Air travel is becoming more common. In these days, with airlines cutting costs Avoid tickets to remain competitive, increase options for passengers, offering them new attractions for your trip. What is also quite common today is the occurrence of natural disasters or extreme weather events, many of which have negative effects on air transport.
Think about it, the last one or two years, how many times he opened the newspaper and saw pictures of stranded passengers, the improvisation of campsites all your luggage with passengers on the output terminals of airports while awaiting a flight take them to their final destination … or the airlines provide them with accommodation during the wait? Many, and each year add some more!
Of course, some of these delays are related to aircraft that are not working well, or problems with labor unions of air transport. However, extreme weather conditions are a growing cause of disorders: the snow is one of these causes can be more present. The presence of snow affect flights in much of the United States and in Europe as recently as Christmas limpets, which many people could not go home and had to spend Christmas at the airport, or-who had more luck in the room of a hotel.
Another extreme is recurrent in recent years is volcanic ash. In 2010 was the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland. Eyjafjallajökull seismic activity began in late 2009. Its first eruption occurred in March 2010 and in mid-April of that year, the second phase of the eruption created a cloud of ash that affected air travel in Europe until well into the month of May. It was the highest level of disruption to air travel since the Second World War, which led to the closure of most of the airspace of Europe in the first five days of this second stage of eruption, and many more flight cancellations in subsequent days until the situation normalizes, virtually to the month of June.
About the same time this year and again in Iceland, 21 May 2011el Grímsvötnentró volcano erupting. This was, according to Magnus TumiGudmundsson geophysicist deal University of Iceland, the largest eruption of this volcano in the last 100 years, and definitely “much larger and more intense than Eyjafjallajokull.” However, the winds of 2011 were not as strong, and the ashes were heavier than the previous year, thus the spread of this new ash was not as detrimental to air traffic, compared to what happened in 2010. Anyway, some Nordic airports and some UK airports, and recorded pre-emotively shut a bit of ash in its airspace.