If you take a look at the Mumbai airport departures site and choose London as a destination Half of todays flights are cancelled and half appear to running on schedule. Don`t totally understand it. The cloud of ash has spread right across most of europe now.I wouldn`t like to be in your friends shoes. There is now a backlog of 4 days of people!
Just checked departures again and all flights to London are cancelled.

There wont be any semblance of normality with airline schedules until at least the weekend next. The priority is to return stranded passengers to their destinations.BA in its wisdom have turned off all their phones, so dont bother calling all you get is a pre-recorded message telling you try their web site, which crashed in Thursday night. They are trying the old trick of if you cannot get through you might re-book instead of asking for a complete refund which you are entitled to under EU rules.The management of BA are complete idiots.The Met outlook is makes grim reading in that their predictions are that the cloud is getting thicker due to North Westerly winds picking up more volcanic dust from recent eruptions over the weekend.Fighting broke at Delhi's airport amongst passengers waiting for flights. Thousands stranded there. don't have any information regarding Mumbai.Passengers are stranded in Doha, Abu Dhabi and Kuwait City. Singapore and Hong Kong. Frankfurt much to the German credit placed camp beds with blankets and gave out hot drinks and sandwiches to stranded passengers. At Heathrow and Gatwick they did nothing and local hotels instead of charging the usual £50, put up their prices to £200 per night.BAA just washed their hands of the situation like BA did.So which sceduled airline do i like. Well certainly not BA who i have christened British Ars*holes at their best.

I should be at Heathrow checking in for my Kingfisher flight to Mumbai, instead I am cooking roast chicken.
Southall Travel would not confirm that the flights were cancelled but the Kingfisher web site confirms that all to day & tomorrows flights are cancelled.
So at 6.00 tomorrow morning I'm off to Loch Lomand, at least I won;t have to worry about prickly heat.

Which scheduled airline do I prefer? The one that can get me to my destination in one piece, and has the authority and audacity to ignore this EUSSR blanket ban on air travel and fly UNDER the volcanic ash cloud! Oh.... sorry..... I hear no-one?!

Their time will come to pass. That's all I can say!

J x

Try Aloe Vera for prickly heat,. Beleive it or not, thats what I am using for sun burn in the u.k. right now!!!!

Sorry but Aloe Vera (and i've extracted aloe vera directly from the plant itself in India) does not compensate for the lack of flights from UK to India!

I'm getting to the stage where I'm looking at traveling on freight ships, as an alternative viable option, to flying to India. I know you said no, my darling husband, that there would be pirates and other undesirables along the way, you would prefer that I wait for a flight, but how long is this flight ban going to be? If I knew the EUSSR they would delay flights for as long as possible.

Speak to you tomorrow. Love Julia xxx

I knew "Hello Vera" would turn up don't forget to tell them to keep it in the fridge.

I wish I could provide you with a flight but I am sure you would not want to risk flying through a blanket of shrapnel. This is what it is to a plane. Hope it will clear soon for you and all the others stranded all round the world.