Nice to see you made use of your miles. You did well getting an award seat at short notice. A good report, and the winglets look cool.

Looks like we share a love of eating junk food while on the road!! Burger King/McDonalds = flying fuel.

The eruptions did seem to lessen in force towards the blanket ban being lifted, so the reduced amount of ash in the air was probably deemed safe to fly through? I did think at the time though that no real explanation was given to the sudden lifting of the ban. It all seemed a bit like this “massive global crisis” just went away all of a sudden.

I fully agree with the grounding of aircraft in these situations and would never “second guess” the pros in their chosen field, but i did start to wonder if there was a certain amount “back pedalling”. I know safety would never be compromised, but if the situation was marginal and the pressure was on to get people moving again.

I see Air Crash Investigation is covering the BA incident again on TV this evening. I love TV. First we see the media keep hinting at the authorities being over cautious for locking airspace down, then as soon as airspace opens again they put a show on to put the SH**S up people who could be flying in the next day or so.

This puts things into perspective a little, doesn’t it?

Mother Nature gives us a fleeting glimpse of her fangs, and all we humans can do is stay out of the way until she calms down again.

She’s a stubborn old gal grey that’s for sure, can’t help but love her though. (yes I have been drinking)

Suppose it was only a matter of time before this turned into an argument about why flights are grounded, so i will join in 😀

EGPH you are so far off the mark with your statements its untrue. Imagine for a second being the guy (not that it happens that way) who decided, yea sod it lets open the airspace again. All this fuss about a little cloud in the North. Then, a few planes start falling out of the sky because YOU thought all this was a load of BO**OX. Try living with that?

Looks like last few aircraft leaving U.K airspace. Just been following a CO 752 depart Bristol and head South out into the English Channel en-route Newark. Some interesting routings.

Sounds like its expected to get worse depending on what you read!!! Could be carnage if LHR becomes affected. Maybe a very interesting day ahead.

Love that SQ A380 head on shot. I quite like the borders.