Large parts of Europe enforced no-fly rulings for a fourth day on Sunday because of a huge ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano that has caused the worst air travel chaos since the Sept. 11 attacks
Below is a list of countries as of 1845 GMT on Sunday and their airspace status:
AUSTRIA - Airspace expected to remain closed until at least 2400
GMT Sunday.
BELGIUM - Airspace closed until at least 1800 GMT Sunday. Main
airline, Brussels Airlines, has cancelled all flights until
Monday.
BRITAIN - Airspace closed until at least 0600 GMT Monday. Update
expected around 2000 GMT. British Airways cancels all Monday
flights.
BULGARIA - Sofia and Plovdiv airports open as of 1100 GMT Sunday.
Other airports closed. Transit flights permitted at 8,000 metres
altitude.
CZECH REPUBLIC - Airspace closed until at least 1000 GMT
Monday.
DENMARK - Airspace closed until 1200 GMT Monday.
ESTONIA - Airspace closed until 1200 GMT Monday.
FINLAND - Airspace closed until at least 1500 GMT Monday.
FRANCE - Bordeaux, Marseille, Nice, Toulouse and several other
southwest airports will remain open until at least 1300 GMT Monday.
Airports north of Nice-Bordeaux line remain closed at least until
Tuesday morning. Air France said a test flight from Paris to
Toulouse on Sunday had ended without problems; tests
continuing.
GERMANY - Several airports open for flights heading in an easterly
or northerly direction until 1800 GMT on Sunday.
HUNGARY - Airspace to remain closed until at least 1000 GMT Monday,
although some flights at the discretion of traffic control may be
allowed to take off or land.
IRELAND - Airspace closed until at least 1200 GMT on Monday.
Ryanair, Europe's largest low-cost carrier, cancelled all flights
to and from northern Europe until at least mid-Wednesday. Aer
Lingus cancelled all flights for Monday.
ITALY - Northern airspace closed until at least 0600 GMT
Monday.
LATVIA - Airspace closed until 0600 GMT Monday.
LITHUANIA - Lithuania airspace is now open, Vilnius Airport said on
its website on Sunday.
LUXEMBOURG - Luxembourg airport closed until at least 1600 GMT
Sunday.
NETHERLANDS - Dutch airline KLM cancels all European flights on
Sunday and intercontinental flights from Amsterdam until at least
1800 GMT. Airspace closed until at least 1800 GMT Sunday.
NORWAY - Airspace opened for some traffic north of Bergen, with
some northern areas still closed. Other main airports in southern
Norway, such as Oslo Gardermoen and Stavanger, are still closed.
Civil aviation authority Avinor said airspace over southern Norway
as well as the few northern areas closed may open later on Sunday.
Update expected around 1900 GMT.
POLAND - Six Polish airports, including Warsaw, reopen for
commercial flights.
ROMANIA - Airspace closed until at least 0900 GMT Monday.
RUSSIA - All airports open. Aeroflot is flying to the United States
via the North Pole.
SLOVAKIA - Airspace closed as of 1300 GMT on Friday.
SPAIN - The 17 airports closed over Sunday morning by the Spanish
airport authorities are now all open.
SWEDEN - Airport authority has opened airspace north of 62
degrees latitude, about 250 km north of Stockholm. The rest remains
closed into Monday. Scandinavian Airlines said most of its flights
on April 18 and 19 had been cancelled.
SWITZERLAND - Main carrier Swiss says cancelled all European
flights from and to Switzerland until Monday, 1800 GMT. Swiss also
says cancelled all intercontinental flights from Switzerland for
all of Monday.
TURKEY - All airports open. Planes flying out of the Black Sea
cities of Samsun, Sinop and Zonguldak have been advised not to fly
higher than 20,000 feet (6 km).
UKRAINE - Kiev's Borispol airport open.
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