Black Cloud

[Nunya]

What's with that hella black cloud hanging over northern Europe?

I heard that many many flights were cancelled yesterday and will be cancelled today because of this cloud?

Oonuu hear anyting?

[Magician]

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COUNTRIES AFFECTED
Airspace closed:

-Denmark
-Belgium
-Netherlands
-Finland
-Lithuania
-Latvia
-Estonia

Partial closures:
-UK
-Republic of Ireland (most airspace opened Friday)
-Sweden (northern airspace opened Friday)
-Norway (limited flights in north)
-France (northern airspace)
-Germany (most airports closed)
-Poland (most airports closed)
-Austria (closures from Friday pm)
-Czech Republic (full closure expected later Friday)

[halfwaytree]

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Numerous earthquakes and now a volcano.

The earth is pi$$ed off!

[Nunya]

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Travel Chaos.

That's the only way to describe the situation in northern Europe right now.

And that's all thanks to a volcano in Iceland.
About <span style="font-weight: bold">4000</span> flights within Europe were cancelled today and that could rise to <span style="font-weight: bold">6000</span> on Friday. Even Canadians planning to travel to many European destinations are out of luck. Air Canada and Air Transat were forced to cancel at least 30 flights because of the ash plume. Airlines are warning travellers to check their websites for any flight status updates.

At least two dozen airports were shut down this morning. Europe's busiest airport, Heathrow in London, suspended all incoming and outgoing flights, affecting about 180,000 people. Airports in France, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Germany have also been affected. A spokeswoman for air traffic service Eurocontrol, says half of all trans-Atlantic flights will be cancelled Friday.
from here

[Magician]

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Departed out of Northern Italy without any problem last night, but there was very little traffic since a lot of flights canceled.

[Nunya]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Curmudgeon_Milo</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Numerous earthquakes and now a volcano.

The earth is pi$$ed off! </div></div>

No doubt!

[Nunya]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Magix</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Departed out of Northern Italy without any problem last night, but there was very little traffic since a lot of flights canceled. </div></div>

Saw a pic of the clouds on telly. Dang! It looked like a living thing. An ANGRY living thing...

[Magician]

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..and it makes jet engines go eeeeeeeeeh uuuuuuuuuuhhhh mmmmmmmmmmmm brap!

[Nunya]

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Ok that's not funny!!!!

[Magician]

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That's why de flight dem cyancel up. British Airway try to go thru one 20 years ago and it was bad for business.

[Nunya]

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Yeah? How many didn't make it?

btw, how much money do you figure the airlines are losing, being grounded like this?

[Magician]

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How much money they losing depends on if they were making or losing money from before. But each cancellation costs hundreds of thousands of dollars due to lost revenue, and putting up passengers in the hotels, paying the crew, and paying leases on the aircraft that are sitting idle.

[Magician]

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The famous British jumbo that flew into volcanic ash over Indonesia lost all 4 engines, but was able to restart two engines before hitting the ground.

There were other cases where they weren't so lucky.

[JamBrit]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Curmudgeon_Milo</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Numerous earthquakes and now a volcano.

The earth is pi$$ed off! </div></div>

For real....kinda scary not knowing where the next disaster will take place....

[sistactry]

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not only dat, but the question is, how long dem a go sit idle,