UK and Europe Closed For Business-All Flights Grounded

Many UK and European travellers planning to fly today have had their plans interupted by of all things a Volcano eruption in Iceland. Eyjafjallajoekull which began erupting on March 21 is the reason behind nearly 4000 flights being cancelled.

The country’s effected are primarily the UK, Sweden, France, Denmark, Finland, Belgium, and the Netherlands. All have varying shutdown times as the cloud of Volcanic ash is charted across their airspace.

Many people are frustrated at the reason for the grounding of aircr5raft on such an unprecidented scale. When asked experts explained that the problem comes from the ash entering the turbine engines and melting to coat the turbine blades with a glass like substance. This inturn disturbs the air flow and could over time cause the engine to fail. The obvious problems that this would cause in a single aircraft are catastrophic let alone multiple instances.

Lord Adonis the UK Transport Secretary said he was “closely monitoring the situation” and that emergency meeting were scheduled with transport officials.

This is also causing problems for campaigning politicians as they all had tight travel schedules to meet the electorate which relied on air travel.

At the time of writing no officials could confirm when the grounded aircraft would be allowed to lift off again.