... with no planes flying. One flew over en route to Farnborough yesterday afternoon though - guess it must have been an emergency as everything was supposed to be grounded. People living near major airports must be feeling like they've gone deaf!
... with no planes flying. One flew over en route to Farnborough yesterday afternoon though - guess it must have been an emergency as everything was supposed to be grounded. People living near major airports must be feeling like they've gone deaf!
Thanks - we need 'em!
...sending cooling thoughts from the USA to unpronounceable volcanoes in Northern lands!
It's bad sitting in a plane on the tarmac that's going nowhere ... even thousands of us being fed by the Red Cross and sleeping at Munich airport when snow closed London airports to flights coming out wasn't too awful as at least we had a space on the floor, wine in a snowdrift outside and opportunity to stretch legs whenever required. Missing FZ at Brighton in '88 (stuck at Grenoble airport for (I think) the same reason) was a lot worse ...
I was flying to Amsterdam a couple of years ago for a show and most of the planes were grounded because of snow we boarded our plane
and we were sat on it waiting for 3 hours before they told us to get off and wait in departures, by this time it was going to be too late for us to make the show so there was no point in us going, we tried for a refund but they refused saying that the had'nt cancelled. We lost out on our flight money and the money we paid for a room in amsterdam,
but i suppose it was better than risking flying in poor conditions, iwas dissapointed about losing the money and missing the show though. Nature can really bring things to a halt.
Most European airspace has been closed since Thursday and talk now is that some airports will be shut/no flights until Wednesday next week, but that may be extended as the deadline has been several times since Thursday. The ash cloud is over most of Europe and could shut down plane engines and at the least, strip the paint and opaque the cockpit and other windows. Sounds bad to me! Mind you if I were planning to fly anywhere I'd be glad the planes are grounded rather than risk engine failure like the Indian Ocean incident in the mid-80's when all 4 engines died somewhere around Jakarta. Scary! Trouble is, if you cancel rather than the airline cancelling YOU, a refund would not be forthcoming. Still, I'm not going anywhere - just enjoying the quiet.
Don't remember St Helens in 2004 but certainly remember the 1980 eruption.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20100418/tuk-uk-flights-ban-extended-as-chaos-dee-45dbed5.html