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SWEDEN, NORWAY AIRPORTS CLOSED AGAIN DUE TO VOLCANIC ASH

  1. Posted on Thursday 22 April 2010 - 11:54
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    Some airports in Sweden and Norway have closed again despite earlier projections that air traffic in Europe would return to normal by Thursday 22nd April 2010.
    TT news agency has reported that Gothenburg's Landvetter and Malmo's Sturup airports in southern Sweden closed late on Wednesday when part of the volcanic ash cloud took an unexpected turn north.
    The airports are expected to open later, while an official at the country's main airport at Stockholm said the moving ash cloud may force its closure.
    In Norway, the country's second and fourth largest airports were also closed.
    Eurocontrol, the European air traffic agency, said the latest flight restrictions also applied to northern Scotland and parts of Finland.
    Tens of thousands of people remain stranded around the world as airlines restart services after the unprecedented travel chaos.
    Six days after the eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland triggered the first airspace closures, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said airlines had lost $1.7bn.
    At London's Heathrow Airport, Europe's busiest, traffic ran at 90% normal service on Wednesday. Many night flights are being allowed temporarily to help clear the backlog of stranded passengers.
    Transatlantic services have returned to their normal level, with 338 flights arriving in Europe on Wednesday, according to air traffic agency Eurocontrol.
    German airline Lufthansa said it would fly at full capacity by operating about 1,800 flights on Thursday, up from about 700 on Wednesday.
    Denmark, Norway and Sweden have lifted their no-fly bans, but some airspace restrictions remain over Finland and some remote Scottish isles.
    In Iceland, the Eyjafjallajokull volcano continues to erupt, but it is no longer spewing out ash into the atmosphere.
    Ends…..

    SWEDEN, NORWAY AIRPORTS CLOSED AGAIN DUE TO VOLCANIC ASH

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