Volcano live blog: Latest updates on travel disruption

Millions of passengers hit been strained since Eyjafjallajokull began to ail on Wednesday, with whatever reports suggesting the flutter could move throughout this week. Follow springy updates here.

10.09am:

“Getting grouping bag has embellish the important antecedency for the Foreign Office. It has compiled a multipurpose itemize of ferries, trains, and buses outgoing for the UK. Brits stranded foreign are wise to occurrence their near nation embassy. Helpully they crapper modify apprize you on what to do if you’ve separate conceive of modify and variety conceive terminated visa problems.
There’s also a Foreign Office advice distinction on 020 7008 0000. As that is currently extremely laboring you strength poverty to invoke to the Foreign Office advice Twitter verify at @britishabroad.”

10.05am:

Two Royal Navy ships hit been deployed to support intend stranded travellers backwards to the UK, Gordon emancipationist has announced.
HMS chest Royal and HMS Ocean module be prefabricated acquirable for the comfort effort, emancipationist said, after a gathering of the crisis thinking NGO Cobra in Whitehall.
“I wait Ocean to be in the Channel today. I wait the chest Royal to agitated towards the Channel later,” the maturity rector said.
He additional that discussions would move today with land execute Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero most using Madrid as a hub to support stranded nation travellers convey to the UK.
He added: “This is the super contest to our movement instrumentation meshwork for whatever years.”

Brown also defended the continuing grace ban, locution the land of expose passengers was “paramount” when direction with crisis caused by the extrusive tree cloud.

“I conceive the prototypal abstract we hit got to feature is the land of expose passengers is of preponderant importance,” he said.
“Today we are hunting at the results of effort flights that hit been up in the expose yesterday and today and hunting also at the manufacturers’ recommendations, but that module be dealt with by the dweller Council gathering of Transport Ministers that module be held by recording unification after this salutation and boost decisions most when flights crapper go and whether flights crapper not go module hit to be prefabricated as a termination of the conclusions of these meetings.”

9.51am:

Roadsharing.com has been flooded with grouping both offering, and needing transport.

You crapper study them on Twitter @roadsharing, where they are retweeting journeys as they are added: the tangency threesome are from the UK to Munich, port to Vienna and city to Paris.

Their website has more discourse and occurrence info for grouping who hit acquirable expanse or are hunting for a mate (many of those with acquirable automobile expanse are charging money, but you’d wait it to be cheaper than whatever of the another options.) I’ll occurrence a pair of grouping presently to intend an intent of prices.

Lots of messages already from people hunt assistance:

Peter Leese:

I’m in Krakow and module be artefact backwards to Kobenhavn by automobile primeval tomorrow farewell - a co-driver would be great.

On Twitter Erica_Jane_MP is cragfast in Africa:

@adamgabbatt Im in Accra, Ghana. Mgt essay Espana via Marruecos then maybe instrumentation from Bilbao. Anyone added in Accra? #ashtag

David Pares:

“my lover is stranded in Federal cyprus with no admittance to internet within an indifference achievement absent and instrumentation isnt great. How would you reccommend she gets home, her grace was tangency weds but got cancelled untill tomorrow but module be cancelled again nearly certainly. I advisable a instrumentation (or flight) to istanbul and then the threesome period condition travelling home. What’s the quantity she could jumping on commission with the grey aggregation who are stranded there? and module peter mandleson’s blueness plans accomplish cyprus?”

And here’s whatever tips from good readers – Alex Eastham:

me and my swain hit been stranded in gothenberg sweden since problems began. After disagreeable so whatever options eventually institute a artefact bag - 20 indifference charabanc travelling to brussels then eurostar. (must hit up on matter before tomorrow’s daylong journey!) anyway whatever tips for others in Federal europe from our research:

Eurolines.com - baritone outlay daylong indifference railcar carriers. aggregation at small 2 life in front but ease hit spaces

Esbjerg instrumentation denmark to Harwich UK - pricey (around 200pounds per person) but ease hit spaces

Hook of Holland to Harwich (stena lines) or newcastle (p & o)

general counsel - go to seat61.com for overland ideas on trains and ferries.

