Close to Iceland airport due to volcanic ash cloud
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Iceland's main Reykjavik-Keflavik airport will close from 1230 IST today awaiting the end of the day due to the volcanic ash cloud, airport official have said.
"The airport is due to close at 0700 GMT tomorrow morning and will wait closed till midnight, we have brought departure forward so that passengers can leave before the closure," a spokesman for Iceland's major airport told AFP.
The air company Icelandair said the airport be supposed to reopen tomorrow. After more than a few days of disruption in Europe's skies, air travel return to normal yesterday, according to the European authority, Eurocontrol.
Bjorn Oddsson, a geologist and geophysicist at the University of Iceland's Institute of Earth Sciences supposed there were no indications that the eruption of the volcano Eyjafjoell, ongoing since April 14, was coming to an end.
"The pulse movement continues, it increases for about 3 hours, then decrease for another three," he said, adding that "it's nothing to worry about."
"The airport is due to close at 0700 GMT tomorrow morning and will wait closed till midnight, we have brought departure forward so that passengers can leave before the closure," a spokesman for Iceland's major airport told AFP.
The air company Icelandair said the airport be supposed to reopen tomorrow. After more than a few days of disruption in Europe's skies, air travel return to normal yesterday, according to the European authority, Eurocontrol.
Bjorn Oddsson, a geologist and geophysicist at the University of Iceland's Institute of Earth Sciences supposed there were no indications that the eruption of the volcano Eyjafjoell, ongoing since April 14, was coming to an end.
"The pulse movement continues, it increases for about 3 hours, then decrease for another three," he said, adding that "it's nothing to worry about."
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