Ash From Iceland Volcano Forces Cancellation of Thousands of Flights

Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 04.15.10 | 11:51 AM ET

Airport display board in Edinburgh, Scotland, today. (REUTERS/Russell Cheyne)

Oh Iceland. Now look at what you’ve done.

Amazingly, the closing of air space across parts of northwestern Europe due to widespread ash from a volcanic eruption in Iceland is, according to the New York Times, “among the most sweeping ever ordered in peacetime.”