Volcanic Ash cloud heading to the UK

[jen]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34mHZgP9 ... tube_gdata

[r055]

Well the train from london was busy... Loads of people getting taxi to GLA airport to pick up their cars.

[Peter76]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34mHZgP9 ... tube_gdata

Makes me proud to be Scottish. Not. Quite amusing none-the-less!

My flight to Gothenburg is cancelled tomorrow. Was quite surprised that Ryanair appears to be refunding my money. Result. Gonna head down to Manchester/Newcastle instead.

[neil]

Radio scotland explained that this happened back in the 80s , a 747 when threw a cloud of volcanic ash and all four engines stopped.

I saw the documentary on discovery ages ago about it, t'was a good watch!

That'll have been this one

[BiggestNizzy]

The plane was the city of eninbugh and you can get a little piece of it here

http://www.1010uk.org/1010/mytag

[DavieK]

Working off Norway at the minute and the latest gossip is that there will be no flying untill Monday ....... although offshore is bad for such stuff.

[jen]

Im watching Sky News ATM and they are saying NI and Scotland Airports will be open for local flights from 0000 and 1200 tomorrow.......

[neil]

Im watching Sky News ATM and they are saying NI and Scotland Airports will be open for local flights from 0000 and 1200 tomorrow.......

Flights are cancelled at all BAA airports until at least 13:00 on Friday 16 April. This is due to volcanic ash spreading across the UK from Iceland which has caused the closure of British airspace by the UK air traffic control service (NATS).

[robin]

In fact the air space is not closed - if you have a private airplane you're allowed to fly it. I wouldn't be surprised if they decided to fly at lower altitude for some shorter local flights if this continues for any length of time - the airlines cannot have their fleets grounded for weeks.

Cheers,
Robin

[VXJON]

Ffs

My flight is no longer listed as cancelled

[jen]

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-New ... g_Airports

[Rich H]

We had a couple of things up but mostly grounded.

[meatball]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34mHZgP9 ... tube_gdata

vx jon?

[meatball]

Radio scotland explained that this happened back in the 80s , a 747 when threw a cloud of volcanic ash and all four engines stopped.

I saw the documentary on discovery ages ago about it, t'was a good watch!

That'll have been this one

[Stewart]

Well I was due to fly from EDI to LHR tomorrow morning at 6:30am then onwards to Los Angeles at midday for the Indycar of Longbeach. All I know is that the morning flight is definitely cancelled. Probably try and drive down to LHR tomorrow morning as that may be the place to be if when things eventually start moving again. Did think about the train but it is £140 each Flights are BMI & Virgin.

Ho hum