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Massive cloud of ash closes all UK airports.

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  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,494
    edited April 2010
    [cite]Posted By: stonemuse[/cite]Got out of Heathrow for Vietnam on Wednesday, looks like I made it just in time.
    You owe Charley some payback? :)
  • RedArmySE7
    RedArmySE7 Posts: 5,407
    Some experts claiming 5 days of closures to be totally safe. Don't think I'd be in any hurry to fly if they said any earlier in all honesty. Wouldn't want to be the man that said it was safe to go then to be proved wrong...
  • falconwood_1
    falconwood_1 Posts: 7,369
    My flight today from Pisa is cancelled so missing Norwich :0((

    Easyjet cant get us home until Tuesday......

    I'll leave an address for where food parcels are to be sent :0)))

    I'd appreciate genuine info, as the UK media sites are crap.
  • Valley_floyd_red
    Valley_floyd_red Posts: 3,194
    I've got a mate stuck in New York and another in Paris. Both of them are moaning about not being able to get back to London.
  • falconwood_1
    falconwood_1 Posts: 7,369
    Decided to stay until Tuesday.

    Swimming Pool /

    Bar /

    SKY TV /

    Fit birds to ogle /

    Why kill yourself trying to get home?
  • Valley11
    Valley11 Posts: 12,030
    My 7am flight from Bristol on Sat is looking doubtful. Villa booked in south of France too. Fingers crossed.
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 58,150
    Serves you all right for having nice holidays abroad.

    I never had these issues with my Scarborough caravan holiday.......
  • falconwood_1
    falconwood_1 Posts: 7,369
    The bar has both UK & Italian Sky.

    So its wall to wall football this weekend!

    "Club Tropicana, drinks are freeeee"

    Beats being in SE9...
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 38,190
    When we are 4-0 up on saturday you'll be thinking ''i wish i was there''.....
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,226
    Had to be paid Leroy ;-)

    Sorted now and on way to Beijing in a couple of hours.

    Will be listening to Norwich game online - as I am missing it we are bound to win.

    C'mon Huddersfield tonight - screw up Saints and Spanners :-)

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  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,226
    Had to be paid Leroy ;-)

    Sorted now and on way to Beijing in a couple of hours.

    Will be listening to Norwich game online - as I am missing it we are bound to win.

    C'mon Huddersfield tonight - screw up Saints and Spanners :-)
  • BigRedEvil
    BigRedEvil Posts: 11,128
    I'm amazed how many people on this forum have flights booked!
  • RedArmySE7
    RedArmySE7 Posts: 5,407
    My girlfriends Mum and Sister are stuck in Egypt, not sure when they're gonna get back. Sounds like havoc. But like I said before it sounds like for once safety has really come first which I think is commendable.
  • Valley11
    Valley11 Posts: 12,030
    BigRedEvil:
    "I'm amazed how many people on this forum have flights booked!"



    ...why?
  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 15,963
    I'm due to fly to Spain next Friday morning for the weekend, hopefully will be fine by then
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,494
    [cite]Posted By: stonemuse[/cite]Had to be paid Leroy ;-)

    Sorted now and on way to Beijing in a couple of hours.

    Will be listening to Norwich game online - as I am missing it we are bound to win.

    C'mon Huddersfield tonight - screw up Saints and Spanners :-)
    :o)

    I've hired a car and am currently sat in a cafe in La Jonquera (right on the French border). Mmmm... Waffles!

    Company is paying for it because I need to be back tonight to do some server work - and it's a good job too, cos the toll roads are bloody expensive! Only another 500 miles to go...
  • creepyaddick
    creepyaddick Posts: 6,152
    Over 600,000 people were due to fly out of britain yesterday

    As AFKA said, No problem for me getting to Cornwall early June!
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,276
    Due to fly to Spain next thursday so hoping it'll be sorted by then.
  • Valley11
    Valley11 Posts: 12,030
    edited April 2010
    Is the smugness really necessary Creepy?
    I, like thousands of others, are set to lose hundreds of pounds because of this - oh, and miss out on the one and only holiday we could afford this year.
  • Chirpy Red
    Chirpy Red Posts: 7,587
    There is another larger volcano next to the one that is active. It is well overdue to erupt. Last time it did, in the 19thC, it went on for 23 years! Of course aviation was not a problem then.
    None of us may ever fly again.
    Anyone else getting slightly worried about all the natural disasters so far in 2010? Lots of earthquakes, floods etc and now this. Is it just me? Seems far more than normal. Or is it the fault of 24 Hour News Channels?

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  • razil
    razil Posts: 15,041
    edited April 2010
    I hear the ABI don't recognise the act of god exemption

    ABI on act of god exemption

    wow sometimes it is actually 'useful' that I work in reinsurance..

    essentially check your individual policy clauses to see what is actually covered and what is not.
  • CHG
    CHG Posts: 4,534
    Stuck in Berlin, getting a toppy train to Brussels and hoping for the best, will bloody miss the Norwich game.
  • creepyaddick
    creepyaddick Posts: 6,152
    [cite]Posted By: Valley11[/cite]Is the smugness really necessary Creepy?
    I, like thousands of others, are set to lose hundreds of pounds because of this - oh, and miss out on the one and only holiday we could afford this year.

    Not being smug at all mate, as for money lost, I am a cabbie at Gatwick and I've got no passengers to take home at all.
    Work has been declining for two years now, hence the hols in this country.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,272
    [cite]Posted By: CHG[/cite]Stuck in Berlin, getting a toppy train to Brussels and hoping for the best, will bloody miss the Norwich game.

    Brussels to St Pancras Intnl only takes 2 hrs, if you can get one.
  • PeteF
    PeteF Posts: 1,698
    Got a mate stuck in Rio, looks like he will miss the Nowich game, the plus side is he has sun, sea and beautiful ladies, on the downside his mother is with him.....
  • SidewaysInOz
    SidewaysInOz Posts: 1,340
    I was meant to be flying to Venice today with the Mrs for our 1st year wedding anniversary. Our BA flight at 16:10 is now cancelled so we're not going. Fortunately BA have re-booked us in again for the 11 June and the hotel we had booked into ahve amended the booking as well for nothing. So we've not lost out and I now get to go to the Naaarwich game. Happy days!!!! (Looks round to check wife can't see the screen).
  • SidewaysInOz
    SidewaysInOz Posts: 1,340
    edited April 2010
    Just had an email from BA saying:

    "All British Airways flights departing to and from the UK are cancelled until at least 1am UK local time on Saturday morning."

    Oh dear.
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,117
    [cite]Posted By: Sideways[/cite]Just had an email from BA saying:

    "All British Airways flights departing to and from the UK are cancelled until at least 1am UK local time on Saturday morning."

    Oh dear.
    Girl at work was meant to be leaving to Rome at 7am tomorrow morning and her flight has been cancelled already. You can check status of flights on the site.
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,276
    Does anyone know how it works once they do start running again. Do they just continue with the normal schedule and fit delayed passengers in where they can, or do delayed passengers get priority?
    For example if they start running on monday, do passengers with flights booked for monday fly as normal, or do monday flights get filled with delayed people from saturday/sunday?
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 38,190
    I flew with BA during the strikes and they told me that if a flight is cancelled then they offer a full refund or will try and fit you onto another flight. Many airlines have arrangements with other carriers, and use these to assist delayed passengers. Although, the whole delays were down to BA, not quite sure how it works with weather difficulties.

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