GERMANY: Frankfurt and Cologne/Bonn airports closed because of volcano ash fallout

Record ID: 572919

  • Title: GERMANY: Frankfurt and Cologne/Bonn airports closed because of volcano ash fallout
  • Date: 17th April 2010
  • Summary: MOTHER HOLDING CHILD
  • Embargoed: 2nd May 2010 13:00
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  • Location: Germany
  • Country: Germany
  • Topics: Travel / Tourism,Transport
  • Reuters ID: LVAECK070Q2FYDXMEBJA9TXS6E9M
  • Story Text: Germany's largest airport, Frankfurt closed on Friday (April 16) as a result of a huge ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano that is over northern Europe.
    Twelve of Germany's international airports have been closed including Frankfurt, Cologne/Bonn, Duesseldorf, Berlin and Hamburg.
    On a normal day some 1400 planes take off and land from Frankfurt.
    It remains unclear when normal air traffic will resume.
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