Posts Tagged ‘airports’

Volcanic ash cloud shuts Scotland and Northern Ireland airports for second day

Airspace in Northern Ireland and Scotland is closed after the Icelandic ash cloud returns. ... read more >>

Iceland volcano: few flights arrive despite airspace reopening

Hundreds of flights remain cancelled at Britain’s airports despite a lifting of the UK airspace ban which has allowed some passengers to land at Heathrow for the first time in six days. The blanket ban, imposed following safety fears over a cloud of volcanic ash, was lifted from 10pm on Tuesday, with a British Airways flight from Vancouver among a handful to arrive at London Heathrow. ... read more >>

Iceland volcano: flight ban to remain in place across most of Britain

The flight ban covering most of Britain’s airspace will remain in place until tonight at the earliest, according to air traffic controllers. A small number of domestic flights have taken off after the volcanic ash cloud cleared from some parts of UK airspace, but the main London airports are now “unlikely to open today”. ... read more >>

Volcanic ash closes European airports

Reporting from Los Angeles and London. An immense plume of volcanic ash cast a silent pall over the skies of Northern Europe on Thursday, grounding air traffic across Britain, Scandinavia and elsewhere, halting flights to and from North America, stranding travelers and isolating much of the continent to an extent that was without precedent in recent memory. ... read more >>

All designated smoking areas in airports to go

Acting on reservations expressed by the Tobacco Control Cell, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) of Pakistan has instructed all airport managers to remove or dismantle the structures of all Designated Smoking Areas (DSAs) functioning within passenger lounges, and to strictly follow and implement laws that prohibit smoking in places of public use or work. ... read more >>

Smoke, no one cares

The only time when it is guaranteed that you will not find anyone smoking in our airports is during Ramadan daylight hours. ... read more >>