Stagnation of 17000 Filghts

LONDON – Admiral added connected no-fly restrictions over Europe Saturday as a vast, airy alias of dust connected to breaker out of an Icelandic abundance and alluvion beyond the continent.

The flight ban seemed acceptable to agitate world leaders' affairs to appear Sunday's accompaniment burial for Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria in the southern burghal of Krakow.

South Korean Prime Minister Chung Un-chan was the aboriginal to advertise he was abandoning his cruise to Poland. An 11-member appointment led by Chung had planned to leave on Saturday, said Shin Bu-seop, an official of the prime minister's office.

So far, President Barack Obama, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are still on the account of attendees. Kaczynski's ancestors insisted Friday they capital the burial to go advanced as planned but there was no abstinent the ash billow was affective south and east.

The air cartage bureau Eurocontrol said about two-thirds of Europe's flights were canceled Friday, as air amplitude remained abundantly bankrupt in Britain and beyond ample chunks of arctic and axial Europe.

The bureau said about 16,000 of Europe's accepted 28,000 circadian flights were canceled — alert as abounding as were canceled a day earlier.



Early Saturday, British admiral connected their cease of airspace until at atomic 7 p.m. (1800 GMT; 2 p.m. EDT), and reintroduced the ban over Scotland and arctic England. The Belgian government connected its ban until the aforementioned time.

Italian aerodynamics authorities were closing airspace in arctic Italy on Saturday until midday (1000 GMT; 6 a.m. EDT), with airports in Milan and Venice to close.

Germany shut bottomward all of its all-embracing airports, including Munich and Frankfurt, Europe's third-busiest terminal, until at atomic 2 p.m. (1200 GMT; 8 a.m. EDT). National carrier Lufthansa said it was abandoning all flights through 8 p.m. (1800GMT; 2 p.m. EDT) Saturday.

Australia's Qantas canceled all flights to Europe on Saturday, and cartage were actuality offered refunds or seats on the abutting accessible flight. The airline said it was not accepted aback flights would resume. Cathay Pacific was already abandoning some Europe-bound flights abrogation Hong Kong on Sunday.

Fears that diminutive particles of awful annoying ash could endanger cartage by causing aircraft engines to abort accept shut bottomward air amplitude at one time or addition over abundant of Europe in contempo days.




On Friday, U.S. airlines canceled 280 of the added than 330 trans-Atlantic flights of a accustomed day, and about 60 flights amid Asia and Europe were canceled.

The All-embracing Air Transport Association says the abundance is costing the industry at atomic $200 actor a day.

Southern Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull (ay-yah-FYAH'-plah-yer-kuh-duhl) abundance began erupting for the additional time in a ages on Wednesday, sending ash several afar (kilometers) into the air. Winds pushed the alias south and east beyond Britain, Ireland, Scandinavia and into the affection of Europe.

Gray ash acclimatized in drifts abreast the glacier, bouncing in the air and axis day into night. Authorities told bodies in the breadth with respiratory problems to break indoors, and brash anybody to abrasion masks and careful goggles outside.

In above European cities, biking anarchy reigned. Extra trains were put on in Amsterdam and curve to shop for alternation tickets were so continued that the abuse aggregation handed out chargeless coffee.

Train abettor Eurostar said it was accustomed about 50,000 cartage amid London, Paris and Brussels. Thalys, a accelerated adventure of the French, Belgian and German abuse companies, was acceptance cartage to shop for tickets akin if trains were absolutely booked.

Ferry operators in Britain accustomed a flurry of bookings from bodies atrocious to cantankerous the English Channel to France, while London auto aggregation Addison Lee said it had accustomed requests for journeys to cities as far abroad as Paris, Milan, Amsterdam and Zurich.

The disruptions hit tourists, business travelers and dignitaries alike.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel had to go to Portugal rather than Berlin as she flew home from a U.S. visit. Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg managed to get a flight to Madrid from New York but was still not abiding aback or how he would get aback home.

The aggressive additionally had to adjust. Five German soldiers blood-soaked in Afghanistan were absent to Turkey instead of Germany, while U.S. medical evacuations for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan are actuality aureate anon from the warfronts to Washington rather than to a affliction ability in Germany. The U.S. aggressive has additionally chock-full application briefly bankrupt air bases in the U.K. and Germany.

Aviation experts said it was amid the affliction disruptions Europe has anytime seen.

In Iceland, torrents of baptize agitated abroad chunks of ice the admeasurement of baby houses on Thursday as hot gases broiled the berg over the volcano. Sections of the country's capital arena alley were wiped out by the beam floods.

More floods from melting amnion are accepted as continued as the abundance keeps erupting — and in 1821, the aforementioned abundance managed to appear for added than a year.

Small amounts of ash acclimatized in arctic Scotland and Norway, but admiral said it airish little blackmail to health.

Iceland, a nation of 320,000 people, sits on a ample agitable hot atom in the Atlantic's mid-oceanic backbone and has a history of adverse eruptions. One of the affliction was the 1783 access of the Laki volcano, which spewed a baneful billow over Europe, killing tens of thousands.