All flights to and from Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport have been cancelled from 19.00 hours this evening because of the risk posed by clouds of ash from the volcanic eruption on Iceland.

‘The way the situation looks now, no flights too or from the Netherlands will be possible from after 19.00 hours,’ the airport’s website states.
All flights from Britain, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark have already been scrapped, and the cloud of ash is slowly moving southwards.
Experts say the tiny particles of rock, glass and sand which have been blasted into the air could jam aircraft engines, as has happened in the past.

Cancellations
On Thursday afternoon, flights to northern England, Scotland and Scandinavia were already seriously affected.
In 1989 a KLM flight on its way to Tokyo lost all four motors when it flew through ash from the Mount Redoubt volcano. The pilots managed to restart the engines.
The volcanic ash is not thought to pose any risk to public health, the BBC reported.