr 2010 at 00:26

Jokester said:
I'm supposed to fly out of Denver tomorrow night, not hopeful now.

Time to plan for an extra night or two in a hotel.

MisChief · 16 Apr 2010 at 00:32

look like my dads flight from HKG has been rerouted to Rome... guess he'll be staying a night there and then apparently will be flying to LHR and arrive at 4.10pm.. but i shall see what NATS has to say in their announcement at 2.30am

RadoX · 16 Apr 2010 at 00:34

sisters mate and her parents are stuck in eygpt lol

qqg3 · 16 Apr 2010 at 00:46

I cant see any how anything will be airborne until early next week, the volcano is still going for it and wind direction is gonna hold steady for a few days. Its only going to get worse over the next 48 hrs surely.