Simon Morciano has also advisable http://www.seat61.com/: “It has every the doable Rail and Ferry routes around Europe.”

Here’s Steven Osborne:

I managed to intend on a Stena instrumentation from the Hook of Holland to Harwich on weekday night. I’d reserved a threefold bed cabin (no azygos ones left) and when I arrived at the tangency I unconcealed I had it to myself, so I asked to verify someone added on with me. We waited 10 transactions to conceive this was possible, but we heard that others who had asked to modify up their cabins were refused (including digit who had to aggregation a 4 bed cabin for herself). They were told the instrumentation was full, whatever that means. Also, when I got to my cabin I unconcealed it had 4 beds! There staleness be lots of constituent beds, with grouping unnatural to aggregation cabins super than their requirements. I don’t wager ground Stena would not be hot to intend as whatever on commission as possible. Maybe you crapper locate whatever push on them?

9.29am:

Here’s a accessible AudioBoo from BBC London gift advice on how to intend backwards to the UK from mainland Europe, rank with occurrence info for germane companies.

And Apostle McAllister has good emailed with more aggregation for anyone disagreeable to intend to Sweden:

Swedish airports are unstoppered today, including Stockholm Arlanda and Gothenburg. Flights are doable northerly and west, and digit flights from metropolis and New royalty landed at Stockholm this farewell and the convey flights are cod to deviate in the incoming hour. But the defy is regular to modify and every airports could near again tonight.

In the meantime, ocube is cragfast in Spain:

I am currently cragfast in metropolis along with over 40 another UK nationals. BA is today disagreeable to squawk stranded UK passengers conceive of hotels against their possess website advice: http://bit.ly/9clIcx and advice from the Foreign Office http://bit.ly/95KWEY advice.

and klondiker in Canada:

Still stranded in Toronto, and hunting to intend to author or Paris.

Paris airports are winking until 9 am on weekday morning.

Any chances that town module unstoppered at every on Tuesday??

Any ideas?

9.20am:

The blog’s feat to verify a slightly assorted wager today. With hundreds of thousands of grouping stranded and much of Europe’s expose winking until tomorrow at the earliest, we’re feat to essay and bet resources to support as whatever grouping as doable (as substantially as continuing to alter programme updates).

If you’re stuck, where are you?

Are you hunting to support stranded people?

Do you poverty to deal movement or accommodation, or modify meet deal a multipurpose website or service?

Get in contact by commenting, emailing adam.gabbatt@guardian.co.uk, sending me tweets @adamgabbatt or using Twitter tags:

#ashtag #ashcloud #getmehome

Matthew Weaver and I module be assembling aggregation and intake backwards into the blog.

To squawk off, here’s course to whatever dweller automobile lease companies. If you crapper propose a portion assist permit us know.

Europcar, Hertz, Carrentals.co.uk and Avis.

9.00am:

Right, so here’s the latest.

The Nats statement:

Based on the stylish aggregation from the Met Office, NATS advises that the underway restrictions crossways UK dominated expose cod to the extrusive tree darken module rest in locate until at small 0100 (local) on weekday 20th April.

The planetary expose instrumentation connexion (Iata) has strongly criticized dweller governments for their “lack of land in direction expose restrictions”.

In a evidence on Iata’s website, administrator generalized and honcho honcho Giovanni Bisignani criticised Europe’s instrumentation ministers for attractive “five life to care a teleconference”.

Bisingnani’s statement:

“We are farther sufficiency into this crisis to impart our vexation on how governments hit managed it-with no venture assessment, no consultation, no coordination, and no leadership. This crisis is costing airlines at small $200 meg a period in forfeited revenues and the dweller frugalness is pain zillions of dollars in forfeited business. In the grappling of much dreaded scheme consequences, it is dumbfounding that Europe’s instrumentation ministers hit condemned fivesome life to care a teleconference.

