On May 10th I am planning on traveling to Dubai for business/vacation visit with my school. Our plane will be departing from Miami to Heathrow Airport and then onward to Dubai International.
Hopefully by then the Ash over Europe will be cleared otherwise I am not sure what we are going to do. They are estimating that British Airlines are losing over a million dollars a day after cancelling thousands of flights. The volcano ash cannot be seen on radar and is as course as sand which instantly can seize jet engines.
They are not citing that some planes have been doing some test flights without passengers and have had no problems. According to the WSJ, not one weather balloon has been sent up to test the conditions. "NATS said Sunday that the closure of U.K. airspace would continue through 0600 GMT Monday."
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Hopefully some nice weather will roll through and push the ash out before any real harm to my plans, to the airlines and to the environment is done
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