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I`m with Kymmy on this one, I`d sooner my girls are safe and NO chances are taken with the safety of anyone for profit.:confused:

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BA are also doing a test flight from Heathrow over to Ireland, do a couple of curcuits at altitude and back to their engineering centre to check the plane.
On that flight one of the "passengers" is Willie Walsh.

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Hope they`ve got parachutes.;)

Does anyone know whats being done to help anyone stranded who is on medication for any conditions?
Are the consulates getting involved at all?:(

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Foreign office helpline
020 7008 0000

As for medication. I would assume that if you produced packaging from medicine that was in your posession that was prescribed to you, went to a chemist with you passport & explained the situation the chemist would sell you the medication that you re on. Supposition on my part though.

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Mixed signals from Eyjafjallajökull :dozey:

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL...0:b33019416:z0

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I was listening to a radio phone-in on the travel chaos this afternoon and it's clear that there are UK citizens with serious medical problems who're stuck abroad and are getting little or no help. Quite how drugs etc. which aren't available locally are going to be speedily shipped abroad is anyone's guess however..

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The wife's just picked up her car from the airport where she left it on Tuesday for a 2 day businesstrip. She should be home in an hour, after an over-land trip from Northern Italy which involved colleagues meeting her in France.

:cleader: :cleader: :D

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Listening to the news this morning it seems the Dunkirk spirit has infected lots of stranded tourists and their hosts.All sorts of efforts to get people where they are supposed to be have been going on..including one minibus all the way from Turkey arriving at Calais and another from Scandinavia. All cheerful at being crammed onto an overcrowded ferry.

However it's a very different story for anyone in the US..One family have been told that they may have to wait until the 27th even if flying resumes immediately.Me I think I'd be seeing if there were any ships if that was the best on offer especially as in typical US attitude no one is offering them any assistance with accomodation.

Anyway the government are on the case.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8628878.stm

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Cuts both ways, that, I heard about a lady stranded here who can't get drugs at the pharmacy and was told to go to A&E, which isn't exactly going to help much.

Fly low level, brim the tanks at Shannon, fly low until clear of the cloud then up and away, diverting to Gander if you start to run short. Problem is insurance, expense of the extra fuel and that you can't get that many planes through.

I believe that's called 'common sense'. Well done.

Simple - the profit margins are so thin due to competition that they literally don't have spare vehicles, so they can effectively max out their capacity without having to go out of their way. The French railways, notably, being state owned and inefficient, do have scads of spare trains lying around, so can do things a bit better.

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A good friend of mine is stuck in ibiza with her 2 kids , she is running very low on money but is on standby to fly out on wendnesday with ryaniar which sadly i dont see happening ( i havent said that to her as i dont want her to worry to much ) , ive been in constant contact with her via facebook trying to give support as it must be pretty scary for her and her kids , the good news is she has her room in the hotel for another 2 nights as she was meant to be flying today and she said ryanair have been fantastic helping her !

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The latest headlines concerning the Fly to Spain and then the navy gets you home looks like it's gonna go ahead

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Latest news.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Bus...eland_Eruption

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Well I suspect that a lot of cover workers will be ask to stand in for missing workers through out all the varying disciplines.I've got work for the rest of the week.

Even the deputy who usually gives me work is stuck in Crete.Which means that the school will be without it's art technician as she is his wife.

Anyone else here having to cover for missing staff?

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We're missing my Networks Manager, who is stuck in Canaries - his team is covering for him, and his boss will help manage the workload.