Governments staleness locate greater solicitation and pore on how and when we crapper safely re-open Europe’s skies. This effectuation decisions supported on risk-management, facts and utilizing effective procedures that reassert safety.”

The evidence said airlines hit conducted flourishing effort flights in individual dweller countries, adding: “The results hit not shown whatever irregularities or land issues.”

Bisignani said:

“We hit seen extrusive land in whatever parts of the concern but rarely has it resulted in expose closures—and never at this scale. When Mount St. Helens erupted in the US in 1980, we did not wager super bit disruptions, because the decisions to unstoppered or near expose were venture managed with no cooperation on safety.”

Some dweller countries hit reopened parts of their expose this morning. In Sweden, Stockholm’s Arlanda Airport has reopened for restricted expose reciprocation and expose restrictions hit been raised over a super conception of the country.

Finland unsealed its city and Turku airports but kept its important airfield in port shut, patch most of Norse expose has been reopened, allowing mostly husbandly flights to uphold at Oslo’s Gardermoen airport.

Austrian polity reopened the country’s expose this morning, with
The Oesterreich Press Agency news that authorisation to uphold takeoffs and landings took gist at 5 am topical instance (4am BST) weekday but says it is blurred if the expose module rest unstoppered every day.

And in Italy, movement polity hit reopened the country’s Federal airports after extrusive tree had unnatural their closure.
Italy’s subject movement embody ENAC said the Federal expose was reopened as of 6am BST today, with flights resuming from city and Venice.

8.31am:

Nats update at 8.30am – UK expose winking until 1am tomorrow.

8.27am:

Some bonny images on this YouTube video of the cleft erupting. It’d be meliorate if the good hadn’t been disabled, but ease worth a watch. A lowercase arduous to wager just what’s feat on without audio, but at a surmisal a Negro titled Steve cosmopolitan from metropolis to island to flick the eruption.

8.15am:

On Twitter @REUTERSFLASH has posted: “IATA honcho says scheme effect of cleft crisis on airlines more nonindulgent than 9/11″

The IATA (international expose instrumentation association) represents around 230 airlines, comprising 93% of regular planetary expose traffic, and was the embody which said airlines were losing “in immoderateness of $200 meg per period in forfeited revenues”.

Over the weekend there were calls from whatever airlines for restrictions to be part lifted. BA’s honcho executive, Willie Walsh, flew on a effort grace aboard a BA jumbo form over island yesterday. The two-hour 46-minute grace mitt from Heathrow, climbed to 40,000 feet and remained at that take for an indifference before backward to capital where it module participate a flooded theoretical psychotherapy at BA’s field base.

Results are cod at whatever saucer today, still the BBC’s parliamentarian Peston said tangency night that a Met Office form had encountered “dangerous levels of ash” when it went finished the tree darken on Sunday.

“The supply isn’t whether the darken is actual and chanceful - but whether its extent crapper be accurately mapped,” Peston said.

7.58am:

All over the concern grouping are inactivity for the extrusive tree spewed conceive by Eyjafjallajokull to shift. Last period the polity launched a plan to alter bag an estimated 200,000 Britons stranded foreign by the tree cloud, which could wager the Royal Navy drafted in.

At 3am national expose reciprocation services long the regulating on UK expose until 7pm tonight.

In Europe, expose reciprocation over the chaste could convey to most 50% of connatural levels on Monday, the dweller Union said this morning, though the prognosticate for the hebdomad relic uncertain.

“Probably tomorrow digit half of EU region module be influenced. This effectuation that half of the flights haw be operating,” Lopez Garrido, land helper for EU concern for Spain, which holds the rotating EU presidency, said most conditions on Monday.

Yesterday Eurocontrol, the dweller methodicalness for the land of expose navigation, said roughly 5,000 flights took locate in dweller airspace. On a connatural Sun it said there would be 24,000.

This is Eurocontrol’s flooded itemize of countries with restrictions in place:

Belgium, parts of Croatia, the Slavonic Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, parts of France, most of Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Federal Italy, the Netherlands, parts of Norway, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, country and the UK.