Volcanic Dust Cancel 50 Flights Asia-Europe

More than 50 flights from Asia and Europe are canceled today, consequently neglected thousands of prospective passengers at several airports of the world. This condition occurred because of volcanic ash from the volcano Eyjafjallajökull, in Iceland led to the sky in Europe closed.
Japan Airlines canceled nine flights to and from Europe, including the trip from Narita International Airport to Paris, Amsterdam, London and Frankfurt. Approximately 2300 passenger was forced to cancel their trips to major cities in Europe. Meanwhile, All Nippon Airways canceled six flights to Europe and caused 1.582 passengers abandoned.
While in Seoul, South Korea, 12 scheduled flights were canceled and two flights were en route to Europe were ordered to return to Seoul. Singapore Airlines also canceled their flights to Europe seven due to the volcanic ash. Thus the Associated Press reported on Friday (16/4/2010).
France during the last 24 hours they had closed the airport and the UK have canceled their non-emergency flights. Meanwhile, Irish, Danish, Norway, Finland and Belgium have made a similar move by France. Contracting authorities also had canceled 15 flights scheduled flights to and from Europe.
While the 1700 Qantas airline passengers from the five scheduled flights to Europe, reportedly trapped in Asia since today. Approximately one thousand were stuck in Singapore and another 350 trapped in Hong Kong and Bangkok. Qantas has also canceled their flights to Europe.
Volcanic dust which continues to spread widely in Northern Europe region since Thursday, April 15, causing disruption largest airline since the incident of terrorism in 2001 ago. International aviation regulatory authorities themselves are still not sure when the sky conditions in Europe could be considered safe again after this volcanic dust.
The volcanic ash is causing severe disruption to reduce the effect of extremely low visibility and the ability to destroy an aircraft engine.