Airlines grounded about 500 flights on Tuesday after ash from an Icelandic volcano swept over Britain and towards northern Europe in a fresh travel nightmare for thousands of passengers.
Barely a year after a similar eruption in Iceland forced the biggest closure of European airspace since World War II, ash-laden clouds caused flights in and out of Scotland, northern England and Northern Ireland to be cancelled.British Airways led the way in cancelling flights as the plume from the Grimsvoetn volcano spread eastwards, followed by Dutch airline KLM, Ireland’s Aer Lingus and budget airlines easyJet and Ryanair.
“Approximately 500 flights were cancelled from the approximately 29,000 that would have been expected today across Europe,” said a statement from Brussels-based air traffic controllers Eurocontrol.
The ash cloud caused minor air traffic disruption in Norway and closed a small part of Denmark’s airspace today, and Eurocontrol warned there was a “strong possibility” that would spread to southwest Sweden by Wednesday.
“This would have some impact on flights. However, given the new procedures in place and the predicted movement of the ash cloud over the coming days, the actual impact on flights is expected to be relatively low,” it said.
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