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Main developments:
- Irish airspace closed until at least 5am tomorrow
- Parts of UK airspace to open at 7am tomorrow
- Airlines run test flights to gauge dust levels
- Ryanair cancels all Irish/UK flights until 1pm Wednesday
- Dept of Foreign Affairs helpline: (00353) 1-408-2999
22.15 British air traffic control Nats has thrown doubt over the reopening of UK airspace tomorrow. It said tonight in a statement: ‘The volcano eruption in Iceland has strengthened and a new ash cloud is spreading south and east towards the UK.
‘Latest information from the Met Office shows that the situation is worsening in some areas.
‘Based on this information, the situation for Northern Irish airports for the morning is uncertain, due to the new ash cloud.
'The latest information shows that Scottish airports should be available from 7am and more airspace over England may become available from 1pm, although not as far south as the main London airports.'
22.11 Germany's DFS air safety agency extended by 12 hours to 1200 GMT tomorrow the shutdown of its airspace because of the volcanic ash but said airlines could operate some flights with special permission.
The agency had earlier said the shutdown would end at 0000 GMT.
In line with special procedures, pilots would fly visually rather than relying on instruments, and would be under the direction of air traffic controllers until German airspace was completely reopened.
Such procedures allowed Lufthansa to announce a resumption of long-haul flights
22.00 A "new ash cloud" is spreading towards the UK but some airspace over Britain should be open tomorrow, air traffic control company Nats has said.
21.30 Air France is to start resuming suspended flights tomorrow. The French carrier will operate a full slate of long-haul flights from Paris airports Charles de Gaulle and Orly tomorrow, and overnight flights leaving for Paris tonight will reach the French capital tomorrow though with some delays.
21.17 German carrier Lufthansa has announced a resumption of long-haul flights. The carrier said it was taking advantage of special permission from Germany's aviation authorities.
21.05 Three flights carrying passengers have left Amsterdam-Schiphol airport tonight for Shanghai, Dubai and New York.
20.32 All Danish airports will remain closed until at least 1200 tomorrow, however Denmark has lowered the permitted overflight altitude to under 20,000ft.
19.49 Italy will reopen all its airspace from 0600 GMT tomorrow. Northern Italian airports have been closed since Friday.
19.31 Romania has fully reopened its airspace following a closure due to the volcanic ash cloud.
19.03 Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary has welcomed the planned resumption of flights in Europe, but cautioned that the situation could change by the hour.
Mr O'Leary, who has cancelled all Ryanair flights in northern Europe and the Baltic states until 1.00pm on Wednesday, said the crisis had shown the need for better information from safety authorities.
‘Clearly all the airlines want to get back flying but we have to be cautious, this thing could change on an hour-to-hour basis,’ he said.
18.58 Bulgaria has reopened its airspace for flights going to and coming from countries in south Europe and Asia.
Canadian officials have cancelled nine flights out of Saint John's, Newfoundland, the first sign of disrupted to domestic flights in North America.
18.25 Aer Lingus has confirmed that all flights from Dublin, Cork and Belfast to Spain, Portugal and Italy with a scheduled departure time up to 13:00 will operate as scheduled tomorrow, Tuesday 20 April.
Aer Lingus aims to operate the majority of its European schedule post 13:00. The status of flights post 13:00 will be confirmed on aerlingus.com on Tuesday morning.
Transatlantic
Aer Lingus will operate its full transatlantic schedule between Ireland and the US on Tuesday 20 April.
London
All flights from Dublin, Cork, Knock, Shannon and Belfast to London Heathrow and Gatwick with a scheduled departure time up to 13:00, Tuesday 20 April, have been cancelled. Operations on these services post 13:00 remain under review, however we hope to operate the majority of the schedule between Ireland and London for the remainder of the day. The status of flights post 13:00 will be confirmed on aerlingus.com on Tuesday morning.
Aer Lingus Regional
Aer Lingus Regional flights from Dublin and Cork will operate as scheduled tomorrow with the exception of flights to and from Cardiff.
17.52 Minister for Transport Noel Dempsey has said EU Transport Ministers have agreed that planes will be allowed to fly if it is considered safe for them to do so.
He said the Irish Aviation Authority will make a decision on when Irish airspace will open again.
