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UK Resumes No Fly Zone Beginning 1 AM GMT Due To Volcanic Ash: Heathrow And Gatwick Closed
Just what Europe needs (where the EURUSD and EURJPY opened earlier at level below the Friday close): more air traffic shut downs due to the unpronounceable Iceland volcano. Beginning 1 AM GMT, so in about an hour, Heathrow and Getwick will be shut down, "with more disruptions likely over coming days" reports the BBC. Virtually all airports in the UK, including Heathrow and Gatwick will be shut down, causing more millions in losses for both commercial aviation and crimping trade in and out of Europe, especially for time-sensitive products. As of yet it is not certain when airports will resume operations. In the meantime if you are flying into Europe with a UK connection over the next 24 hours, you are out of luck.
From BBC
The air traffic authority Nats said the Civil Aviation Authority had been forced to extend a no-fly zone imposed earlier on Sunday after the ash cloud had spread further south.
In England, other airports inside the no-fly zone include Humberside, Leeds Bradford, Blackpool, Sheffield, Doncaster and Carlisle.
In Wales, Caernarfon is the only airport affected.
All three Northern Ireland airports - Belfast International, George Best Belfast City Airport and City of Derry Airport - have also been shut.
In the Irish Republic, Dublin Airport is closed until at least 0900 on Monday.
Donegal, Sligo and Ireland West airports have been closed until 1200 on Monday, and Galway until 0900. Waterford Airport is due to close at 2300 on Sunday until at least 0900 on Monday.
In Scotland, Prestwick airport, near Glasgow, said it would not "receive" any flights until 1245 on Monday. Aberdeen airport said it will close between 0100 and 0700 on Monday.
The UK no-fly zones are set out by the Civil Aviation Authority using Met Office data.
In an attempt to soothe nerves, a Manchester Airport official said "There is absolutely no official suggestion or prediction that the prolonged, continent-wide airspace restrictions experienced in April are about to occur again." We wish we could share the optimism - something tells us the Iceland revenge only going to get worse.
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Yeah, like this wasn't all planned.....
"Heathrow and Getwick will be shit down,"
Gordon Gecko wrote a great article a week or so ago on Icelandic volcanoes. Things would get MUCH MORE interesting if Katla (a bigger volcano nearby) blows up.
Awww... Tyler corrected the "shit down". I thought the orginal post was a more vivid description.
But so far hasn't corrected "Getwick"
Things would get MUCH MORE interesting if Katla (a bigger volcano nearby) blows up.
Interesting? Don't you mean FUBAR? Or Majorly-FUBAR-BB (Beyond Belief)
SAPFU: Surpassing All Previous Fuck Ups.
Although in the case of volcanoes, no one is to blame, except maybe Bush. He'll be blamed for stuff for decades...
Yeah, yeah, but you could short agriculture, and such, make lemonade as it were.
here is gordo's blog post.
http://gordongekkosblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/air-travel-disrupted-over-europe-again.html
Thanks. I probably needed to read that.
Can't we just attack it first?
Let's dumb bomb the (w)hole volcan-thing.
January 5, 2010 was a historical day for Icelanders. The Icelandic President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson had a tough decision to make, and difficult choices to make. To listen to the 23% of the nation that signed a petition calling on him to put the state guarantee for 5.4 billion dollars to be paid to the British and Dutch governments to a national referendum. Or to ignore the nation and sign the bill for the government, after the bill had been passed through the parliament with a narrow vote on December 30, 2009 after months of acrimonious debate, tainted with secrecy and dishonesty on the part of the government. Every day throughout the debate, new information would emerge and documents would leak to local media or wikileaks. Yesterday, the people of Iceland finally had a chance to have something to say about their fate, because if the state guarantee is accepted it will mean that Iceland will become like a third world country, spending its GDP largely on paying interest on foreign debt. Last summer, a bill for a state guarantee was passed that had a significant meaning not only for Iceland, but also for other nations around the world facing the same problems of private debt being forced on taxpayers. The bill included a reasonable and fair way of handling the interest and the debt: Icelanders would pay, but only a certain percentage of their GDP, and if there were to be another financial black hole, they would not pay during that time. Thus it comes as no surprise that the Dutch and British governments reacted so swiftly with a condemnation of Iceland’s citizens for having the audacity to think they have the right to exercise their democratic rights in deciding for themselves what is in the best economic interests of their nation.
Let’s also put this debt into perspective: 320.000 people live in Iceland, each and every person on the island, including children and the elderly, the disabled and the poor, would have to pay around $30,000 under the bill. The danger if Icelanders will accept this enormous burden is that the entire welfare system would simply collapse with no money to run it. On January 5th the Icelandic president had the courage, backed up by his nation, to place the interest of the people before that of the banks.
Of course there has been an incredible spin by the government controlled media, attacking the nation and the president for this simple and fair demand. The UK and Dutch media were also full of misleading news, saying the nation had demanded not to pay, and that we would become isolated and there were even suggestions that the British navy should flex its muscles against this nation which has no military. As if the terrorist act they imposed on us was not enough during the darkest hour of our crises to bring us further down!
