When I was reading the news a few days ago about the vulcano erruptions on iceland, I wasnt worried at all. As long as nobody gets in trouble due to lava I thought there wont be any affection.
Now, I am actually concerned by only this ash cloud. It pretty much is the reason why thousands of flights from and to Europe were cancelled and millions of air travellers stranded across Europe.
Europe's three biggest airports -- London Heathrow, Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Frankfurt -- were closed by the ash, leaving passengers stranded across the world as a global flight backlog built up.
My friend from Germany who is visiting right now and was supposed to fly out from Honolulu to San Francisco with a connection flight to Frankfurt, Germany, was not possible. Also some of my friends in South Africa are stranded or can not get a flight from Spain back to Berlin.
It is the biggest airspace shutdown since World War II, air traffic had controllers warned that the cloud was likely to cause fresh travel disruption.
Justifying the widespread airport closures aviation officials have explained that airplane engines could become clogged up and stop working if they tried to fly through the ash.
Even our German Chancellor Angela Merkel was stranded in Lisbon, Portuguese President Anibal Cavaco Silva in Prague and a UN Security Council delegation cancelled a trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo that would have flown out of Paris.
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