Iceland's volcanic ash affects huge European airline industry to lay off unpaid

Xinhua Beijing, April 18, the ash cloud from Iceland is still diffuse over Europe and gradually expand, from Russia to the United Kingdom, and even Italy are visible traces, European air traffic 17th even worse than a few days ago, millions of of passengers affected. According to the Taiwan Times, the Icelandic Meteorological Bureau estimates that this will last two days, up to five days.　　Scandinavian Airlines has warned that it will temporarily lay off 2,500 people if it is grounded by 19th.　　Europe's major airlines are reluctant to disclose the losses suffered, but aviation stocks have gone down, only the state-run Finnish airlines said the grounding caused the company a daily loss of 2 million euros, if two weeks after the normal operation, will be suspended pay staff. In northern Europe, Denmark and Finland closed their airspace for three consecutive days and were not open until Sunday, while Norway and Sweden had opened part of their airspace to the north, but south-central airspace remained closed at least until noon on 18th.　　Iceland alone is not affected, the Icelandic Civil Aviation Authority said that the Icelandic airport from the ash cloud to move the path is very far, so can be as usual take-off and landing. The volcanic ash continues to suffer losses in the airline industry, with the worst impact on Western Europe and Central Europe. France has announced that more than 20 airports in the north will be closed at least until the morning of 19th. Britain and Germany decided that most flights would continue to fly at least until the early hours of 18th. Ireland, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland have also decided that 17th will still be full or largely no-fly, and may continue to carry out.　　London Heaslop, Paris Charles de Gaulle and Frankfurt, Germany, the three major European airports, all closed. As the ash cloud slowly moves east and south, eastern and southern European countries are also increasingly affected, with Belarus declaring its airspace closed 17th and Ukraine's 16th decision to close its capital Kiev and three other airports. Italy has closed its northern airspace, with Milan and Venice airports temporarily closed.　　Europe in Saturday only 5,000 flights and landing, less than the usual 22,000 flights one-fourth. Millions of travellers are blocked by the head of State. The collapse of air traffic caused by the eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano has affected millions of of travellers, and even some national leaders have been trapped. The German Chancellor Angela Merkel was stranded in Prague, the Czech capital, after her visit to the United States ended with the departure of Berlin airport from Lisbon.　　To this end, Poland has been considered to be scheduled 18th to postpone the funeral of President Kaczynski, let us President Barack Obama and other leaders to participate, but a presidential staff said that will continue as scheduled. Even passengers outside Europe were Chille, almost all flights to Europe were cancelled across Asia, with large numbers of passengers stranded in intends at Asian airports and airlines busy arranging accommodation for travellers.　　Singapore is Asia's leading aviation hub to Europe, the original 17th from Changi Airport flights to Europe to cancel all, the local hotel full. The Icelandic Meteorological Bureau said 17th, the Eyjafjallajokull volcano continued to spray ash, the height of 6,000 meters to 7,000 meters, high-altitude winds still facing east and south-east, the forecast of this situation will last for at least two daysAnd may even be dragged to Wednesday. Icelandic geologist Gumansen said the eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in the early morning of 16th to 17th was quite strong and showed no signs of abating. Another geologist said the activity could last for months, erupt for a few days, take a few weeks off, and then erupt. The continued eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano, which caused the melting of glaciers around the world, forced the Icelandic authorities to evacuate two times in 48 hours, leaving some 700 people out of the area altogether.