NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: 
Fabulous picture. Mad as hatters.
 
Apparently, the trick is to keep looking up and if a chunk of ejecta is moving across the sky, you're OK. If it appears to be stationary, you move. Quickly.

ok, before I sign off, I just have to bump this photo again for its sheer awesomeness.

 geordiezimmerman wrote: 
Thanks!

 rosedraws wrote: 
It's like the other airports affected, sometime open, sometimes closed. It all depends on where the ash cloud is and which way the wind is blowing. Lucking this time of the year the winds blow in from the south meaning the ash cloud disappears northwards and away from most airspace. There is still some disruption, namely Spain last week and some Irish flights but generally things have improved with little delay in flights. 5 weeks time we will supposed to be in the height of summer here meaning those southerly winds are much more frequest so therefore increasing your chances of travel. Good luck.

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: 
W   O   W

some very classy filmwork on the eruption.

 hippiechick wrote: 
The only trouble with this statement is that the last eruption bears virtually no correlation to the current one (true for most volcanoes except those that go off like clockwork).

Apart from a brief hiatus between the Fimmvorduhals vent closing and the crater vent opening, it has been erupting non-stop for three months now and there is no sign of it stopping yet.
It might stop tomorrow, it might go on for another 2000 years.

 rosedraws wrote: 
I think I read that the last time this happened, it was on and off for 30 months.

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: 
Yeah.  Amsterdam via Reykjavik.  We actually booked the trip the day the volcano started.  We were like, "hey, did you hear about the volcano?" "yeah, that's really something, eh?"    I figured it was something that happened there all the time, like in Hawaii.

It's good to know the airport's at least sometimes open.  Hope eternal springing and all that,

 rosedraws wrote: 
Reykjavik has been open, yes, and closed, and open

five weeks? no need to worry yet. We are flying down to Italy next Saturday (I hope) otherwise we have really long car trip in front of us.
Are you stopping over in Reykjavik?

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: 
Has Reykjavik been open for flights at all?

I'm fretting about our flight 5 weeks from now... 

 rosedraws wrote: 
France is always quiet.. It might just be a hole in the network.

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: 
WOW that is AMAZING!!

Not what I'm looking for, but it is wayyyyy cool.

Looks awfully quiet over France right now..
 

 rosedraws wrote: 
Hi Rose, I know what you mean. There isn't anything quite perfect but this is pretty good for flight tracking and showing airports

make sure you have the  right browser .. it didn't work for me on IE but was fine with firefox

 oldslabsides wrote: 
they're scientists. The whole place is strictly off limits.

Maybe it was just a calculated risk?

can anyone point me to a website that shows live updates of which airports have ash delays?  I'd love to see a map of it.  I can't seem to find what I'm looking for. 

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: 
they're loony.

spot the people in this pic.
and this is what they saw

 hobiejoe wrote: Those people in Iceland are responsible for this!
 I demand they put a catalytic converter on that gross polluter!