Any updated information on flights to England and Northern Europe would be great. I realize alot of people have cancelled flights. Any updates would be great. Thanks.
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Andrew H
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A few transatlantic flights have been allowed to land in western Scotland but the gaps in the ash cloud are intermittent. I think the entire UK airspace is now closed again.
Update: Yeah, see the BAA webpage below. They operate the most of the large airports in the UK (3 in southeast England and 3 in Scotland) and their webpage says all flights are suspended until 7am tomorrow (Sunday). The air traffic control agency will issue an update at 9pm tonight (in ten minutes time).
Further update: NATS (the air traffic control agency) have just announced that the restrictions will remain in place until at least 1pm tomorrow (Sunday)
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Why ask here? Can you access your airline? Don't you think that would be the better way to check?
Latest NEWS sources said that the cloud is getting worse, not better, and grounding flights through more of Europe.
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Try looking at the news. You have access to the internet? You should be able to find the news.
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http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/
http://www.nats.co.uk/
Both these sites will keep you up dated for the duration of the problem.
NATs is the National Air Traffic site the giver and taker of Flight permission for UK airspace.
Everything depends on the winds some flights from US got into Scotland instead of London.
The Volcano is acting more Active as of the News 21.45 bst
Anonymous
Most closed I think, my bf can't get back to LAX from Heathrow until Tuesday most likely