17.40 European Union transport ministers have agreed to gradually ease restrictions in place in European airspace.
A source at the Spanish presidency of the EU said an area immediately around the volcano would remain closed and that ministers had proposed the ‘progressive and coordinated’ opening of airspace in a second zone further from the volcano.
17:19 Air corridors to Paris will open up from 7am Irish time tomorrow to enable airlines to bring back 'the greatest number of passengers possible from abroad.'
17:17 The Irish Ferries Contact Centre at 0818 300 400 is being kept open for telephone reservations until 21:00 tonight
17:07 A statement on the Irish Aviation Authority’s website says that the current meeting of EU transport ministers is expected to approve an interim, European-wide response to the airspace restrictions arising from the volcanic ash cloud.
The response will ease restrictions, and this will facilitate the commencement of limited operations from 5am tomorrow, based on ash proliferation assessments.
IAA expects to reinstate some air traffic services on a phased basis from this time. It stressed that this is not a return to full service.
16:54 Reports emerging from a videoconference of EU transport ministers say that officials are working on an agreement to reduce the size of the European no-fly zone.
'There seems to be consensus around creating new zones with a smaller no-fly zone near to the volcano. A second zone would include safety restrictions and checks for aircraft,' an envoy told Reuters.
16:52 Belgian authorities will begin reopening the country's air space on Tuesday morning.
16:34 British air traffic control company Nats will lift restrictions for Northern Ireland, Scotland and part of northern England from 7am tomorrow.
16:28 Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano is emitting between 150,000 and 300,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) per day, a figure placing it in the same emissions league as a small-to-medium European economy, experts said this afternoon.
16:26 Bus Éireann says two additional coaches will run from Cork to London (via Rosslare) tomorrow in addition to the normal Tuesday coach. So far, two of those are fully booked up.
16:20 The Bedroom Community Whale Watching Tour at the National Concert Hall on 21 April has been cancelled.
Eight of the 14 member touring party have been stranded in either New York or Reykjavik.
16:15 Celtic Horizon Tours is organising a temporary overnight coach service to Birmingham and London in conjunction with Irish Ferries.
The overnight coach and ferry service will run direct from Terminal 1 in North Wall, Dublin at 19:00 to both Birmingham (Birmingham Airport) & London (Kilburn Tube station).
The fare from Dublin to Birmingham Airport is €70 one way while the Dublin to London service costs €80.
16:13 Some helpful information for stranded travellers is also available on boards.ie
16:03 Eurocontrol, the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation, is posting regular Twitter updates on www.twitter.com/eurocontrol.
16:02 We've just heard here at the RTÉ online news desk that our boss, who has been stuck in France since last Thursday, has just departed France by boat. Take your time, we say. Take your time!
16:01 The Consumer Council is recommending that air passengers affected by the disruptions keep receipts. They are concerned that people are not being made aware of their rights and are calling passengers to keep their receipts.
15:55 Following is a list of current disruption to European air travel.
AUSTRIA - Airports open as of 0400 GMT Monday.
BELGIUM - Airspace closed until Monday 1800 GMT. Airlines have been allowed to bring planes back to Belgium without passengers or freight.
BOSNIA - Airports open.
BRITAIN - British airspace will remain closed to flights until midnight GMT on Monday at the earliest.
BULGARIA - Sofia, Plovdiv and Burgas airports open, airports in northern Bulgaria closed. Transit flights permitted at 8,000 metres (26,250 feet) altitude.
CZECH REPUBLIC - Airspace and airports open as of 1000 GMT on Monday.
DENMARK - Airspace open for flights above 10,800 metres (35,500 feet). Airspace below this height closed all Monday.
ESTONIA - Airspace closed until 1200 GMT Monday.
FINLAND - The main Helsinki-Vantaa airport will open at 1200 GMT for at least eight hours until 2000 GMT. Regional Turku and Tampere-Pirkkala airports open until 2100 GMT
FRANCE - Bordeaux, Marseille, Nice, Toulouse and several other southwestern airports will remain open until at least 1300 GMT Monday. Airports north of Nice-Bordeaux line remain closed at least until Tuesday morning. Air France said a test flight from Paris to Toulouse on Sunday had gone without problems; tests continuing.
