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Icelandic volcanic ash halts European air traffic.

The ash cloud is arriving on Italy, tomorrow Bolzano and Milan airports will be closed, maybe tomorrow Enac will order to close all airports in north of Italy.
 
Former Monty Python star John Cleese told the Daily Mail, a U.K. newspaper, that he was taking a 943-mile taxi journey from Oslo to Brussels at a cost of $4,600, en route to London. He was due to arrive Saturday afternoon.
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Wow, that is one hell of a Taxi bill ! The Eurostar station in Brussels isn't far away from me...they have probably already some camera teams there to look out for a cab with Oslo sign...haha!
 
Bjoern said:
Might just be useful to aviod anything higher than FL300. Apparently that's where the ash cloud is located.
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yesterday over Wittering i think it was ash was detected as low as 6000ft... and i was looking forward to some freefall today too, darn you murphy and your laws!
 
aeromed202 said:
Anyone know about flights to Milan for the next 24-48 hours?
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Depends on your departure point. Here in the Netherlands the main airport Schiphol remains closed. In most European countries the decision whether or not open their airports again has been postponed to Sunday already.

I live quite close to Schiphol and the background noise of airliners is always present. Now it is no longer there I suddenly realise how much noise these tubeliners actually make.

But I think this whole vulcano story is just made up by the railways and ferry companies........ ;)

Cheers,
Huub
 
huub vink said:
Depends on your departure point. Here in the Netherlands the main airport Schiphol remains closed. In most European countries the decision whether or not open their airports again has been postponed to Sunday already.

I live quite close to Schiphol and the background noise of airliners is always present. Now it is no longer there I suddenly realise how much noise these tubeliners actually make.

But I think this whole vulcano story is just made up by the railways and ferry companies........ ;)

Cheers,
Huub
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It is really very weird to look up into the sky and see no vapour trails and hear no aircraft.

This part of the UK is criss- crossed with transantlantic routings and is under the final approach for Manchester and Leeds Bradford Airports. We also get our fair share of light aircraft/ choppers etc.

The last three days--------zilch.


Regards...........Stu
 
The only aircraft on FlightRadar24 flying into the UK today was a Bristow's helicopter from an oil rig to Aberdeen.
 
I suppose that we could get used to the quietness around airports, the clean, clear vapor trail-less skies, the sunsets, the millions of pounds of fuel not burned (saved) each day, and the wonderment of how this change affects our lives, our thought patterns, and environment.
 
Milton Shupe said:
I suppose that we could get used to the quietness around airports, the clean, clear vapor trail-less skies, the sunsets, the millions of pounds of fuel not burned (saved) each day, and the wonderment of how this change affects our lives, our thought patterns, and environment.
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Nuts to that! You speak for yourself. :icon_lol:
 
i'm not too fussed by the lack of aircraft, i'm fussed because i was looking forward to some good freefall... :wiggle:
 
I don't care about the aircraft either, I just want my Kenyan Strawberries back :frown:
 
Aircraft to me serve 1 purpose... to get me to a safe Jump height :icon_lol: oh and to take me to them erm..."Fun" places.... these sims need more skydivers :jump:
 
Clarke123 said:
OK thats three of you now saying you don't care about aircraft :isadizzy:
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Or cars ;)

I'm really not a plane spotter!

To be honest, being under the flightpath to Heathrow, I am really surprised by how much I haven't even noticed that they are missing.
 
6297J said:
Or cars ;)

To be honest, being under the flightpath to Heathrow, I am really surprised by how much I haven't even noticed that they are missing.
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There are two things I believe to be sacred, aircraft and Top Gear! I've seen neither this week. Dark times.
 
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