. GEOLOGY: VOLCANOS : COUNTRIES: ICELAND : EUROPE : TRANSPORTATION AIR AIRLINE AIRPLANE AVIATION: Volcanic Ash Cloud: Misery for a Million as Airlines Count the Cost Volcanic Ash Cloud: Misery for a Million as Airlines Count the CostMore than a million British airline passengers have been left stranded or had their plans disrupted by the volcanic ash cloud sweeping across Europe.
By Nick Britten and David Millward Published: 10:45PM BST 16 Apr 2010 Telegraph <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/7599751/ Volcanic-ash-cloud-misery-for-a-million-as-airlines-count-the-cost.html> A shorter URL for the above link: <http://tinyurl.com/yyclojy>With the skies over England and Wales having been closed for almost two days, the British airline industry is in the grip of an unprecedented shutdown. An estimated 500,000 people pass through British airports every day. For the past 48 hours, almost all have seen their flights cancelled by the fallout from the Icelandic volcano.
Another 200,000 Britons who want to fly back into the country are now thought to be stranded. Those in far-flung destinations have been told they may not be able to return for nine days.
<snip>Experts said the travel misery could last a fortnight. But volcanologists warned that the ash cloud was moving towards the South East and showed few signs of abating.
Even when British airspace fully reopens, the backlog of flights will take days to clear.
The shutdown engulfed most of Europe yesterday, with 16,000 of the usual 28,000 flights across the Continent cancelled.
------------------------------------- The complete article may be read at the URL above. Sincerely, David Dillard Temple University (215) 204 - 4584 jwne@xxxxxxxxxx <http://daviddillard.businesscard2.com> Net-Gold <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/net-gold> Index: <http://tinyurl.com/myxb4w> <http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/net-gold.html> <http://groups.google.com/group/net-gold?hl=en> General Internet & Print Resources <http://guides.temple.edu/general-internet> COUNTRIES <http://guides.temple.edu/general-country-info> EMPLOYMENT <http://guides.temple.edu/EMPLOYMENT> TOURISM <http://guides.temple.edu/tourism> DISABILITIES http://guides.temple.edu/DISABILITIES INDOOR GARDENING <http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IndoorGardeningUrban/> Educator-Gold <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Educator-Gold/> K12ADMINLIFE <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/K12AdminLIFE/> RUSSELL CONWELL CENTER SUBJECT GUIDE http://guides.temple.edu/Russell-Conwell-Center THE COLLEGE LEARNING CENTER <http://tinyurl.com/yae7w79> Nina Dillard's Photographs on Net-Gold http://tinyurl.com/36qd2o and also http://gallery.me.com/neemers1 Net-Gold Membership Required to View Photos on Net-Gold Twitter: davidpdillard Bushell, R. & Sheldon, P. (eds), Wellness and Tourism: Mind, Body, Spirit, Place, New York: Cognizant Communication Books. Wellness Tourism: Bibliographic and Webliographic Essay David P. Dillard <http://tinyurl.com/p63whl> <http://tinyurl.com/ou53aw> INDOOR GARDENING Improve Your Chances for Indoor Gardening Success http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/IndoorGardeningUrban/ http://groups.google.com/group/indoor-gardening-and-urban-gardening SPORT-MED https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/sport-med.html http://groups.google.com/group/sport-med http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sports-med/ http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/sport-med.html Health Diet Fitness Recreation Sports Tourism http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/healthrecsport/ http://groups.google.com/group/healthrecsport http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/health-recreation-sports-tourism.html Please Ignore All Links to JIGLU in search results for Net-Gold and related lists. The Net-Gold relationship with JIGLU has been terminated by JIGLU and these are dead links. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/30664 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/healthrecsport/message/145 .