GERMANY - Airspace will likely remain closed until 0200 CET (0000 GMT).
HUNGARY - Airspace fully open as of 1000 GMT Monday.
IRELAND - Airspace closed until at least midnight.
ITALY - Northern airspace up to 6,700 metres (22,000 feet) re-closed until at least 0600 GMT Tuesday, after briefly opening airspace for two hours on Monday.
LATVIA - Airspace above 6,000 metres (19,700 feet) now open for transit flights, but flights to and from Riga airport not expected to resume on Monday.
LITHUANIA - Airspace open.
LUXEMBOURG - Air space closed until Monday 1800 GMT.
MONTENEGRO - Airports open.
NETHERLANDS - Airspace shut until at least 1200 GMT Monday.
NORWAY - Oslo Gardermoen Airport open for some air traffic. Other parts of the country, such as parts of northern Norway, closed to traffic.
POLAND - Airports closed on Monday. Transit flights in airspace permitted, but not landings and take-offs.
ROMANIA - Main Bucharest airport open from 1200 GMT Monday after two-day closure. May fully reopen airspace on Tuesday.
RUSSIA - All airports open. Aeroflot is flying to the United States via the North Pole.
SERBIA - Airports open.
SLOVAKIA - Eastern airspace open, as is the rest of its airspace for flights above 7,500 metres. Bratislava airport closed.
SLOVENIA - Slovenia expected another cloud of ash to reach its airspace around 1200 GMT Monday. It was then likely to close its airspace again, after opening it on Sunday night.
SPAIN - 17 airports open.
SWEDEN - Airspace open for flights north of a line stretching from the southern city of Gothenburg to Stockholm. Scandinavian Airlines resuming domestic flights in unrestricted airspace as well as flights between Stockholm and Oslo.
SWITZERLAND - Flight ban until at least 0600 GMT Tuesday. No instrument-guided flights will be allowed to land or take off at Swiss airports. Transit permitted at an altitude above 6,400 metres (21,000 feet).
TURKEY - All airports open. Planes flying out of the Black Sea cities of Samsun, Sinop and Zonguldak have been advised not to fly higher than 6,000 metres.
UKRAINE - Kiev's Borispol airport open.
15:48 EMI Music has confirmed that LCD Soundsystem have been forced to cancel their shows at Tripod in Dublin this week.
Rescheduled dates will be announced shortly.
15:44 The union for Greek air traffic controllers has delayed a strike set for later this week to avoid adding to the woes of passengers caught in the air travel paralysis.
The union said it did not want to add to the discomfort of the passengers, in light of the situation.
15:41 The volcanic ash cloud from Iceland has cut world jet fuel demand by at least one million barrels per day (bpd), or about a fifth of global consumption, market analysts say.
15:39 Hungary fully reopened its airspace today, the national air navigation service announced, with the first planes to start taking off and landing later in the afternoon.
According to the website of Budapest Airport, flights mostly to northwestern Europe, for example to Britain and Germany, will remain grounded, while services to southern Europe will gradually be resumed.
15:35 Kenya's flower exports are wilting under the economic burden of European airspace closures, leaving growers facing huge losses as they seek costly re-routing to foreign markets.
Exporters, mainly from the country's Rift Valley town of Naivasha, said they are losing around €1.5m each day and are mulling destroying tonnes of flowers in cold rooms since last week if they fail to export them.
15:33 The start of world chess final between Bulgaria's Veselin Topalov and Indian champion Viswanathan Anand could be delayed because of the ash cloud hanging over Europe.
Anand had been stuck in Frankfurt because of the air chaos and it was not known whether he had arrived in Sofia.
15:31 Slovenia will keep its airspace open until 8pm (1800GMT) after reopening it temporarily today following a two-day closure.
Earlier, the transport ministry said the airspace was clear for flights until the early afternoon, but the situation would be re-evaluated in view of the possibility of a new cloud of volcanic ash coming from Iceland.
15:29 India says it has at least 41,400 passengers stranded in the country because of the ash cloud over Europe, as travellers complain they are running out of money amid searing temperatures.
