Flights cancelled due to volcanic ash cloud from Iceland, Eyjafjallajokull

[TUB023]

BRU airport closed from 16.30

[Bralo20]

Update:

UK Airspace will remain closed until friday April 16, 2010 06h00 GMT (07h00 CET)

[Bralo20]

Update:

UK Airspace will remain closed until friday April 16, 2010 06h00 GMT (07h00 CET)

Latest news:

Update:

UK Airspace will remain closed until friday April 16, 2010 07h00 GMT (08h00 CET)

[airtrotter]

the North-West part of Belgian airspace should be closed by now, but i can still see traffic bound for AMS going through???

[SN539]

BRU airport closed from 16.30

The ash cloud is foreseen to be overhead Benelux tomorrow morning according the official meteorological services(IRM/KMI). Why do they then already close the airspace now ?

[Kate]

What do people reckon that the chances are of a flight leaving Brussels for Dublin at 21.00hr tomorrow night??
All suggestions welcome. Thanks!

[Kate]

BRU airport closed from 16.30

The ash cloud is foreseen to be overhead Benelux tomorrow morning according the official meteorological services(IRM/KMI). Why do they then already close the airspace now ?

[tolipanebas]

SN has now decided to suspend all flying till TOMORROW evening, 6PM as the Belgian airspace is not going to open anytime soon.

This situation could last for several days...

[Bralo20]

United Airlines has cancelled ALL flights to and from the following airports EFF 15APR2010 until further notice:

LHR
CDG
AMS
BRU
FRA
DME

[Skystef]

BRU airport closed from 16.30

The ash cloud is foreseen to be overhead Benelux tomorrow morning according the official meteorological services(IRM/KMI). Why do they then already close the airspace now ?

Small clarification: the only advisory organ for Belgian civil aviation and its airports is the met office of Belgocontrol. But of course not very well known by the media people.


Here a small explantion with a satellite picture: brown-black clouds within the black marked zone are ash plumes, so the first cloud is already over the southern Northsea. It will reach the coast around 16UTC, EBBR around 20UTC. It remains uncertain when the cloud clears our area as the airflow remains coming from the still very active volcano. So with some bad luck airspace might be closed for 24 hours or more.


Taken from my source (in Dutch) via this link

[SN539]

BRU airport closed from 16.30

The ash cloud is foreseen to be overhead Benelux tomorrow morning according the official meteorological services(IRM/KMI). Why do they then already close the airspace now ?

Small clarification: the only advisory organ for Belgian civil aviation and its airports is the met office of Belgocontrol. But of course not very well known by the media people.


Here a small explantion with a satellite picture: brown-black clouds within the black marked zone are ash plumes, so the first cloud is already over the southern Northsea. It will reach the coast around 16UTC, EBBR around 20UTC. It remains uncertain when the cloud clears our area as the airflow remains coming from the still very active volcano. So with some bad luck airspace might be closed for 24 hours or more.


Taken from my source (in Dutch) via this link

Thank you for this explanation !!

[tolipanebas]

If you want to see how the situation will likely evolve:



It's an estimate from the Norwegians, for Saturday morning...

Looks like BRU might have to be closed for the rest of the week even...

[b-west]

Imagine that! At the end of the easter holiday, with thousands of Belgians still abroad...

[TCAS_climb]

Nice image Tolipanebas, where did you get that ?

[Propwash]

'Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All our engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get it under control. I trust you are not in too much distress.'

Articles Airline captain recalls flying through volcanic ash and The story of BA flight 009 and the words every passenger dreads ...

[Darjeeling]

This will cost tons of €€€ and $$$ for the airlines.

After the snow's disruptions of this winter, it's just a huge setback for the airline industry.

[easyland]

This evening folowing French airports are closed for traffic said DGAC :
Calais, le Touquet, Cherbourg, Amiens, Lille, Valenciennes, Brest, Lannion, Deauville, Morlaix, Quimper, Rennes, Caen, Strasbourg, Vatry, Reims, Metz, Beauvais, Pontoise, Orly,Roissy Charles de Gaulle, Bourget...

In red : important airports with more flights...
Who's next?

[tolipanebas]

This will cost tons of €€€ and $$$ for the airlines.

After the snow's disruptions of this winter, it's just a huge setback for the airline industry.

That's for sure.

SN already had to fork out several millions of euro for the winter disruptions (when BRU as well as several European airports were closed), and estimates this event to cost them a similar sum a day...

Imagine this drags on till (after) the weekend.

Nice demonstration of how profits can be completely eaten away by external factors.

2010 looks like another lost year for much of the aviation industry, regardless of any economical revival.

[BaDaR]

According to Sky news

Belgium Airspace is closed till tomorrow 17:00

Their is special program on sky news right now called Britain Grounded, its just started for next 2 hours.

anybody interested then watch here
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Sky-Live-TV

[BrightCedars]

So Belgium and Germany are closed? Too bad we're flying LH back from BEY to BRU via FRA on Sat.

Looks like the vacation may be forcibly extended. At best we'll have some equipment swap to larger stuff to cope with cancelled flights. At worst we'll have to do part of the trip other than by air with 2 younglings.

Better safe than sorry though, I wouldn't want to hear those dreaded words on either of our twin engined.