Epress.am News from Armenia
No flights have been delayed at Yerevan’s Zvarnots International Airport as a result of the volcanic ash cloud covering parts of Europe.
“We are operational. If flights from international airlines arrive to Zvartnots, we’re ready to serve them. Currently closed is London’s Heathrow airport, from where we only have one flight,” Armenia International Airport CJSC spokesperson Gevorg Abrahamyan told RFE/RL’s Armenian service.
Earlier, the Brussels-based Eurocontrol had announced that due to an enormous ash cloud from the eruption of the Grimsvoetn volacano in Iceland, about 500 European flights might be cancelled, 252 of which have already been delayed. Parts of the ash cloud already covers Scotland, Northern Ireland and Scandinavia and continues to spread, though it’s difficult to say exactly how far it will go.
Head of operations at Eurocontrol Brian Flynn warned that the ash cloud “will continue possibly southwards to France and Spain but hard to say now because (weather) forecasts are not precise for the end of the week.”
He said that by the end of the day, the cloud “will cover southern parts of Scandinavia, Denmark and northern parts of Germany possibly,” AFP reports.
This raised the prospect of a major travel disruption across Europe due to Icelandic volcanic eruption for the second time in little over a year.