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Home Aircraft Airlines Airports Destinations Hotels & Resorts Car Rental Rail & Road Fidelity Programs Travel Health Travel & Air Safety Travel & Air Security Travel Tech Travel Tips NEWS News Center Events FLIGHTS & SIGHTS Airport Guides Airport Status City Guides Flight Status AIRGUIDE Subscribe Advertising Marketing Content Info Services About Us Contact Us Site Map	European Aviation Shutdown Report as of Monday April 19. Large parts of Europe enforced no-fly rulings for a fourth day on Sunday because of a huge ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano that has caused the worst air travel chaos since the Sept. 11 attacks. Here is a list of countries as of 1100 GMT on Monday and their airspace status: AUSTRIA - Airports open as of 0400 GMT Monday. BELGIUM - Air space closed until Monday 1800 GMT. Airlines have been allowed to bring planes back to Belgium without passengers or freight. BOSNIA - Airports open. BRITAIN - Airspace closed all Monday. British Airways cancels all Monday flights. 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 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 southwest 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 ended without problems; tests continuing. GERMANY - Airports shut until 1200 GMT Monday. HUNGARY - Airspace fully open as of 1000 GMT Monday. IRELAND - Airspace closed until at least 1200 GMT on Monday. Ryanair cancelled all flights to and from northern Europe until at least mid-Wednesday. Aer Lingus cancelled all flights on 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. 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 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. SAS resuming domestic flights in the 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 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.	Subscribe
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