17 May 2010

Dutch Airport Closures May 17

Ash clouds from the Iceland volcano have forced the closure of Schiphol Amsterdam and Rotterdam airport from 6:00 am (0400 GMT) to 2:00 pm Monday, the Dutch aviation officials have announced at the Schiphol Airport website... Dutch airport closures and updates available -here-

Dutch Airport Closures May 17
Holland has joined the club with German airports and UK airports closing-down due to the volcanic plume eminating from Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull  volcano.

Dutch airports were of course closed along with much of European airspace in April following the eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjoell volcano for almost a week, the largest shutdown of the continent's airspace in half a century... 



A real-time tracking map of airport closures can be seen -here-