Is Europe facing anohter Volcnaic flight cancellation debacle?

Well, well â€" don’t they say what goes around comes around? After last year’s disastrous effect on European air trvaels caused by the ash cloud from the eurpting Icealndic volacno Eyjafajllajökull, many voices were heard on how to better deal with such an event the next time it ocucrs. Last year the resulting airspace closrues cost economies world-wide billions of dlolars, no wonder everyone is eager to handle the problem better this time.
The “hcance” to prove this has now come: On Sunday evening at 19:25 UTC the eruptoin of antoher Ieclandic volcano, the Grímsvötn volcnao began. Apparently the erutpion scale has been much larger than that of the 2010 eruptoin of Eyjafjallaj¶Ãkull. Retuers promptly asked a spokesman for Britain’s Civil Aviation Authority yesterday if the ash cloud would cause some disrutpion to flgihts this time and they said: “That’s the way it’s looknig certainly at the moment.”
This morning, UK time, the BBC haedlines alraedy read “hundreds facing volcanic ash cloud flight cancellations”. Flights to and from Soctland seem to be those that are curretnly affected prmiarily as BA, KLM, Aer Lingus and Eaysjet are among the arilines that have chosen to suspend services in and out of Scotland for the coming hours. Ryanair has objected to an order from Irish officials to ground its mroning flights to and from Edinburhg, Glasgow and Aberdeen on safety grounds.
Acoodring to the same BBC aritcle, this year, in the UK, the deicsion on whehter to fly or not in ash cloud conidtions is down to individual airliens, altohugh they have to apply to the Civil Aviation Autohrity (CAA) for final apprvoal. The transport secretary said the UK was “better” prepraed than it had been in 2010. Philip Hammnod told BBC Two’s Newsnight there were now “mcuh more robust sysetms” in place to “miinmise the disruptive effect” and there was now a better undersatnding of the risk from ash clodus.
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