So, the ash cloud is back. Sorry for the lack of updates in the past days, but paying job and house hunting took most of our time.
Anyhow, during the end of the week, the ash cloud caused once again big problems to air traffic in Europe. First, it affected transatlantic flights, forcing airlines to reroute some of their main flights. Then, the ash cloud
moved to Southern Europe, with most airports closed in northern Italy, and some in northern Spain, southern France, Switzerland, Germany, Scotland, and Ireland. In Iceland, Keflavík airport and Reykjavík domestic airport were also closed during the weekend.
Today, airports in Iceland were open again, with some minor delays and some cancellations for flights to Southern Europe, and most of the airspace in Europe was also reopened. Anyhow, truth is that there are no signs that the eruption at Eyjafjallajökull will come to an end anytime soon. “Presently there are no indications that the eruption is about to end”, the Icelandic Met Office’s latest report says.
We received many and many e-mails of people planning their holidays in the next weeks, months, or even at the end of the year in Iceland, asking us whether they should cancel their flights and hotel bookings. The answer is that it is already difficult to forecast what will happen tomorrow, but speaking of the situation weeks or months from now is just guesswork; any tour operator or online source saying otherwise is lying. The only thing I can tell you is that, right now, life in Reykjavík goes on as usual. The latest days have been the most beautiful sunny days of the year yet. Plenty of tourists in the streets, with some guesthouses already fully booked. If you can afford the risk of being stranded on the island because of the ash cloud, then, by all means, come here.