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UK airspace restrictions now extended until 01:00am BST Monday

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The latest met office report said the volcano is still erupting & possibly intensifying.

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LOL @ Dan Snow and his Dunkirk style evacuation of Calais

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8627922.stm

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Not sure if I would be that desperate, to cross one of the busiest shipping channels in world in an inflatable......

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How about hiding in a lorry at the Channel Tunnel terminal?

My boss is due to fly to New York tomorrow (for work), and a colleague to Vietnam (holiday). Neither will be pleased to see me tomorrow. :erm:

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Not Good :(

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Watching this morning's news about one group of travellers who made it onto a cross channel ferry from Caen to Portsmouth arriving about 9pm last night.

There was nearly a riot when they discovered that they were required to queue up for passport control because they were all in danger of missing the last train/bus home.

In the end the police who had been called by the Ferryport immigration control decided that everyone holding up their passports in the air was sufficient for them to pass through.

They all missed their connections though..and then spent the night at the train stations and bus station.

Why am I not surprised that the rail and bus companies seemed to make no effort to hold one or two services over.Where has the entrepreneurial spirit of our various travel industries gone?Me if I was the boss of National Express I'd be rubbing my hands with glee and arranging extra buses for occasions like this.

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Daughter is stuck in Oz until Thursday now. Waiting for updates.

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The News of the world says it could be at least another 10 days yet.! :erm:
I really hope not.:mad:
http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news...h-spreads.html

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That paper knows no more than anyone else, so don't pay any attention budweiser ;)

I'm sure things will be back to normal soon and everyone will have their loved onces back where they belong :)

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Latest from the NATS website.
http://www.nats.co.uk/

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BA are doing some test flights between Heathrow & Cardiff tonight. KLM & other European carriers have already carried out some test filghts internally and all planes showed zero signs of damage\contamination or errors in the storunning of the engines.

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:( Can they guarantee that every single airway is clear and will stay clear?? The tests they've done is like saying that because the B113 is clear of ice in mid january then every road in the country is clear and will stay clear :(

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To me the tests are sham because they not FLYING the height the danger is.

PLANES cant fly lower too far as they use more FUEL and would possible they could run out before destination on transatlantic flights. They use the upper Air to conserve fuel its alright flying 2-9k from heathrow to bristol put it upto 28k right in the thick of it see what happens. They WONT because it would be dangerous.

Airlines are now trying to pressure to re-open to me there is self interest of them stopping losing money rather than SAFETY.

CLOSING AIRSPACE whether we/they like it or not is the safest thing to do. What happens if they cave in allow them to fly and there is BIG AIR disaster say an airplane hits a TOWN or CITY as it loses all engines. Who will be to blame.

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EuroControl hope to operate 50% of flights in Europe tomorrow.