European air navigation agency: ash cloud will disrupt air traffic for at least another day
By APFriday, April 16, 2010
Eurocontrol: flights disrupted at least 1 more day
BRUSSELS — The European air navigation agency says air traffic disruptions from the volcanic ash cloud will last at least another day.
Eurocontrol says the cloud’s impact “will continue for at least the next 24 hours.”
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BERLIN (AP) — German authorities have halted flights to 11 of the nation’s 16 international airports, including Frankfurt and Duesseldorf, as an ash cloud from Iceland’s erupting volcano moves over Germany.
Germany’s air traffic controllers DFS says the airspace over much of northern and western Germany is closed Friday, and flight patterns have been so severely disrupted it is hard to say when things will get back to normal.
Traffic to airports in Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne was also stopped.
