Iceland Volcano Update: Europe Flight Delays Continue (Ash Found In Jet Engines)

Travel Agent Central ^ | 5-10-2010 | Meagan Drillinger

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Iceland Volcano Update: Europe Flight Delays Continue

May 10, 2010
By: Meagan Drillinger
TravelAgentCentral

Sources are reporting continuing flight delays in Europe as a result of the Eyjafjallajokul volcano eruption in Iceland.

According to Examiner.com, two Ryanair jets (Europe's low-cost airline) were found with ash in its engines. Four Ryanair flights were canceled on Sunday, May 9, leaving more passengers in the all-too familiar stranded predicament.

British Airways and EasyJet are reporting minimal delays as of this morning, May 10.

Eurocontrol told Examiner.com that an expected 28,500 flights were go forward today, around 2 percent below normal levels.

As of May 10 all European airports were open but there is concern that winds could push ash from the volcano back over Portugal and Spain later in the day.

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[ProtectOurFreedom]

I’ll bet those engines are junk now. The fan and compressor blades are probably erorded; the combustion cans probably have melted ash deposits; and the turbine blades all have melted ash deposits on them. At a minimum, they’ll have to change out all turbine blades and combustors and maybe replace the compressor blades. That is going to be an expensive experience.

[tcrlaf]

They are going to push it until a few hundred people die in a crash. The all-mighty dollar rules.

[tcrlaf]

“That is going to be an expensive experience.”

Hope they bought the hourly Engine Maintenance Plan...

[Del Rapier]

People need to value each other over money......easy to say a lot harder to practice.

[Marine_Uncle]

This volcano is going to shut down most of the European air traffic eventually. One crash of a jet and it is all over for them. I cannot however think. How not one jet crashed after and for the next few months after mount Saint Helenia blew her stack, stopped major American flights from happening.
Huge amounts of ash and gasses for a long time filtered across the upper USA to the eastern seaboard.
In the case of mount H, perhaps we where just very very lucky.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

[gleeaikin]

I have a new tenant who was stuck in Europe for 10 extra days last month, she was very frustrated trying to find a place to live on 4 days notice before her job began.

[ImaGraftedBranch]

My flight from France to Atlanta on Saturday was delayed 3 hours on the tarmac while they prepared a new route. It took us NE toward Finland, NW across Scandanavia, over the arctic circle, straight South over Canada, the UP in MI, and then down to Atlanta. Total time on the plane: 15 hours. The next day flights were canceled all over.

Whew.

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Welcome home! (whew!)

[ProtectOurFreedom]

One of our sales engineers who lives in London was stuck in the States for an extra 10 days. He was very happy to finally get home. He doesn’t seem to enjoy California very much.

[FreedomPoster]

Yikes! I’m supposed to go to the south of France in June. I’m really wondering how smart that is.