Sunday, May 9, 2010
Some Spanish airports opened and Italy closes the north
4pm AENA update: The evolution of the volcanic ash cloud forces to close the airports of Asturias, Santander, Bilbao, Salamanca, Valladolid, Leon and Burgos starting at 4:00pm today. The airports of Santiago, A Coruña and Vigo reopen at 5:00pm. The rest of the AENA airports operates normally.
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Barcelona's airport closes at 3.30pm today
Check your flight cancellations: 902 404 704 or www.aena.es
Spain closes 15 airports due to volcanic ash
"The movement of the volcanic ash cloud coming from Iceland has forced us to close starting at noon the airports in Bilbao, San Sebastian, Vitoria, Saragossa, Pamplona and La Rioja," Aena said in a statement.
Nine other airports in northern Spain which were already shut down due to the volcanic ash.
The airports will remain closed until at least 6 pm (1600 GMT) Saturday, Aena said.
The cloud is moving towards Catalonia now and if nothing changes, Barcelona, Girona, Reus and Sabadell airport will close by 2pm today.
More info of the flights: www.aena.es
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Ireland to reopen airports, fears ash cloud return
The IAA had closed airports from 0600 GMT until 1200 GMT due to risk of ash ingestion in aircraft engines, although overflights of Ireland from Britain and continental Europe had not been banned.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
"Desafio Extremo" Spanish TV Team chroniques from Iceland
Info about the Volcanoes
60% of European flights expected to operate today
A small number of flights have taken off in northern Europe after five days of inactivity caused by the spread of volcanic ash from Iceland.
The Eurocontrol air traffic agency says it expects up to 60% of flights over Europe to go ahead on Tuesday.
Planes have been departing from Paris, Amsterdam and Frankfurt among others - though many flights are still grounded.
A new ash cloud spreading from Iceland has meant that most of UK airspace, including London, remains closed. Other closed airspaces are Norway, Denmark, west of Ireland and south of Sweden.
The UK's air traffic control authority, Nats, says it is unlikely that the main airports in London will reopen on Tuesday.
Swiss and northern Italian airspace has reopened. The Swiss authorities said test flights had shown a considerable reduction in the amount of ash in the atmosphere and posed no threat to passenger safety.
Flights have resumed out of Paris' Charles de Gaulle and Orly airport, which are operating at about 30% capacity.
The skies over Germany are to remain closed until 1800 GMT, with some exceptions.
The German carrier, Lufthansa, says it is planning about 200 flights on Tuesday, taking advantage of special permission to fly visually rather than relying on instruments and keeping in constant touch with air traffic controllers.
In Spain, where all airports were open this morning, the government has offered to let Britain and other European countries use its airports as stopovers to get passengers moving again.
Sources: BBC, Met Office and Eurocontrol