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UK's Airports closed due to ash from Iceland's Volcanoe

It's not just the UK and Ireland. Airports are closed in all the Scandinavian countries, Belgium, Holland and Northern Germany. We've been dealing with this at Geneva Airport all day long. :shock:
 
Oh God, what a total and groundbreaking disaster.

You know what this means for the environment? Yes, scores of hundreds more hysterical eco-nutters, screeching on about what this will do to the polar ice caps and the ozone and stuff!

Still, they'd find it hard to blame the evil nazi car drivers this time!
 
Republic_Of_Public said:
Oh God, what a total and groundbreaking disaster.

You know what this means for the environment? Yes, scores of hundreds more hysterical eco-nutters, screeching on about what this will do to the polar ice caps and the ozone and stuff!

Still, they'd find it hard to blame the evil nazi car drivers this time!
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So you would rather have planes take off and crash and kill people?
 
Republic_Of_Public said:
Oh God, what a total and groundbreaking disaster.

You know what this means for the environment? Yes, scores of hundreds more hysterical eco-nutters, screeching on about what this will do to the polar ice caps and the ozone and stuff!

Still, they'd find it hard to blame the evil nazi car drivers this time!
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Actually no

All the volcanic ash will have a temporary depressing effect on global temperatures. Perhaps for a few months.
 
Yaay! So we're not quite all 'dooooomed', to use the words of Pte. Frazer!


And with fewer planes in the sky, there's far less water vapour to bother them at the moment too.

Bet they wish more volcanoes would be going off!

(But now we come to mention it, Vesuvius is due for another eruption around now.....)
 
Ash falling down in Scotland now - wonder what I'll find in the morning and it apparently smells of rotten eggs, Euch!
 
Republic_Of_Public said:
Oh God, what a total and groundbreaking disaster.

You know what this means for the environment? Yes, scores of hundreds more hysterical eco-nutters, screeching on about what this will do to the polar ice caps and the ozone and stuff!

Still, they'd find it hard to blame the evil nazi car drivers this time!
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I'm waiting for The Left, led by Obama, to claim it was Bush's fault.

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zimmer said:
I'm waiting for The Left, led by Obama, to claim it was Bush's fault.

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well while you wait with trivia, we have had to arrange for the navy to pick up some of our civilians and get others flown in from around the world to Spain which can accept flights while we also wait for the results of tests and investigations and so on to find out if planes can safely fly and whether the EU will finance this business.

At the same time there are growing concerns that this could go on for weeks and that another volcanoe in Iceland may erupt.

Children can get on with their playground fantasies, the rest with solving a serious problem - especially if you are one of those stranded or your relation is.
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The interesting thing about this whole saga is that we've been told almost daily that planes will start flying again at some point the next day.

If you watched the Grand Prix Qualis on Saturday, the company that ships F1 teams around the Globe plainly stated that they're expecting to go from China on Friday at the earliest - if at all this week.

Seems the politicians are telling industry one thing (probably the truth) and the flying public something else.
 
It takes a true partisan to turn a volcano erupting into a political event.
 
Infinite Chaos said:
Seems the politicians are telling industry one thing (probably the truth) and the flying public something else.
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I tend to agree to some degree. I think governments are telling the industry part of the truth, as in they probably already knew last Thursday that this would go on for almost a week if not more, but kept everyone's hopes up day after day so as not to cause a massive panic or drop in the stock market. As it stands now, airlines' stocks are going down fast every passing day. The industry is losing close to 200 million dollars A DAY. If this keeps up, I'm gonna lose my job or be put on temp leave without pay. Yay, unemployment benefits. :2razz:

Airlines are getting increasingly fed up with this and a few have conducted test flights resulting in no damage at all to the aircraft. That said, the tests were conducted at lower altitude than normal and in skies reportedly less affected by the ash cloud. Better safe than sorry, I say.

Either way, this is seriously ****ing up my life. Not just at work, but I was due to fly to the US next week to visit my BF and it's starting to look like my plans will have to be postponed.

Die, volcano, DIE!
 
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Arcana XV said:
I tend to agree to some degree. I think governments are telling the industry part of the truth, as in they probably already knew last Thursday that this would go on for almost a week if not more, but kept everyone's hopes up day after day so as not to cause a massive panic or drop in the stock market. As it stands now, airlines' stocks are going down fast every passing day. The industry is losing close to 200 million dollars A DAY. If this keeps up, I'm gonna lose my job or be put on temp leave without pay. Yay, unemployment benefits. :2razz:

Airlines are getting increasingly fed up with this and a few have conducted test flights resulting in no damage at all to the aircraft. That said, the tests were conducted at lower altitude than normal and in skies reportedly less affected by the ash cloud. Better safe than sorry, I say.

Either way, this is seriously ****ing up my life. Not just at work, but I was due to fly to the US next week to visit my BF and it's starting to look like my plans will have to be postponed.

Die, volcano, DIE!
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The EU's had a meeting on their laptops this afternoon looking at the results of planes that went up yesterday, tests and so on. Scotland and Northern Ireland will start flying tomorrow as well as parts of France, Germany and Belgium.

BBC News - Hopes rise flight turmoil may ease

Just let one plane come down through ash and.....
 
The main problem is concentration. One place might have low concentration and no risk, and 1 mile further on it might be high concentration and dangerous.

BA, KLM and a few others had planes up with no problems, where as the Finnish Air Force and US Air Force have had jets up that showed serious damage.

It is in cases like this that I would rather be cautious than not.

What pisses me off is the slow response on some governments in the no fly zones seem to think it would go away over a day or two and made no attempt to find alternative ways to get people in and out. This is especially bad for the UK since it is an island.

Like it or not southern Europe, including Spain is open and people can get out from here if they can get here and people can enter here. This has been known for days, but it is only today the Brits started to do something about it for example.

Another thing that pisses me off royally are the price gougers... some hotel rooms around the world shot up several 100% in price just because of this.. pathetic.
 
Republic_Of_Public said:
Let us remind ourselves...

http://www.debatepolitics.com/europ...humans-cause-climate-change-tm-even-idle.html
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LOL... and now a new ash cloud is on its way...

This is good, for everything can be used as a learning experience.

If the public had half a brain they would realize this is what the greenies and lefties would like to make of our mobility.

FT.com / Brussels - Air ban led by flawed computer models
And they cannot even make a model to predict airspace use from one measly volcano from a village nation. But global warming...well... that they've got figured out (even though they cannot tell us the role of water vapor in the role of our climate)... ROTFLOL.

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