BRUSSELS, Belgium - The Icelandic volcano reminded the world once again of its power to disrupt travel - coughing out a spreading cloud of ash that delayed or canceled hundreds of flights between Europe and North America on Saturday.
The prospects for Sunday flights remained grim, with no improvement in sight for transatlantic passengers, and with a plume of low-altitude ash continuing to float eastward over Spain and southern France.
Flights had to be rerouted north over Greenland or south around Spain to avoid the 1,200-mile-long cloud.
About 600 airliners cross the ocean every day. About 40 percent were rerouted southward; the rest skirted Iceland from the north, according to Eurocontrol, the air-traffic management agency based in Brussels.
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Hey, volcano: enough!
This better not mess up my flight to Amsterdam a week from Monday!
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