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Massive cloud of ash closes all UK airports.
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sounds like a recipe for disaster on grand scale (getting loads through at once) oh well I guess these folk know what they are doing0
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What's the difference between the icelandic volcano and Cheryl Cole?
the icelandic volcano's still blowing ash.
I'll get me coat......
but as some have proved on here there are ways round it, though at considerable expense (which is fine if someone else is paying :P). I know someone who was in China at the weekend for the F1, has flown to Tunisia, then is getting a boat up to Marseille and then driving up from there. Costing him about the same as 5 more nights in Shanghai, which it looks like he will have had to have anyway, and as there are 3 of them, he reckons the drive won't be too bad. Talk about the jet set lifestyle0 -
****Airspace in Northern Iron, Scotland, Northern England (Teeside, Blackpool among those mentioned) opens tomorrow at 6am****0
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The midlands could be open by noon and the south by 6pm0
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Loved Allez les Addicks Ashley joke!
Still stuck in Rome. Hotel costs 140 euros per night. Hope the insurance company will cough up. Due to travel back by BA on Saturday. Hopeful that BA will run flights befote that but hopes go up and down (bit like Charlton really). Mrs W is very stressy so this is no picnic. At the airport hundreds of penniless travellors wait, people crying at the terminus etc. Have booked a train ticket for next Monday as an insurance against the flight being cancelled.
On the bright side, watched on the telly as Inter Milan huffed and puffed their way to a win against 10 man Juve on Saturday. Obviously the old problem of delivering the final ball is not just a Charlton/Racon problem. Plus Roma beat Lazio away in the big Rome derby. Quite a punch up at the end of the game aka Millwall.
Anyway, I hope to be home for the play-offs, hopefully with enough dosh to buy a ticket.0 -
Eurocontrol, on behalf of the EU, has closed UK Airspace.
There is sweet FA our elected government can do about it as EU members at any rate.0 -
Amazing, all an EU conspiracy!0
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Disgraceful! I demand IMMEDIATE reinstatement of all flights into and out of British airspace. Surely modern jet aircraft can cope with all of this? It's a deliberate conspiracy by the left-wing/green lobby/climate change brigade!!!
Luckily, I don't live under any flightpaths of consequence...0 -
Think I'll be back next Monday, so am gonna go Fiorentina v Chievo......missus doesnt know this fact yet....0
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Alas, the "new cloud" beckons0
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Hooray!
Wait a minute........ BOOOO[cite]Posted By: ISawLeaburnScore[/cite]****Airspace in Northern Iron, Scotland, Northern England (Teeside, Blackpool among those mentioned) opens tomorrow at 6am****0 -
[cite]Posted By: LenGlover[/cite]Eurocontrol, on behalf of the EU, has closed UK Airspace.
There is sweet FA our elected government can do about it as EU members at any rate.
And its almost certainly a wise move.
I came back from Taiwan to Australia last weekend and got chatting to one of the Cathay Pacific pilots at Hong Kong aiport.
He was an Aussie in his 50's so had been flying for years and, in his words, you'd have to be "bloody foolish" to want to fly without knowing the full implications of what would happen to your engines if they were affected by volcanic ash.
The airlines are whingeing, of course, but what would the reaction of people to the EU aviation authorities be if they gave the green light and a plane fell out of the sky because of engine failure caused by the ash?0 -
Heard this morning that Lufthansa have managed to run flight(s) from Beijing to Germany - not seen it confirmed in local press or news as yet.0
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Is it too early for Volcano jokes? Or should we let the dust settle first.....?0
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Too early - there's a lava things could still happen yet.0
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Is it too early for Volcano jokes? Or should we let the dust settle first.....?
I think this will probably just 'blow over' Chirpy.0 -
BA just issued this statement.
Following the latest information from National Air Traffic Services about the path of the volcanic ash affecting UK airspace, we regret we will not be able to operate any shorthaul flights on Tuesday 20 April.
We were planning to operate shorthaul flights scheduled to depart from 7pm, but these have now been cancelled.
We are still hoping to operate longhaul flights which are scheduled to depart after 4pm on Tuesday 20 April, however this remains subject to the full and permanent opening of airspace.0 -
seems to be a new eruption or more of same creating more ash, news seems a bit confused on this though - gonna mess up my weekend away in Sorento on Saturday
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I'm looking to book a holiday for early June, think I will wait a few weeks before booking anything...0
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The World Cup is going to be cancelled0
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isn't it in the other hemisphere tho? They just need to trundle down to Spain and hop on a plane0
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[cite]Posted By: WSS[/cite]The World Cup is going to be cancelled
That might do the South Africans a favour as i saw last night there's something like 400k tickets still unsold for the games.0 -
its cos they were only available online, and none of them have the internet, daft eh0
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they do have the tinternet in south africa but i think the tickets were prohibitively expensive for locals0
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they do have it but not much I heard, anyway my version sounds better..
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Jon Gaunt in The Sun today reckons its 'elf and safety' gone mad.
I hope they use him to test the safety when its all running again, fat northern cretin.0 -
I think he's got Lapland and Iceland confused0
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Had a couple in the bar last night who Thomas Cook have flown back from Dominican Republic, they were headed for Malaga, and then got diverted to Faro. They were all inclusive in DR, and T. Cook have got them a similar deal here (without alcoholic drinks though) for as long as it takes. T Cook are footing the bill, so fair play to them.0
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Just been told a story about a guy in one of our other offices. Him and 9 mates were off on a stag to Poland last thursday. He was however flying separately from the other mates (Northerners) who were all going from Manchester. He took off from London, arrived in Poland, rung the others to find out where they were. "We're still in Manchester mate, we weren't allowed to take off".
He's now on his 6th day on his own in Poland whilst the others came down to London and had the stag do down here all weekend.0 -
That is the very definition of grim.[cite]Posted By: Chris_from_Sidcup[/cite]Just been told a story about a guy in one of our other offices. Him and 9 mates were off on a stag to Poland last thursday. He was however flying separately from the other mates (Northerners) who were all going from Manchester. He took off from London, arrived in Poland, rung the others to find out where they were. "We're still in Manchester mate, we weren't allowed to take off".
He's now on his 6th day on his own in Poland whilst the others came down to London and had the stag do down here all weekend.0
