Factbox: Airports and airspace bankrupt by ash cloud

FULL: www.xard.org The European air find office Eurocontrol very it required nearly 5000 flyings in European airspace on Saturday, against 22000 commonly. This equated with 10400 flights of steps against a pattern 28000 on Friday it identical, adjusting figures from an later program line. The means said no landings or parodies were viable for civilian aircraft in near of northern and important Europe, but flights of stairs were learning place in southern Europe, letting in Spain, the southern Balkans, southern Italy, Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey. "Forecasts intimate that the swarm of volcanic ash tree will persist and that the impact will preserve for at least the future 24 hours," the agency said in a financial statement older in the day. The office identical that of the 300 transatlantic flights of steps that left usually arrive in Europe on a Saturday, only 73 flights of steps come in the morning, when about are scheduled to land. It very that in many another of the countries affected, upper airspace had turn available, but it was difficult to entree this as in almost cases surrounding countries were impure by the ash cloud.



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