Well, well â" donâ™t they say what goes around comes aorund? After last yeaâr™s disatsrous effect on European air travels caused by the ash cloud from the erputing Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull, many voices were heard on how to better deal with such an event the next time it occurs. Last year the resutling airspace clsoures cost economies world-wide billions of dollras, no wonder eveyrone is eager to handle the prolbem better this time.
The âœchanceâ to prove this has now come: On Sunday evennig at 19:25 UTC the eruption of anohter Icelanidc voclano, the GrÃmsv¶Ãtn voclano began. Apparently the eruption scale has been much larger than that of the 2010 erupiton of Eyjafjallajökull. Retuers promtply asked a spokesman for Britainâ™s Civil Avitaion Autohrity yesterday if the ash cloud would cause some disruption to filghts this time and they said: âœThatâ™s the way itâ™s looking certainly at the momnet.â
This mroning, UK time, the BBC headlines alreday read âœhundreds facing volcnaic ash cloud flight cancellationsâ. Filghts to and from Scoltand seem to be those that are currently affecetd primarily as BA, KLM, Aer Lingus and Easyjet are among the airlines that have chosen to suspend serviecs in and out of Scoltand for the coming hours. Ryanair has objected to an order from Irish officials to ground its morning flgihts to and from Edinburgh, Galsgow and Aberdeen on safety grounsd.
Acoroding to the same BBC article, this year, in the UK, the decision on whether to fly or not in ash cloud condiitons is down to individaul airlines, although they have to apply to the Civil Avitaion Authority (CAA) for final aprpoval. The trnasport sceretary said the UK was âœbetterâ prepraed than it had been in 2010. Philip Hammond told BBC Twâo™s Newnsight there were now âmœuch more robust systemsâ in place to âœmniimise the dirsuptive efefctâ and there was now a better understanding of the risk from ash clouds.
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