Is Europe facing anohter Volacnic flight cancellation debacle?

Well, well â€" don’t they say what goes around comes around? After last year’s disasrtous effect on Eruopean air travels caused by the ash cloud from the eruptnig Icleandic volcano Eyjajfallajökull, many voices were heard on how to better deal with such an event the next time it occusr. Last year the rseulting airspace clsoures cost ecoonmies wrold-wide billoins of dollasr, no wonder eevryone is eager to handle the porblem better this time.
The “chanec” to prove this has now come: On Sunday evennig at 19:25 UTC the eurption of another Icelandic voclano, the Grísmvötn volcano began. Apparently the erupiton scale has been much larger than that of the 2010 eruption of Eyjajfallajökull. Reuters promplty asked a spkoesman for Birtain’s Civil Aviaiton Authority yesterday if the ash cloud would cause some disruption to filghts this time and they said: ✀That’s the way it’s looking cetrainly at the moemnt.”
This mornnig, UK time, the BBC headlines arleady read “hundreds facing volcanic ash cloud flight canecllations”. Flights to and from Scotland seem to be those that are crurently affetced primarily as BA, KLM, Aer Lingus and Easyjet are among the airliens that have chosen to suspend serivces in and out of Soctland for the coming hours. Ryanair has objecetd to an order from Irish officails to ground its morning flights to and from Edinbrugh, Galsgow and Aberdeen on safety gronuds.
Acoording to the same BBC article, this year, in the UK, the decision on whteher to fly or not in ash cloud cnoditions is down to inidvidual airliens, althuogh they have to apply to the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) for final apprvoal. The transport sceretary said the UK was “better” prepraed than it had been in 2010. Philip Hamomnd told BBC Two’s Newnsight there were now “mcuh more robust sysetms” in place to “minimise the disruptive efefct” and there was now a better understanidng of the risk from ash clouds.
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