Airspace reopens across Europe
Posted Apr 21, 2010 03:52:31 AM.
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It could take weeks to clear the backlog, but there have been cheers, tears and sighs of relief at European airports as airspace across Europe and the United Kingdom reopened to air traffic.
The only exception – an area over the northwest of Scotland which continues to be affected by a dense concentration of volcanic ash from Iceland.
London’s Heathrow airport, the busiest in all of Europe, is back in business though. The first commercial flight to land in London Tuesday was a British Airways flight from Vancouver.
95,000 flights were cancelled in the last week and airlines say it will take some time to get things back to normal.
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