The spin is failing because people around the world are finally starting to hear our side of the story, and other suppressed nations have perhaps seen this as a sign that they can also rise up against the corpocracy in our world where those with the money have as a rule always won. Let’s hope the nation will not been coaxed into fear of isolation and let’s hope the people of the world will join in this experiment of letting the interest of the peoples rise above the interests of banks, corporations, and international bullies such as the IMF.
Documentation: I append links to the files about Icesave that were leaked to wikileaks, and which show how the EU member states blackmailed Iceland into the same corner the government helped push into by accepting the Icesave bill. This file also contains letters between the main financial adviser to the Iceland Finance Minister and Mark Flanagan of the IMF:
copy of http://file.wikileaks.org/leak/icesave-eu7.pdf
In a nod to cosmic Karma, the economic damage to the rest of the world from Icelandic volcanoes will eventually equal multiples of what Iceland owes the world.
A lot of Icelanders owe money to a couple of Icelandic banks who owe a lot of money to some big banks and a couple of governments but IMHO Iceland doesn't owe the world dick.
January 5, 2010 was a historical day for Icelanders.
Hopefully a Beacon for countries the world over from one of the smallest and bravest.
How do we sign on?
Never a Newsweek cover: We're all Icelanders now!
Look out for Katla.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/290820
the Icelanders obviously misunderstood, we "said send us our cash.."
lost in translation... :)
How are they going to get the gold out of Europe if the airports are closed?
How are they going to get the gold out of Europe if the airports are closed?
Same way they did it hundreds of years ago - ships. Except this time with air conditioning, internet access for some swing trading, GPS, hotter women and security to buy off the trick or treaters that dress up like somali pirates on the way.
you mean get it in don't you?
wondering the same
..can volcanic ash by any chance contain gold?
DIAMONDS!!!!!
Damn, there goes our Summer Beach in Northern Ireland... was so looking foreward to that one... looks like it will be plan B again... Viaregio Italy.
I had been posting this. There was a volcano. Now the ash is blowing the camera. I will post it anyway, for maybe the wind will change direction. I am wondering if the whole thing exploded.
http://eldgos.mila.is/eyjafjallajokull-fra-thorolfsfelli/
Awesome link! Thanks.
Your welcome. I liked it better when I could see the volcano, but the infrared dust cloud sure is perty!
Here's the deal guys, and gals.
British Airways is set to go on strike this week.
Sooooo.
In order for GB not to lose clients to other airlines,
... a no fly zone is created.
I like your paranoid mind :)
An oppurtunity that shall not go to waste.
that's hilarious. rotten timing for the strikers. volcano steals thunder.
I think I just heard on the BBC that MAN is due to reopen shortly.
Can't Al Gore do something?
"so in about an hour, Heathrow and Getwick will be shut down"
Not to worry: no passengers will notice any decrease in service...
LOL
Speaking of Iceland, what's happened since the citizens overwhelmingly rejected IceSave? Have the politicians found a way to reject the will of the people and pay off the banks anyway?
Looks like it's time to dust off those old ocean liners.
Sure, they're slower than planes, but they make up for it with a guaranteed arrival date. And you get to travel in style!
so much for low cost airline...
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/05/16/2900631.htm?section=world
The earth is angry....
Right, it's like,
"Stop the oil spill or I blow up!"
Or, maybe, it likes bubbles and exploding things too and wants to join the party.
"Wee, more!"
Anybody else?
God is speaking. Hes saying , How dare you filthy Maggots destroy my water and Fishes.. How dare you worship the Golden Calf while destroying the lives of my unfortunate sons and daughters. God will show himself. Per The great George Carlin, RIP, "The planet will shake us off like a bad case of Fleas".
That's not the big news.
The big news is that Grimsvotn, Hekla and Askja are all getting ready to blow, and all three are bigger than Eyjafjallajokull.
I'm not even kidding:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7127706.ece
Eyjafjallajökull
Ok. Ey-jah-fjalla-oh-fuck-it!
Scroll down the link to hear a native speaker say the word. It's still jibberish:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/04/iceland_volcano_eyjafjallajo...
THE Icelandic eruption that has caused misery for air travellers could be part of a surge in volcanic activity that will affect the whole of Europe for decades, scientists have warned.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7127706.ece
Time to go long cruise lines? Who better to capitalize on the death of trans-atlantic air travel?
I'm thinking container ships full of fleeing humans and hidden gold bullion. More more appropriate for these times than a gauche cruise liner.
For those interested, since the beginning of the (FEC) Financial Economic Crisis some airlines are stressed out financially and pushing pilots to take unnecessary risks regarding carrying as minimal flight fuel as possible. But since the Volcano's in Europe i'm hearing from friends and former associates that the pressure on pilots to fly in what could be termed marginal ASH conditions has increased. See link for further info.
http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/415232-fired-refusal-fly-through-ash-...