15:22 Norfolkline says there is still limited availability on this evening's (19th April) sailings from Liverpool (Birkenhead) to Belfast and Dublin. Tomorrow morning's (20th April) sailings from Liverpool (Birkenhead) to Belfast and Dublin also have limited availability.
15:15 Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin has said individuals stranded overseas who are running out of prescription medicines should have their relatives fax them copies of their prescriptions if possible.
15:13 P&O Irish Sea services on the Dublin - Liverpool route are currently operating on schedule. Next departures from Terminal 3, Dublin Port, opposite the O2, are at 2130 tonight Monday, 0930 Tues and 2130 Tues.
There is space available for motorists on the 0930 departures Tues. Available remaining spaces can be booked by calling 01-4073434, or www.poirishsea.com
Foot passengers cannot be conveyed on this service.
Scottish Route services from Larne to Cairnryan and Troon are also operating as normal with space available, and reservations can be made as above.
15:08 Stacy Anderson of Thomas Cook Holidays says that any people booked with Thomas Cook Ireland (Panorma, Sunworld, Direct Holidays) who were cancelled are being offered a full refund or can change to an alternative date.
'Any clients that travelled with us last week and are down in resort have been put up in alternative accommodations at no extra charge, and will also be put on a flight home as soon as the airports open back up.'
15:02 Callers to Joe Duffy have been offering help to stranded travellers across Europe.
Details of available lifts and coach spaces are available on the Liveline website
14:55 Hundreds of professional cyclists are stranded in Turkey, following the 46th Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey which ended on Sunday.
'We hope we can fly in the next three days to France because we have a race in Belgium next week. So, we have to wait,' said French cyclist Amael Moimard.
14.35 Eurostar says that from tomorrow until Sunday, all 30,000 of the available standard-class seats on its trains will be on offer at a special price of £89 one-way.
The company, which runs services between London and Paris and Brussels, said that between today and Sunday it would operate at least 28 additional trains.
14:27 Around 1,000 Irish citizens have contacted the Consular Crisis Centre since it opened at 3pm yesterday.
One third of the calls related to people who were running out of prescription medicines.
14:03 Irish airspace could be clear by tomorrow evening or Wednesday morning.
The Aviation Division at Met Éireann says that the fact that the volcano has stopped emitting ash, combined with prevailing meteorological conditions, means that the skies could clear sooner than originally thought.
14:01 The Dept of Foreign Affairs has been receiving calls from Irish citizens in the US who are concerned about outstaying the 90 days allowed under the Visa Waiver Programme.
Minister Micheál Martin says he has been assured by the US authorities that anyone who cannot leave the US before the end of the 90 days because of the current travel disruption will not be regarded as an 'overstayer'.
13:55 Are you struggling to make your way home to Ireland? Exhausted travellers are telling their stories to Joe Duffy on Liveline - Listen LIVE
13:48 Helpful website for those seeking bus connections between Europe and Ireland - Eurolines.co.uk
13:44 The Minister for Foreign Affairs says concerned Irish citizens abroad can call (00353) 1-408-2999
13:29 There may be another way to get off this island - by helicopter.
Aero Heli is offering shuttle services between Northern Ireland and England.
13:26 Glen Murphy of the Irish Maritime Development Office answers questions on the sea travel options open to Irish citizens stranded abroad - LIVE NOW on News at One.
13:20 Latest satellite image from Met Éireann
13:18 The Irish Aviation Authority has said that there will be no flights in Irish airspace until at least midnight tonight.
However, Chief Executive Eamon Brennan said he thought it would be possible to operate some flights tomorrow.
However Mr Brennan said that he did not believe that operations would be fully back to normal until Friday due to the scale of the backlogs and the dispersal of aircraft and airline crews.
13.12 Norfolkline says there is still limited availability on this evening's (19 April) 22.00hrs sailing from Dublin to Liverpool (Birkenhead).
Tomorrow morning's (20th April) 10.00am sailing from Dublin to Liverpool (Birkenhead) also has limited availability.
13:05 Transport Minister Noel Dempsey has said safety is the number one priority for the Government in relation to the grounding of flights due to the volcanic ash. He said the last thing the Government wanted was the responsibility for planes to crash. He said he was hopeful that air traffic would begin to return to normal on Friday.
