The volcanic ash is back: Ireland...flights may be cancelled

doelani

We are due to fly from Belfast on Wednesday to London then on to Rome to meet a cruise. If we do not go we lose the lot as flights booked seperate to cruise so cruise company will not change date. Our insurance have already told us we would not be covered for ash as we asked the question 2 weeks ago.

So dilema is do we take a chance that our this will all be over tomorrow and everything will be ok for our flighst on Wednesday or we get boat tomorrow to Scotland and train down to London to get our flight on Wednesday to Rome. At the minute Belfast airport is saying " there may be delays" so who knows.

Extra day traveling and cost of approx £50 each or risk losing the lot........£2k.

dmg24

doelani wrote: »

We are due to fly from Belfast on Wednesday to London then on to Rome to meet a cruise. If we do not go we lose the lot as flights booked seperate to cruise so cruise company will not change date. Our insurance have already told us we would not be covered for ash as we asked the question 2 weeks ago.

So dilema is do we take a chance that our this will all be over tomorrow and everything will be ok for our flighst on Wednesday or we get boat tomorrow to Scotland and train down to London to get our flight on Wednesday to Rome. At the minute Belfast airport is saying " there may be delays" so who knows.

Extra day traveling and cost of approx £50 each or risk losing the lot........£2k.

That is a really difficult one. Maybe see what news the morning brings and go from there?

We have a friend coming back from Knock on Wednesday. Thankfully he has a car over there so will just have to drive himself back if everything shuts down (if the car makes it that far!).

doelani

dmg24 wrote: »

That is a really difficult one. Maybe see what news the morning brings and go from there?

We have a friend coming back from Knock on Wednesday. Thankfully he has a car over there so will just have to drive himself back if everything shuts down (if the car makes it that far!).

Well just announced Belfast city and Belfast International also closed as well as southern ireland airports so decission made, look like getting up in morning and going for boat ,

dmg24

doelani wrote: »

Well just announced Belfast city and Belfast International also closed as well as southern ireland airports so decission made, look like getting up in morning and going for boat ,

On a positive note (although I doubt it feels it at the moment), at least you know now, so you have time to make plans. Hopefully things will be sorted for your journey home. Safe journey.

doelani

dmg24 wrote: »

On a positive note (although I doubt it feels it at the moment), at least you know now, so you have time to make plans. Hopefully things will be sorted for your journey home. Safe journey.

Thanks, just trying now to make sense of times etc for getting from London to Gatwick.............scarey lol

jackieb

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photome

bagand96 wrote: »

I wouldn't worry about it. They'd probably have to be physical volcanic rocks up there to stop flying again.

The airlines cannot afford not to fly. They can't afford the lost revenue, they ca't afford to pay staff to stay at home, and above all they can't afford to acommodate half of Europe at their expense.

Remember, the ash didn't go away last time, the tolerance rules were just re-written.

What were you saying?

They also cannot afford to kill anyone when it could be avoided!

teamcullen

The airports are reopening at 1pm. Hopefully this will be a short lived ban!

All the updates are on the Irish Aviation website iaa.ie

teamcullen

Breaking news that Scotland and Northern Ireland airports are closed from 7am tomorrow.

On both Sky News and BBC News.

TonyMMM

This problem isn't going to go away until the volcano stops errupting - which could be months .... in the meantime we are all going to have to realise that any air travel in and out of the UK is going to be at a (small) risk of cancellation at short notice.