Posted on 04/19/2010 12:11:07 AM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
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Looks like the winds aloft are shifting according to Euro Control Weather and Gander Oceanic
Go to this web site:
http://www.jeppesen.com/aviation/personal/aviation-weather.jsp#
In the center column titled Europe go down the list to the two links labeled North Atlantic High Level Sig and click on them to get a pictorial of the ash clod and the drift.
Some flights out of St. Johns, Newfoundland scheduled for this morning were cancelled yesterday evening.
That is a GREAT weather site!
YouTube has an updated depiction of the extent of the cloud.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-4TB47N3_Y&feature=player_embedded
We were scheduled to go to Brussels this AM but it won’t be happening. Just got off the phone with Jeppesen Int’l Trip Planning Service a few ago and they said that most of Europe was still shutdown and now they were closing tacks over the North Atlantic.
I’ve been reading avidly since my DH is in Europe right now. I’ve read that some expecet resrtictions to lift soon at least in some places. Did you hear that?
The only ones talking about lifting restrictions are the airlines. The controlling authorities have not said either way. They are looking at it every hour on the hour as new satellite photos and imagery become available.
My guess is you will see a small lifting of the airspace closure over land first with over water limits still in place. Probably with limits on routes, only flights between large city pairs. Like Berlin to Paris and London to Madrid that kind of thing.
If that goes well for a period of 12 to 24 hours then you will see further lifting.
With over water routes lifted last.
That volcano is still erupting. As long as the ash is spewing from that fissure, putting jets aloft will be risky.
I’ve been in contact with Americans in Europe who are coming home via merchant vessels. There is a backlog, and the waiting time to depart is growing long, though at least they have a firm departure date which folks waiting for flight restrictions to lift certainly do not.
Thanks for your input.
I’m trying to read everything (and other stuff!) and keep thinking that the real news is the stuff I haven’t found yet.
At least his ticket isn’t until later in May.
What do you mean by merchant vessels?
I’m wondering if flights remain cancelled for a long time, if, say, the eruption just keeps going or gets worse, will anyone receive refunds? I would assume a lot of airlines will be losing so much money they couldn’t do that.
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Merchant vessels will take on board a limited number of passengers. I’ve known of people who wanted to travel by ship, point to point, but weren’t interested in cruise lines.
Check out the following at post #42
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2494820/posts
Good luck and Godspeed!
Thank you. I hope that regular passenger ships make a comeback. I crossed the Atlantic twice as a child around 1959-60. I would much rather travel that way than fly.
Could this correctly be typifed or categorized then, as a Free Republic “Ash Alert”??
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It would.
Unless you’re just trying to cover your ash.
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