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April 16, 2010

Vocanic Dust Halts Air Transport

A recent eruption in the Icelandic Volcano has disrupted air travel across much of Northern Europe in the past few days.
Hundreds of thousands of passengers in Europe and around the world have been affected.
Scientists say the volcano is still erupting but producing less ash. Europe’s intergovernmental air control agency, Eurocontrol, said it “expects around 11,000 flights to take place today in European airspace. On a normal day, we would expect 28,000.” Of about 300 transatlantic flights that would usually arrive in Europe in the morning, no more than 120 made it over, the agency said.