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Good... then lets just cross our fingers that the vulcano will show mercy.

Yeah, what a f#cking coincidence with this vulcano terror but this cloud might be gone in a few days or is this vulcano still scattering ashes in the air?

It's still erupting full force but it might stop anytime... or not... there's no way of knowing it seems. I guess the wind also matters.

It's good to know that at least there won't be any strike next week.

It all depends on the volcano and the winds now, problem is that the cloud is moving south...fuck, can you believe all this shit is happening THIS week?

The fucker is still erupting

I read that even if the airports open next week the cancelled flights of this week will be first in priority.

Delays and chaos always follow flight cancellations and now tens of thousands of passengers are stranded all over the world and want to get home immediately.

It's gonna take a miracle now. Flight companies sound awfully optimistic but that's because they have to. The worst case scenario is unthinkable for them because it means their doom. They are talking about planes in the air on Monday as the soonest, which is because there is no way of telling anything any further than Monday. Tomorrow it will probably be Tuesday as the soonest and on Sunday it will be Wednesday as the soonest and so on. Unless that miracle happens of course, which it eventually will but we have to be incredibly lucky for it to happen just within a few days.

Still, the flights that are being cancelled these days will be the first in the priority. And we're talking about hundrends of flights.That means that if the atmosphere is clear on Monday, the flights that were cancelled last Wednesday will be made first, then all those that were cancelled on Thursday and so on. I don't think it's realistic to believe that we're gonna be able to land on german ground before Friday/Saturday to say the least.

Yes, I'm not pessimistic very often, but I feel that chances are probably very slim that airports will be open by the time the festival starts. Question is: is it worth taking the 14 hour trip by car just to find out that half the bill has been cancelled?

Khnud wrote: Question is: is it worth taking the 14 hour trip by car just to find out that half the bill has been cancelled?

For me, certainly not. It's up to the organizers to decide if the fest will be cancelled or at least postponed for a week or so, the latter doesn't seem very seem very likely to happen, I assume most bands are not on tour, they have their day jobs and will have to get back to their country asap.

I think we can feel confident KIT organizers will let us know beforehand if the festival is cancelled or if half the billing is cancelled or if anything is cancelled at all.

i am still optimistic about this,and imagine im flying wednesday.i have to be.The Elder Edda erupting is Odin's defiance of Satan incarnate in the form of Leviathan Thysiren

Khnud wrote:Question is: is it worth taking the 14 hour trip by car just to find out that half the bill has been cancelled?

I would go even if half the bill were to be cancelled. I'll still have 2/3 the fun, meeting old comrades, the Metal Market etc...
If flying is out of the question it depends though.. Driving there will be exhausting, but not 100% out of the question for me personally (We drove to HOA last year..)
Better start looking into train/buss alternatives..

I too would go for half the billing if it was possible. Hell, I could imagine driving too if we had to!

I just realized I have 230 euros worth of records paid and reserved to collect at KIT.