"The ash cloud, which has drifted from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland, forced officials to shut down airspace in Britain, Ireland, France and Scandinavia, causing further delays worldwide. The volcano is still spewing ash into the air, and authorities said they did not know when the airspace would reopen. All non-emergency flights to and from British airports were banned from noon Thursday until at least 8 a.m. Friday Eastern time. Swedish authorities said they would shut their airspace, and French officials shut down all flights to and from Paris and 23 other airports." - bob

Wow. - Paul Buchheit

And the trick question is: how do you pronounce the volcano's name? :) - Starepolsky smok

I suspect the volcano was named by a cat. - Private Sanjeev

Does Iceland get carbon credits for those flights? - Amit Patel

Britain was mad because all the tax dodgers who hid their money in Icelandic banks lost it in the Icelandic banking crisis, so they wrote an email: "SEND CASH". Unfortunately the Icelandic alphabet doesn't have a letter 'C', so they figured out a way to send ash. - Gabe

Gabe: Not commenting on the UK government's behavior, but I'm unsure where you heard the story about hiding money. Here's a more reliable source. It was mostly regular citizens and local authorities that got caught up in the crisis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Simon

Dislike. Our flight out of London tomorrow was canceled - Benjamin Golub