12:29 The Department of Foreign Affairs Crisis Response Centre has so far received 800 phonecalls from Irish people stranded abroad.
The Emergency Taskforce also says there will soon be an impact on products available in shops - but there is no immediate difficulty with the supply of medicines or drugs.
12:28 A monitoring centre at Johnstown Castle in Co Wexford says it detected evidence yesterday of an ash cloud at around 10,000 feet.
12:23 The Taoiseach has said the Government is holding talks with ferry and shipping companies to review the capacities available to bring home Irish residents who are stranded abroad.
Speaking in Tullamore this morning, Mr Cowen said that while the Government did not have the sort of capacity that is available to their British counterparts through the royal navy, discussions were taking place with shipping companies to see if additional vessels or additional capacity could be made available.
12:18 Research agencies in the UK and Germany have found six different layers of ash during test flights.
Gerald Fleming of Met Éireann says there will be a significant decrease in the ash content over Ireland and the UK tomorrow, but it is not yet known whether that will allow flights to resume.
12:15 Met Éireann has said it is likely in the coming days that ash may fall in Ireland and may be visible when it falls.
There is evidence that weather changes at the weekend will enable flights restrictions in Ireland and other parts of the EU to be reduced.
12.08 Air France said that the disruption to services caused by the vast cloud of volcanic ash from Iceland was costing it €35m per day.
12.05 A buildup of glass has been found in the jet engine of a NATO fighter plane in Europe, a senior US official said.
'Allied F-16s were flying and they did find glass buildup inside the engines,' the official told reporters in Brussels, clarifying that the ash had affected one aircraft.
Ash from volcanos can be turned into a glass form at high temperatures when it passes through a jet engine.
12.01 Iceland's volcanic eruption has 'diminished markedly' and now is spewing far less ash, an Icelandic seismologist has said.
11:55 The Government taskforce on emergency planning is due to meet around now to review the situation caused by volcanic ash.
Irish airspace has been closed until to 6pm this evening, and the restrictions are likely to be further extended.
11:53 British Airways says the UK flights restrictions are costing it between £15-£20 million a day.
11:40 Eurocontrol says only around 8,000 of the normal 28,000 flights scheduled today will get into the air, and those mainly in southern Europe.
Nearly seven million passengers have been affected by the closures.
11:37 The air travel crisis has claimed another victim - rock veterans Status Quo are stranded in Moscow
'After all we've been through over the years, I never thought that our touring schedule would be threatened by a volcano,' a distraught Francis Rossi told Reuters.
11:23 The Swiss/Italian Stromboli Project has released some extraordinary photographs of the Eyafallajokull eruption, showing lightning caused by electrical discharge within the ash column (below) See the full collection
11:11 The European Commission is considering loosening stringent EU rules for state aid to help airlines hit by millions of euros in lost revenues due to the volcano crisis.
'I am looking carefully at what we did after Sept 11. We can use similar instruments. We are indeed facing exceptional circumstances,' Joaquin Almunia told news conference a short time ago.
11:03 The Irish Aviation Authority has warned that forecasts from the Volcanic Ash Centre in London show 'a deterioration in the ash coverage' which may lead to the Irish airspace closure being extended.
10:52 Latest satellite image from NASA (below) shows ash cloud over central Europe - view high res image here
10.49 Shares in leading European airlines have fallen in early trading, weighed down by the disruption and costs of volcanic ash from Iceland that has grounded tens of thousands of flights.
10.48 Finland's flagship carrier Finnair will operate a flight from New York to the western city of Turku today - some Finnish air space is expected to be temporarily reopened.
10.46 Japan has asked the International Tennis Federation to postpone its Fed Cup play-off against Slovenia next weekend due to the air traffic crisis caused by Iceland's volcanic eruption.
10.45 Hungary has opened its airspace until 1300GMT on Monday to allow aircraft to fly over the country above 24,500 feet, air traffic controller HungaroControl said in a statement.
10.42 Britain is dispatching Royal Navy ships to help bring home its nationals stranded by the closure of European airspace due to volcanic ash, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said.
The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal and amphibious assault ship HMS Ocean have been made available to help thousands of Britons stranded notably in France.
