Cuando Me Enamoro - The ash cloud is reportedly seven miles wide. As depicted, the cloud is in the earth’s atmosphere. Normally a volcanic eruptions won’t affect international flight travel. But the Boston Channel reports that this type of ash cloud is so significant it could affect your in fight travel.
It could turn off the engines! Reportedly when an ash cloud reaches these heights, and impacts a commercial jet’s engines, it can cause the engines to stall … or just turn the engines off completely.
Local travel agents are today scanning running reports on all weekend departures and then updating clients booked to fly into Europe.
"We will have a better picture of how the situation will affect Tasmanian travellers in 72 hours or so," Nathan Darke from Andrew Jones Travel said yesterday.
"We would have about 40 clients across our offices booked to fly overseas but not all are destined for Europe.
"Some people are stuck in Asia as airlines wait for the situation to improve at European airports.
"There are no harrowing tales to tell at this stage. But we are getting a lot of calls from people who are booked to head off next week."
Mr Darke said common sense was still prevailing as the travel industry waited to see how long it took for the ash cloud to clear.
"It is a one-off kind of situation that has nothing to do with human error and so far people are calm," he said.
"Airlines today are good at getting rid of backlogs and everything should be back to normal in a couple of days."
But that depends on whether the Eyjafjallajokull volcano continues to erupt.
It could turn off the engines! Reportedly when an ash cloud reaches these heights, and impacts a commercial jet’s engines, it can cause the engines to stall … or just turn the engines off completely.
Local travel agents are today scanning running reports on all weekend departures and then updating clients booked to fly into Europe.
"We will have a better picture of how the situation will affect Tasmanian travellers in 72 hours or so," Nathan Darke from Andrew Jones Travel said yesterday.
"We would have about 40 clients across our offices booked to fly overseas but not all are destined for Europe.
"Some people are stuck in Asia as airlines wait for the situation to improve at European airports.
"There are no harrowing tales to tell at this stage. But we are getting a lot of calls from people who are booked to head off next week."
Mr Darke said common sense was still prevailing as the travel industry waited to see how long it took for the ash cloud to clear.
"It is a one-off kind of situation that has nothing to do with human error and so far people are calm," he said.
"Airlines today are good at getting rid of backlogs and everything should be back to normal in a couple of days."
But that depends on whether the Eyjafjallajokull volcano continues to erupt.
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