Time to go home. Thousands of hostages of the Icelandic volcano has taken their flights

Korrespondent.net - 22/04/2010 13:02 GMT

PHOTO REPORT. This Wednesday, April 21st, the majority of European countries allowed and resumed flights that were temporarily stopped because of the danger of the volcanic ash cloud that had covered the Old World last week. Finally, thousands of passengers that had been nature's hostages for a week could take their way home. According to flight officials, on April 21st almost 3/4 of usual passenger traffic was served. It is expected that all air flights will have been on schedule till Thursday. The eruption of the Eyjafjalla has lead to the unprecedented air transportation collapse that is considered to be the most considerable since the WWII. Almost 6 million people were involved and suffered from the collapse to some extent. Losses of the air carriers are estimated to be around USD 2 billions.

20 photos: Time to go home. Thousands of hostages of the Icelandic volcano has taken their flights.

Translation: Kostyantyn Safonov