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European Flight Control Board Reportedly Recommends Resumption of Some Flights As Ash Not Shooting as High
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A film crew working for National Geographic publication set-up on southern Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull glacier after landing on the glacier, close to the volcanic eruption, April 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Reynir Petursson)
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Play CBS Video Video Volcano Ash Changes Behavior The ash and smoke spewing from an Icelandic volcano appear to be lessening. As Richard Roth reports, there's hope that European air traffic will begin returning to normal soon.
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Volcano experts offered Monday an ever so slightly optimistic bit of news to the millions of stranded airline passengers grounded by an Icelandic eruption of ash and dust; the latest belches of jet-engine clogging debris don't seem to be reaching flight altitude.
Icelandic forecasters said the newest ash plume to issue forth from the molten crater was rising to about 15,000 feet, rather than the 30,000 to 40,000 feet where commercial jets normally cruise, thus presenting slightly less of a threat to flights.
"The situation is definitely better than it was particularly on Saturday, which was a difficult day for us due to heavy ash fall just south of the volcano," Urdur Gudmundsdottir, a spokeswoman at the foreign ministry told the Reuters news agency.
Scientists were preparing to fly over the volcano Monday and look for signs that lava was beginning to flow out of the crater, a sign that the ash and dust stage of the eruption may be coming to an end.
The easing of the eruption - at least the ash portion, reportedly prompted European aviation navigation officials to recommend a resumption of some flights by Tuesday morning, according to the industry news service Air Transport Intelligence.
"They have suggested there is enough information to begin resuming flights tomorrow," a spokesman for European air traffic control group CANSO told ATI. It was unclear the extent to which the skies over Europe might reopen based on CANSO's recommendation, which is just one factor government heads will take into consideration when reassessing the current bans.
Air traffic across all of Europe was expected to be about 30 percent of the normal flight count Monday, according to figures released by Eurocontrol, the European Organization for the Safety of Air Navigation.
The group's predictions for Monday, the fifth straight day of sweeping flight cancellations, were that 8,000 to 9,000 flights would take place over Europe, covering about 50 percent of the total European airspace. On a normal Monday, Eurocontrol says about 28,000 flights would crisscross the continent.
The grounded flights and stranded passengers are costing the airline industry an estimated $200 million - possibly as much as $250 million - every day. The stranded passengers, many of whom have found themselves out of pocket for unexpected days of hotel stays and food, are also stomaching terrible financial losses.
Those loses, says CBS News travel editor Peter Greenberg, himself stranded in London awaiting a trip back to the U.S., don't even begin to reflect the billions lost in cargo shipping and global trade under the flight bans.
Those pressures were mounting fast on government leaders across Europe Monday morning, but Britain, which has been on almost complete lockdown since Wednesday, is feeling it most. More than 150,000 British travelers are thought to be stranded in all corners of the globe.
"The British are discovering they're an island nation once more," reported CBS News correspondent Mark Phillips from a very quiet London City Airport.
The extraordinary circumstances led Prime Minister Gordon Brown to send at least three Royal Navy warships on Monday to try and rescue those stranded across the Channel in mainland Europe.
Two ships were headed for unspecified ports on the English Channel, presumably in northern France. Another was en route to Spain to pick up thousands of British troops who were left stranded while trying to return from a tour of duty in Afghanistan.
"Safety must be our first and most paramount concern," Brown told reporters. He said he was "confident" transportation could be organized by the government to ferry travelers across the channel to Briton from France - if his ambitious plan to use Madrid's main airport as a "hub" into Western Europe could be made to work.
Brown said he was in talks with his Spanish counterpart Jose Luis Zapatero to organize buses and trains from Madrid to points further north or on the coast, and that transportation from those locations would be arranged.
The aviation industry, meanwhile, blasted European transport officials and claimed there was "no coordination and no leadership" in the crisis that shut down most European airports.
The International Air Transport Association says the airport lockdowns are costing the aviation industry at least $200 million a day. Millions of travelers have been stuck since the volcano under Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull glacier begun erupting Wednesday for the second time in a month.
Meeting in Paris, the IATA expressed its "dissatisfaction with how governments have managed it, with no risk assessment, no consultation, no coordination, and no leadership" and called for greater urgency in reopening Europe's skies.
Several major airlines safely tested the skies with weekend flights that did not carry passengers.
British Airways told CBS News on Monday that CEO Willie Walsh even joined a crew Sunday for a two hour, 46 minute flight that took the Boeing 747 westward across Wales and Ireland before returning to the company's engineering base in Cardiff, Wales.
The plane maintained an altitude of 40,000 feet for an hour during the flight, according to a company spokesperson.
"The conditions were perfect and the aircraft encountered no difficulties. It will now undergo a full technical analysis at British Airways' engineering base," said the spokesperson.
The announcement of successful test flights prompted some airline officials to wonder whether authorities had overreacted to concerns that the microscopic particles of volcanic ash could cause jet engines to fail.
Transport ministers from Britain, Germany, France and Spain were meeting Monday via videoconference and later joined by all 27 EU transport ministers, said French Transport Minister Dominique Bussereau.
"We will try to outline corridors, if we can, based on the evolution of the cloud, to allow the reopening of as large a number of flight paths as possible, as quickly as possible and in good security conditions," Bussereau said.
Eurocontrol said Monday that southern Europe, including Portugal, Spain, parts of Italy and France, the Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey, and parts of northern Europe were currently open for flights.
EU Transport Commissioner Siim Kallas told reporters in Brussels that "it is clear that this is not sustainable. We cannot just wait until this ash cloud dissipates."
"Now it is necessary to adopt a European approach" instead of a patchwork of national closures and openings, said Diego Lopez Garrido, state secretary for EU affairs for Spain, which holds the rotating EU presidency.
Tensions boiled over at Incheon International Airport in South Korea, where 30 frustrated passengers blocked a Korean Air ticketing counter and demanded officials arrange travel to anywhere in Europe after hearing about the test flights.
They held up a makeshift sign saying, "We want to come back home," each word written on a separate piece of paper and held by an individual traveler.
"We need a flight, we need a time," Thierry Loison, who has been stuck at the airport since Friday on the way back to France, told Korean Air officials. "We were like animals this morning."
Passengers complained about having to sleep on the airport floor due to a lack of hotel rooms and said they were only receiving a voucher for one meal a day at McDonald's. Some were running out of money.
"We are on the floor," Andrew Turner, a graduate student en route to London after a holiday in Sydney, told Korean Air officials, referring to sleeping accommodations. "We have one meal a day ... at the moment a lot of people are not eating."
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines said it had flown four planes Sunday through what it described as a gap in the layer of microscopic dust over Holland and Germany. Air France, Lufthansa and Austrian Airlines also sent up test flights, although most traveled below the altitudes where the ash has been heavily concentrated.
"There is currently no consensus as to what consists an acceptable level of ash in the atmosphere," said Daniel Hoeltgen, a spokesman for the European Aviation Safety Agency. "This is what we are concerned about and this is what we want to bring about so that we can start operating aircraft again in Europe."
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