Ash update: UK airspace returns to normal
Flights across the UK are returning to normal on Wednesday after the ash cloud from the Icelandic volcanic eruption cleared UK skies.
However airlines, including British Airways, have had to cancel some German services.
The Icelandic Meteorological Office said Grímsvötn – the country’s most active volcano – emitted more ash during the first 24 hours last weekend than Eyjafjallajökull had throughout the entire period of activity in April and May last year.
However the ash particles are coarser and heavier, which brings them back to earth more rapidly. Also winds blowing to the north round Iceland have kept the clouds away from other countries’ airspace. Rain has also helped to wash some of the ash out of the sky.
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It looks like German airspace is open for business now as well.
Planes have resumed taking off from and landing at Berlin’s airport, Hamburg and Bremen after being closed this morning, which resulted in the cancellation of about 700 flights.
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