carlo

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As above everyone i speak to has different storys to tell whats yours do you think it will be back to normal?

PeterD

So long as your heading to haggerston or something I reckon youll be fine

Surely 3 weeks should be enough eh???

Brian ST-2

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For your sake Carlo, fingers crossed pal

Depends on how long it takes to clear any backlog of 'returning flights' etc, so I'd say providing the wind changes, or the damn smoker stops chucking the crap out, you should be ok by then.

But then, we're dealing with nature here so no guarantees.........

carlo

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Fucking crap aint it i head this morning that some insurance company's arent refunding the money for the holiday as well because its a act of god thats all i need.

R4N SS

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my uncle has been stuck with us since Friday

backlog around heathrow will take approx a week to clear

carlo

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On the radio agin flights are grounded till 1 oclock in the morning but i bet when 1 comes it will be moved again

R4N SS

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you are probably looking at wednesday to be honest

john

I've been refunded on flights so fingers crossed if you don't get the same for you also.

XRdodgybird

Will probably depend on the airline. My relatives are stuck in Majorca waiting to go home to Germany and Air Berlin have told him he will have to pay for new flights home!

RWD_cossie_wil

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How can it be an act of god when it/he does not exist?... The last time this volcano erupted it lasted for 2.5 years!!!!!

john

Is a shame, easyjet offered me the full refund or change onto another flight on the same route within thirty days. They've been really good and was pleasantly surprised.

carlo

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good point will i will say that when i try put a claim in

john

BA sent one of their planes up yesterday out over the atlantic to see if any problems occured.

carlo

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Think its thomas cook were going with its for the missus birthday she is in total denial i have tried to pre warn her that it might not happen!

Lambchop

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I hadnt really thought too much about the impact of this but im due back to congo a week on tue so might get extra time home

carlo

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One of my mates is stuck off shore as well & i thought helicopters were low flying & would be well out the way

RWD_cossie_wil

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Im in the RAF mate, I have never seen RAF Lyneham so quiet in ten years... Even low flying is dodgy as they have found ash particles at 800 feet in some places. The thing is with flying is safty is absolutly paramount, and being an engineer I have seen first hand the damage hard dust particles can do to an engine and other parts, better safe than sorry....

If you are bored have a look for the 1982 British Airways 747 that flew through an ash cloud in Indonesia, lost all four engines in a few mins, but managed to restart after gliding 20,000ft down... Was on aircraft investigation, the episode is on YouTube in ten minute sections, well worth a watch.

Lambchop

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Depends where he is. If he's up off shetland then he needs a plane to shetland first

They were flying choppers at weekend but think they are grounded again.

BRAMMER

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Is that the one that blasted the screens if so i saw that one, BA are doing tests flights over the Atlantic in a 747 so they will have the results from the filters at some point

dojj

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7am tomorrow folks

Big G

They will be flying tomorrow, Think its 6am in McScotland, Teeside is 7am and Manchester is 9am,
Dunno how they gonna work it with back-log and currents, but I can see some overtime getting walloped in.

PS - I bet the BA staff say fuck all about a strike for at least a month while they got the chance of a big earn