Newcastle Airport resume after the volcanic Chaos

Newcastle International airport is the only airport in the country able to handle flights currently.

Just a handful of flights are leaving the UK on day 6 of the volcanic ash crisis. However,  Newcastle Airport is operational today after five days without flights because of the new cloud of volcanic ash from Iceland.

A few flights are taking off in Newcastle airport this morning and only eight out of the usually programmed one hundred and thirty will be running. The Newcastle airport’s head of planning and corporate affairs, Graham Mason told Spark Fm that, they have a limited operation in terms of the scheduled services.

He said that, ‘we had a flight in from Aberdeen and then that went back out again, but we’ve also had a jet two aircraft and a Thomas Cook aircraft that have both gorn out empty to pick people up, they wouldn’t necessarily to come back to Newcastle, they will go wherever, the may not come back until the situation has improved across the whole of the country.’

The spread of volcanic ash has affected much of the UK’s airspace and there will be no flights until at least 1am tomorrow. Besides, the Met Office shows that the situation will continue to be ‘variable’ as the Eruptions from the Eyjafjallajökull volcano are still erupting and the eruptions still take ash over 12,000ft.

For the future safety of a British national stranded abroad can call a Foreign Office helpline on 020 7008 0000, or visit to its website.