In addition, the British assault ship HMS Albion is en route to northern Spain to pick up British troops returning from Afghanistan - it could retrieve stranded British civilians too.
10.40 Airlines have urged governments to reopen routes through the volcanic ash cloud over Europe, branding the flight ban a ‘European mess’ and the economic fallout ‘greater than September 11’
10.39 Alitalia said it has resumed flights from Japan to Rome and Milan after securing clear southern routes into Italy
10.38 Current airspace status at 0900GMT
AUSTRIA - Airports open as of 0400GMT Monday.
BOSNIA - Airports open
BRITAIN - Airspace closed all Monday. British Airways cancels all Monday flights. An update is expected at about 1400GMT
BULGARIA - Sofia, Plovdiv and Burgas airports open, airports in northern Bulgaria closed. Transit flights permitted at 8,000 metres (26,250 feet) altitude
CZECH REPUBLIC - Airspace and airports open as of 1000 GMT on Monday
DENMARK - Airspace open for flights above 10,800 metres (35,500 feet). Airspace below this height closed all Monday
ESTONIA - Airspace closed until 1200 GMT Monday
FINLAND - Airspace over two airports to open for six hours on Monday thanks to gaps in the ash cloud. Flights to operate from southwestern city of Turku and central city of Tampere between 0900 - 1500 GMT. Other airports remain shut
FRANCE - Bordeaux, Marseille, Nice, Toulouse and several other southwest airports will remain open until at least 1300GMT Monday. Airports north of Nice-Bordeaux line remain closed at least until Tuesday morning. Air France said a test flight from Paris to Toulouse on Sunday had ended without problems; tests continuing.
GERMANY - Airports shut until 1200GMT Monday
HUNGARY - Airspace to remain closed until at least 1000 GMT Monday, although some flights at the discretion of traffic control may be allowed to take off or land
IRELAND - Airspace closed until at least 1200 GMT on Monday. Ryanair, Europe's largest low-cost carrier, cancelled all flights to and from northern Europe until at least mid-Wednesday. Aer Lingus cancelled all flights Monday
ITALY - Northern airspace up to 6,700 metres (22,000 feet) re-closed until at least 0600 GMT Tuesday, after briefly opening airspace for two hours on Monday
LATVIA - Airspace above 6,000 metres (19,700 feet) now open for transit flights, but flights to and from Riga airport not expected to resume on Monday
LITHUANIA - Airspace open
MONTENEGRO - Airports open
NETHERLANDS - Airspace shut until at least 1200 GMT Monday
NORWAY - Oslo Gardermoen Airport open for some air traffic Other parts of the country, such as parts of northern Norway, closed to traffic
POLAND - Airports closed on Monday. Transit flights in airspace permitted, but not landings and take-offs.
ROMANIA - Main Bucharest airport open from 1200GMT Monday after two-day closure. May fully reopen airspace on Tuesday
RUSSIA - All airports open. Aeroflot is flying to the United States via the North Pole
SERBIA - Airports open
SLOVAKIA - Airspace above 7,500 metres (26,500 feet) open. Bratislava airport closed
SLOVENIA - Slovenia expects another cloud of ash to reach its airspace around 1200 GMT Monday following which it will probably close its airspace again after opening it last night.
SPAIN - 17 airports open
SWEDEN - Airspace open for flights north of a line stretching from the southern city of Gothenburg to Stockholm Scandinavian airlines to make a decision later on Monday about resuming flights
SWITZERLAND - Flight ban until at least 0600 GMT Tuesday. No instrument-guided flights will be allowed to land at or take off from Swiss airports. Transit permitted at an altitude above 6,400 metres (21,000 feet)
TURKEY - All airports open. Planes flying out of the Black Sea cities of Samsun, Sinop and Zonguldak have been advised not to fly higher than 6,000 metres
UKRAINE - Kiev's Borispol airport open
10.30 Eurocontrol said in a statement it expected 8,000 to 9,000 flights to take place, compared with about 28,000 that would normally be expected.
10.15 30% of European flights set to go ahead Monday: Eurocontrol.
10.12 P&O Irish Sea Ferries confirms that all services between Larne, Troon and Cairnryan are operating to schedule with spaces currently available for both vehicles and passengers on all sailings today.
