{"id":5044,"date":"2010-05-06T06:25:39","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T10:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=5044"},"modified":"2010-05-06T06:25:39","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T10:25:39","slug":"icelandic-ash-cloud-threatens-european-skies-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/f1-general\/icelandic-ash-cloud-threatens-european-skies-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Icelandic ash cloud threatens European skies again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The famous and unpronounceable Icelandic volcano could be set to once again disturb the travel plans of the formula one world.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>European airports ground to a halt due to the dangerous ash cloud nearly three weeks ago, stranding the sport&#8217;s travelling circus in China.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday and early on Thursday, it emerged that the ash is threatening to once again drift over the north of Europe, and multiple British airports have already had flights cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>When contacted, the European air traffic agency Eurocontrol admitted that hundreds of other flights across Europe could also be affected.<\/p>\n<p>The Civil Aviation Authority said main airports serving London have not yet been disrupted, but the Icelandic Met Office warns that the volcanic eruptions &#8220;will continue at full force in the next days&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>However, the situation is now far less severe for F1, in the wake of the initial &#8216;flyaway&#8217; segment of the 2010 calendar.<\/p>\n<p>The bulk of the equipment is transported by the teams to European venues by road, even if many of the personnel travel by plane for convenience.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The famous and unpronounceable Icelandic volcano could be set to once again disturb the travel plans of the formula one world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[53],"tags":[1530,5261,5340,1529],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5045,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5044\/revisions\/5045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}