UK Airports Open but at a much slower pace
 

But all planes must do New checks after
each flight.

Germany Airports had a better system
leaving it to the Pilot
today


Would you take the risk?



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Does this mean that everyone who is abroad, can come back now?

Imagine being the first people to fly after they opened, I'd be terrorfied ):

Some how i dont think they will stay opened, this morning most of Scotland's airports open at 7am by 1pm most of the had close again, dont think this over by a long shot..TBH

Im just so glad im not going/away in holiday at the moment & to be frank, i think i wouldn't want to go on a plain at this time.

About time!

Yes but it will be Slow
as the Planes have to check the Engines by hand and with a team , after each flight.



But from Sky News some Airlines may take
Legal action.


This could have been done yesterday.

oh :( i want my teachers to be stuck longer!

Sure
it may be a short time
but they have now changed the Rules
so those BA planes that went up yesterday
found alot out.

From LA a BA Flight will arrive tonight
confirmed.

At this time BA planes are in the Air doing big circles
until 10PM


If you have a Good Pilot
you will be OK.

i dont like my maths teacher i want her to stay in spain

Well those stuck in Spain
may have to wait another day or two.


The BA Flights arriving are from
America , Canada and the middle east.

Haha! I think my students are too young to wish I was stuck abroad but who knows maybe their all sat at home telling their parents how sad they are that I'm not! :joker:

Legal action against what? The volcano or the High Pressure Area that is causing the wind to blow the ash plume towards the UK? Or maybe the wind itself.

About lack of Funding.


Willie Walsh CEO of BA
said the UK Airports could have opened 2 days ago.

You have just made my night with that hilarious comment :elephant:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-airports.html


http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-...ir_Passengers_

what about Turkey? and Eygpt?

Yes those Flights will be OK.

But it is under a New Slower System
so you would have a wait longer than normal.

Engines have to be checked.


These New Guidelines are more like what America uses.

oh right, thanks :)

Airspace closure is a requirement under international safety regulations formulated by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) and requires closure and grounding when a Red Alert is given, ICAO states that there is "no definition of a safe concentration of ash for different aircraft, engine types and power settings."

Commercial aircraft do not have detectors that can detect and determine areas of high concentrations of Volcanic Ash. Nor are they maneouvrable enough to avoid thick concentrations detected by the Mark1 eyeball.

As for lack of funding, perhaps they should have done what they advise us to do. Obtain Insurance. It may reduce their profits a little eh?

While airline tests have shown there is substantive clean air through the levels, equally met office tests have shown that pockets of high concentration of ash do exist between the flight levels.

The ash is not uniform in the atmosphere and therefore it's possible to fly into one of these potentially dangerous pockets.


The airlines simply want to get back to making money, supposing NATS allow them to fly like they want and an aircraft crashes because of the ash, will the airline foot the bill for payments to the relatives of the dead or once again expect someone else to foot the bill, while continuing to make profits?

good! i want josh and chris from you me at six back from portugal as i'm seeing them friday night.

"and an aircraft crashes because of the ash, "


That is not what anyone wants.
Willie Walsh flew with test BA planes yesterday
he said we could have been flying 2 days ago.


This is a New system
Every Plane Engine has to be Checked for Ash.
That make good sense.

I would Fly.

I would fly too.

But its okay saying we could have flown a few days ago, (nice sound bite willie but total bollocks). Not all the little pockets of ash in the air can and have been detected and monitored, what happens if a plane flies into one?

Who will Willie blame, his own airline for their greed in forcing the issue, the government for allowing the scaling down of ICAO regulations or NATS for failing to detect the one that brings an aircraft down. Or again the volcano the wind and the high pressure system. Anyone but BA I bet.

Willie will blame New Labour
so they will pay him off at this Election time.

Arista are they only open for a short while or are they open for a longer period.?

Now that idea sounds good, maybe he should sue your mate Gordon.