Airport on standby for late flights but ash cloud could be over us today

AIRPORT staff will work late this weekend if that can help hundreds of passengers stranded by flight cancellations due to volcanic ash.

Flying ceased from Guernsey Airport at 7pm yesterday. A review at 9am will decide if any flights will operate today.

'There is an expectation that there will be a lot of ash in the air. The bulk of the ash cloud is going to be sat right over the top of the islands,' said airport deputy director Simon Macphail. He said staff would do what they could to clear the backlog quickly.

The National Air Traffic Service said flight restrictions would remain in place until at least 7am today.

But Met Office forecasts show the plume of ash from Eyjafjallajokull will still be in the jetstream above the islands today.

Some inter-island flights resumed at 10.30am yesterday, with Aurigny and Blue Islands running a revised schedule, but it was unclear when a full service would resume.

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