Monday, April 19, 2010

APRIL 19, 2010: La UE estima que sólo despegarán el 30% de los vuelos previstos
















In Madrid, the European agency of management of air traffic and Eurocontrol has released updates regarding the impacts of the cloud of ash in the sky. This cloud of volcanic ash was caused by volcano Eyjafjalla in Iceland, which has continuously been erupting since Thursday. Only 30% of the 28,000 predicted flights will be going up in the air throughout the continental region.

Flight delays and cancellations have not only been seen in Spain, but throughout most of the European air space. Other affected regions include Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Netherlands, north of Italy, Poland, Rumania, Slovenia, Swiss, parts of Ukraine and United Kingdom.

Currently, it has been reported that 50% of the continental air space has not yet been affected by the cloud of ash. The south of Europe -including Portugal, Spain, parts of Italy and France, the area of the Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey- as well as north parts of Europe are currently open to the civil traffic. On the other hand, the meteorology reports in Iceland have reported , that this volcano is responsible for throwing tons of ash to the atmosphere and causing the air chaos in Europe. Besides the airports, and airlines, thousands of millions of dollars have been lost due to the disturbance of air traffic. As of this morning, three companies -Lufthansa, British Airways and KLM- have carried out test flights through the affected area and have seen satisfactory results. Their results have proven that the coinciding ashes are not yet causing the considerable damaged to the motors of their aircrafts.

The Spanish airports total 1,517 flights that were cancelled during the and an additional 5,249 operations planned for today that were cancelled, as a result of the cloud of ashes produced by the Volcanic eruption in Iceland. In conclusion, the Cabinet of Transportation of the EU that will be holding a videoconference to evaluate the result of the volcanic cloud.

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