09.55 Bus Éireann, in conjunction with Stena Line and Irish Ferries, has put in place additional coaches for the following services to the UK today and for the rest of the week while disruption to air traffic remains.
19:30 Eurolines Dublin (Busaras) – Birmingham/London (city centre)
19;15 Eurolines Dublin-Liverpool-Manchester-Leeds
16:00 Eurolines Cork/Waterford-London (city centre)
Eurolines services to London can be used to connect with Eurolines services across Europe.
Customers are advised to purchase their ticket online at www.buseireann.ie.
09.54 The whole of Czech airspace will reopen at noon (1000 GMT) after being closed for three days, Richard Klima, spokesman for air traffic control service RLP.
09.52 British Prime Minister has said that Royal Navy is being deployed to bring back stranded citizens.
09.51 Club Travel has said: 'Unless you are prepared to risk staying in-situ for the forthcoming days and possibly for an even longer period, the only alternative is to start making you way overland.'
09.15 Swiss authorities has said an altitude limit for planes overflying the country has been lowered to 6,400 metres as the volcanic ash cloud from Iceland has settled below this level.
09.13 Romania will resume air traffic at its main Bucharest airports from 1200 GMT after a two-day closure due to the ash cloud.
It may fully reopen its airspace on Tuesday, Prime Minister Emil Boc said.
09.00 All flights from the City of Derry Airport been cancelled. Aer Arann say that all flights from Dublin to the Derry have been cancelled for today.
08.48 Eurocontrol has held a news conference saying:
Spreading of the ashcloud is expected to be a lot less than in the last four days with normal weather conditions.
All governments that have opened up airspace have been given specific authorisation for flying.
50% of airspace in Europe is now out of the cloud.
Member States and the European Commission are working to find a method to refine approach.
Reports on test flights have been shared among ALL aviation partners, experts are currently looking at them.
08.40 UK extends flight ban to midnight GMT
08.38 Italy aviation authority recloses skies over north Italy to at least 1800GMT - ANSA.
08.36 Airlines urge opening of 'some corridors' over Europe: IATA.
08.33 Six Polish airports were closed again overnight but overflights are still possible.
A spokesman for the PAZP air navigation agency, said the Polish skies remain open only to planes overflying the territory at above 6,400 metres.
08.25 Denmark reopens airspace for flights above 35,000 feet
08.23 Germany's air safety agency DFS has extended to 8pm (1800 GMT) the shutdown of its airspace
08.05 Volcanic ash cloud could hit Canadian coast today: British forecasters
08.03 The Irish Aviation Authority has closed airspace here until 6pm.
07.55 More than 150 flights from China to Europe have been cancelled in the past week, stranding hundreds of passengers.
The figure includes only the nation's four biggest domestic carriers, and not foreign airlines that have cancelled their flights from China.
07.53 Stockholm Arlanda airport reopens
07.50 A Nationwide train strike in France is adding to travel woes, with just one in two high-speed trains running.
There is widespread disruption throughout the regional rail system.
07.30 Two airports in western Romania have reopened: Airports in Timisoara and Arad reopened at 9am (0600 GMT) after being closed on Friday, Romanian air traffic service said
06.50 Motorcycling: Japan GP postponed to October due to volcanic eruption
06.50 Australia's Qantas Airways has extended its European flight cancellations into Wednesday and warned travel would remain difficult for 'some days' even after volcano-hit services resume
06.45 Finland to temporarily open two airports today, Turku and Tampere will be temporarily opened between 12-6pm (0900-1500 GMT)
06.35 NASA says Iceland's erupting volcano will not affect Discovery's landing today. Re-entry course is not near ash cloud
06.33 The current phase of the Eyjafjallajökull eruption in Iceland started during 14 April, where melt penetrated its way to the central crater beneath the glacier. Eruptions are continuing periodically. (source: Met Éireann)
06.30 Germany extends airspace shutdown to 1800 GMT
6am Based on the latest information from the UK Met Office, Britain’s National Air Traffic Services, NATS, advises that the current restrictions across UK controlled airspace due to the volcanic ash cloud will remain in place until at least 7pm (local) on Monday 19 April
Anyone hoping to travel should contact their airline before travelling to the airport
