Just flatten Iceland & the volcano with nukes (they deserve it after all the cash they stole from the UK), and in the mean time put Constellations back on the trans-Atlantic flights – that’ll sort it! 😀

Andy

Airspace isn’t all shut down – plenty of reports of light aircraft, even King Airs
and the likes, wizzing around VFR including in controlled airspace and quite enjoying the lack of other traffic clogging things up. I think the “airspace all shut” thing is just a media thing designed to give the arm-chair passengers some understanding of the situation – if they said “aeroplanes may still fly visually…” then some laymen would start to ask why airlines can’t do that. The NOTAMS were fairly specific – no IFR clearances – which if you think about it is logical because IFR implies not being visual at all times, which in turn means that an aircraft could be flown into ash with the crew unawares. VFR on the other hand requires aircraft to be visual all times, which hopefully means most of them will avoid big black clouds if they encounter any!

Andy

I guess all this no-flying will make the eco-mentalists happy – mind you, they’ll probably find a reason to whinge about volcanic ash instead! :diablo:

Andy

Seems like nothing much will be moving until 1300local, at least:

Q) EGXX/QAFXX/IV/NBO/E/000/999/5441N00220W999
B) FROM: 10/04/15 07:25C) TO: 10/04/15 11:59
E) A VOLCANIC ASH CLOUD, ORIGINATING IN ICELAND, IS HAVING A
MAJOR IMPACT AFFECTING UK AIRSPACE. UK AREA AFFECTED:
610000N 0100000W 610000N 0000000W 600000N 0000000W
570000N 0050000E 550000N 0050000E 530409N 0031619W
521700N 0004400W 512200N 0041300W 521000N 0062900W
535605N 0053533W 563400N 0040700W 591000N 0052400W
603243N 0100000W 610000N 0100000W SFC/UNL
OPR SHOULD REFER TO VA ADVISORY 20100415/0600 FOR FURTHER INFO.
IN ACCORDANCE WITH ICAO VOLCANIC ASH CONTINGENCY PLAN, NO IFR
CLEARANCE WILL BE ISSUED FOR PENETRATION OF THE FORECAST
CONTAMINATED AREA THAT LIES WITHIN UK AIRSPACE

Blummin’ Iceland – first they wreck our banking system, now they wreck our Air Traffic system… I think its about time we sent in the boys to nuke the place and have done with it! 😉

Andy

Shouldn’t this be in the military forum – its a military aircraft?

Andy

Long haul so far this year I’ve done:

UA LHR-LAX-LHR (Jan)
SQ LHR-SIN-LHR (Feb)
UA LHR-SFO-LHR (Mar)

Based on my experience on these six flights, I’d take UA crews over the SQ crews if I had a choice. No doubt the SQ crews are efficient if its an at-seat service you want, but its all rather clinical. On the other hand, if you bother to get up and talk to the UA crews when you need something (as opposed to just sit in the seat and expect them to be waiters/waitresses), the UA crews have all been excellent and friendly.

Andy

PPrune says that One is going to carslile and rumours of one as peter mentioned to cosford via shawbury

so that makes

1) Manchester
2) Newark (possible)
3) Brunty
4) Elvington
5) Carlisle
6) Cosford (Maybe)

R1 XW664 is tentatively pencilled in for East Midlands Aeropark, but not until next year

The classic “airline” movies have already been mentioned…

A few others worthy of consideration: