Iceland Volcano
Posted by: FlipTop on 15 April 2010
Does the team think that the Icelantic volcano erruption is retribution for Gordon Brown's use of the UK anti-terrorist legislation to freeze Icelantic assets in the UK following the Icelantic banking collapse ?
Posted on: 18 April 2010 by Don Atkinson
From the NATS website
NATS
Purpose
NATS provides air traffic services in UK and Oceanic air space and at 15 major UK airports and Gibraltar, as well as related operational, consultancy and training services in Europe and beyond.
Legal Status and Ownership
NATS Holdings Ltd is the holding company for NATS Group. It owns NATS Ltd, which in turn owns two operating subsidiaries: NATS (En-Route) plc (NERL) and NATS (Services) Ltd (NSL). The Airline Group Ltd, a consortium of seven airlines, has the majority of voting rights and 41.9% of the shares of NATS Holdings Ltd. The Secretary of State for Transport owns 48.9%, BAA plc 4.2%; and NATS Employee Sharetrust Ltd 5%.
Looks like I was partially correct.
Cheers
Don
Posted on: 18 April 2010 by Jono 13
All flights back on by Tuesday I reckon.
Jono
Posted on: 18 April 2010 by MilesSmiles
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Originally posted by MilesSmiles:
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Originally posted by Jono 13:
All flights back on by Tuesday I reckon.
Jono
Hope so, am flying next weekend and would like the backlog to start clearing by then.
Posted on: 19 April 2010 by Stephen Tate
I wonder how many travel insurance companies are gonig to use the 'Act of God' get out clause.
Posted on: 19 April 2010 by Roy T
Posted on: 19 April 2010 by winkyincanada
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Originally posted by Stephen Tate:
I wonder how many travel insurance companies are gonig to use the 'Act of God' get out clause.
As many as think they can get away with it. If you were incentivised to minimise payments to policy-holders, you'd do the same.
Posted on: 19 April 2010 by MilesSmiles
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Originally posted by Roy T:
... just watching it now on Fiver.
Posted on: 20 April 2010 by Derek Wright
Flight KLM13 from Schiphol tp Zenderij has just flown over to the north of here at 33050 feet at 437 knots.
Posted on: 20 April 2010 by Bob McC
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Originally posted by MilesSmiles:
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Originally posted by MilesSmiles:
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Originally posted by Jono 13:
All flights back on by Tuesday I reckon.
Jono
Hope so, am flying next weekend and would like the backlog to start clearing by then.
scheduled flights won't be affected when they get flying again. People stranded will be waiting ages, they have no priority.
Posted on: 20 April 2010 by tonym
Life is starting to return to normal for the people in Norfolk for the first time in nearly a century now that regular sightings of "the big scary metal dragons in the sky" have suddenly stopped.
Apologies to certain forum members...
Posted on: 20 April 2010 by Roy T
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Originally posted by tonym:
Life is starting to return to normal for the people in Norfolk for the first time in nearly a century now that regular sightings of "the big scary metal dragons in the sky" have suddenly stopped.
Apologies to certain forum members...
NFN
Posted on: 20 April 2010 by SC
to both of you !
Posted on: 20 April 2010 by JamieWednesday
So volcanic eruptions in Iceland = ash cloud over UK = no flights through our airspace. Do any of these = the nice warm sunny spring we're having all of a sudden? I think we should be told.
BTW, this is useful...
know your rightsPosted on: 20 April 2010 by Bob McC
warm?
It's freezing in Cheshire!
Posted on: 20 April 2010 by JamieWednesday
...but sunny. Apparently...
Posted on: 21 April 2010 by DenisA
An amazing set of lightning shots from the volcano
here.
Posted on: 21 April 2010 by Chillkram
Just got back in the early hours of yesterday morning after a 3 day trek from Rome. We were supposed to fly back Saturday night but as the flight was cancelled, decided upon local advise to drive the hire car we had to Milan station where we were told we had much more chance of getting a train to France. We had considered driving to Calais but were told it could be a 600 euro penalty, but they couldn't be sure as the computers were down.
Milan station was absolutely chaotic and we were told there were no trains until Thursday. We drove for 4 hours before finally finding a hotel that had rooms at 2.00am.
Sunday morning we woke up and decided to drive to Calais across Switzerland and France. Switzerland was very slow because of high traffic and closed tunnels so we finally got to Calais at 4.00pm on Monday. We got the ferry across to Dover and then the train to London, eventually getting in at just after midnight on Tuesday morning.
At Calais we met people from all over Europe including one group of 4 guys who had spent 8k on a taxi from Hungary!
Still not sure how much the penalty will bne for dropping the car at Calais but even at 600 euros it will ne a minimum 2k cost for the journey home.
Anyway, glad to be back and feeling lucky as there are people still stranded over there, sleeping rough in stations and airports.
Don't want to see Milan again in a hurry though!
Mark
Posted on: 21 April 2010 by JamieWednesday
'kinell
Posted on: 21 April 2010 by Chillkram
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Originally posted by JamieWednesday:
'kinell
I won't even tell you about the kerb crawling in Milan at 1.00am with the whole family in the car!
Oh, I just did!
Posted on: 21 April 2010 by tonym
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Originally posted by Chillkram:
I won't even tell you about the kerb crawling in Milan at 1.00am with the whole family in the car!
Old habits die hard with you Mark. Still, I'm a bit shocked, with the family in the car & all...
Glad to know you got back OK after your adventure.
Posted on: 21 April 2010 by fixedwheel
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I won't even tell you about the kerb crawling in Milan at 1.00am with the whole family in the car!
That's not an acceptable method to recoup the 600 euros.... They'd be lucky to get 20 euros a time for you, you'd be too exhausted to drive!
One of my mates is a taxi driver, he had a job yesterday, take 2 peeps over to Calais, and collect 1 peep from Lille. Double bubble.
John
Posted on: 22 April 2010 by Chillkram
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Originally posted by tonym:
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Originally posted by Chillkram:
I won't even tell you about the kerb crawling in Milan at 1.00am with the whole family in the car!
Old habits die hard with you Mark. Still, I'm a bit shocked, with the family in the car & all...
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It was whilst driving around for 4 hours looking for a hotel that had rooms free. We would see a hotel sign from the main road and pull over to the side driving slowly trying to figure out how to get to them. On one occasion these legs suddenly appeared out of the shadows, walked over to the car and the owner peered in.
I don't know who was more shocked!
Posted on: 24 April 2010 by lutyens
Posted on: 30 April 2010 by mudwolf
Yes Frank, be very afraid if the next one blows.
My sister from Oregon has a house trade in June with a British couple, I'm cautioning her and both parties can back out still. She isn't the most rational or have the money for the 3 of them to get home if travel gets all locked up.
Posted on: 15 May 2010 by DenisA
