Flight disruptions due to Icelandic volcano eruption
Published: 21 April 2010
UPDATED INFORMATION at 12.40, Wednesday 21 April:
The airspace over Stockholm Skavsta Airport is expected to open at 14.00 today. The airlines current decisions to cancel all traffic to and from the airport today still apply. The traffic is expected to getting started on Thursday 22 April, see information from respective airline below.
The latest information from Luftfartsverket (LFV - Swedish Air Navigation Service):
(UPDATED Wednesday 21 April at 09.30)
The prognosis shows that most of the Swedish airspace will reopen today. At the moment it is open over Småland-Skåne and north of Söderhamn. The airspace over Gothemburg, Stockholm and Skavsta is still closed.
According to the plans, the airspace over the south of Sweden up to Stockholm Skavsta Airport will open at 14.00 local time. Also the area of Gothemburg will be open by then.
All Swedish airspace, except over Borlänge and Karlstad, will open at 16.00. All European airspace will open gradually during the day.
Latest information from the airlines:
Ryanair
Ryanair starts the air traffic to and from Stockholm Skavsta Airport
tomorrow morning, Thursday 22 April.
All Ryanair air traffic to and from Sweden will be cancelled today, Wednesday 21 April.
Wizz Air
Wizz Air informs at their website that all flights to and from Stockholm Skavsta Airport are cancelled
until Wednesday 21 April
. For information about following days, please check the Wizz Air website below.
For more information of affected flights and to rebook flights, please visit the airlines respecitve websites:
Ryanair
Wizz Air
Background information
At 14.00 Thursday 15 April, the airspace over a large part of Sweden were closed, due to the recent volcano eruption in Iceland. At 22.00 the whole Swedish airspace was closed.
This means that no aircraft is allowed to start or land at Stockholm Skavsta Airport.
The authorities and Eurocontrol (in Brussels) decide when the airspace will be opened again, it is not in the hands of the airlines to decide.
Stockholm Skavsta Airport will update the Departures/Arrivals information as soon as we get official information from the airlines - that is why there will be some delays in the updates.
For information about the Volcanic Ash and how it affects the European airspace, please visit the LFV website.
For information about how this will affect the air traffic the following days, please visit the airlines' websites above.
Stockholm Skavsta Airport and the airlines sincearly apologises for any inconvenience caused by these disruptions.