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Following a review of the latest Met Office information, Nats advises that restrictions preventing flights in controlled airspace over England and Wales will remain in place until 1900 UK time on Sunday 18 April at the earliest.
There may be localised exceptions for domestic flights within Scotland or flights to and from Northern Ireland.

Keep up with the latest information from Britain's air traffic control here.

Nats added that flights in Northern Ireland and islands off Scotland's west coast to and from Scotland's main airports will continue to be allowed until 1800 GMT "subject to individual co-ordination".


From 1800 GMT "Scottish airspace may be able to accept domestic flights within Scotland and Northern/southern Ireland, and North Atlantic flights to/from airports in Scotland and Northern Ireland," it said.


Live arrivals information for Edinburgh Airport is availablehere.

Live arrivals information for Glasgow Airport is available here.

Live flight information for Prestwick Airport is available here.


Live flight information for Belfast International Airport is here.

Airports in England will see little if any activity today.


Live arrivals information at London Heathrow is available here.



Live flight information for easyJet is available here.

Live flight information for Manchester Airport can be found here.


Live flight information for Birmingham Airport is available here.


Information on Ryanair flights is available here
and for Easyjet here.

For British Airways click here.

Met Office updates on the weather can be found here.


Here is the latest travel information from around the continent.
Paris airports were expected to remain closed.
Germany has closed 11 of the country's 16 international airports, including in Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Cologne and Düsseldorf.
Poland closed the majority of its airspace on Friday. Balice airport, which is meant to host the majority of world leaders attending Polish President Lech Kaczynski's funeral on Sunday, has closed.
Belarus and Ukraine have shutdown.
Finland has shut down all of its airports while Lithuania has also closed its entire airspace.
Danish airspace is due to remain shut until at least 3am (BST) on Saturday.
The Czech Republic has closed most of its airspace.
Sofia airport in Bulgaria has also shut down.
The ash cloud was heading towards Moscow but Russian aviation authorities had yet to take any action.
Austria closed its airspace, the country's aviation authority confirmed.
In Italy - Rome's Fiumicino airport has cancelled 34 flights to northern Europe. Alitalia has cancelled all its flights to London, Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels.
Airlines across Asia have been forced to cancel or delay most of its flights to destinations across Europe. Japan Airlines, Korean Air, Singapore Airlines and Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific all cancelled flights to Europe.
Meanwhile, Sweden has begun to gradually reopen its airspace after closing it for much of Thursday.

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