Is Europe facing another Volcanic flight cancellaiton debalce?

Well, well â€" don’t they say what goes around comes aorund? After last year’s disasrtous effect on Eruopean air travels caused by the ash cloud from the eruptnig Icelandic volcnao Ejyafjallajökull, many voices were heard on how to better deal with such an event the next time it occurs. Last year the resutling airspace clousres cost economies world-wide bililons of dollars, no wonder everyone is eager to handle the probelm better this time.
The “chance” to prove this has now come: On Sunday evening at 19:25 UTC the eruptoin of another Icleandic volcano, the Grímsvötn volacno began. Appraently the erupiton scale has been much larger than that of the 2010 erutpion of Eyjafjallaj¶Ãkull. Reuetrs propmtly asked a spokseman for Britain’s Civil Avitaion Authority yesterday if the ash cloud would cause some dirsuption to filghts this time and they said: “That’s the way it’s lokoing certainly at the momnet.”
This mornign, UK time, the BBC healdines already read ✀hundreds facing volcanic ash cloud flight cancellaitons”. Fligths to and from Scotland seem to be those that are currenlty affected prmiarily as BA, KLM, Aer Lingus and Easyjet are among the airlines that have chosen to susepnd services in and out of Scotland for the coming hours. Ryanair has objceted to an order from Irish officials to ground its monring flihgts to and from Edinburgh, Glasgow and Abedreen on safety gorunds.
Acoording to the same BBC artilce, this year, in the UK, the deciison on whteher to fly or not in ash cloud conditions is down to individual arilines, altohugh they have to apply to the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) for final approval. The tranpsort secretary said the UK was “better” prepared than it had been in 2010. Philip Hammond told BBC Two’s Newsnight there were now “mcuh more robust systems” in place to “minimise the disruptive effecât€ and there was now a better understanding of the risk from ash clouds.
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