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FACTBOX ash cloud affects airspace, airports in Europe

Here is a list of affected countries for 2120 GMT on Tuesday and the status of airspace:

* denotes new or updated item

AUSTRIA – Airports open at 0300 GMT on Monday.

* BELGIUM – Belgium began allowing landings (the first came from Turkey near 0740 GMT) and is intended to allow some departures from from 1200 GMT.

BOSNIA – Airports open.

* GREAT BRITAIN – Aerospace reopened at 2100 GMT.

BULGARIA – All the airspace and airports are open.

* CZECH REPUBLIC – The airspace and airports are open from 1000 GMT on Monday. The situation will be reassessed at 1000 GMT on Wednesday.

* DENMARK – will open much of its airspace from 0000 GMT on Wednesday until at least 0600 GMT, allowing traffic from Copenhagen and at least four other airports.

* ESTONIA – Airspace open until at least 0000 GMT on Wednesday.

* FINLAND – Airspace remain closed until at least 0600 GMT on Wednesday.

* FRANCE – Air France plans to meet all long-haul flights on Wednesday, some flights to northern Europe remain suspended.

* GERMANY – The airspace restrictions will remain in office1000until 0000 GMT on Wednesday.

* HUNGARY – The airspace is completely open, said the traffic authority air around 0800 GMT on Tuesday.

* REPUBLIC OF IRELAND – airspace reopened.

* ITALY – The airspace has reopened fully.

* LATVIA – Open Aviation Area.

* LITHUANIA – The air space will remain open until at least 1800 GMT, when you take a new decision.

* LUXEMBOURG – Luxembourg”s airport reopened at 0800 GMT, and the flights would begin at 0900 GMT.

* MOLDOVA – Moldova, located between Ukraine and Romania, resumed international flights at 0730 GMT.

MONTENEGRO – Airports open.

* NETHERLANDS – passenger flights began on Monday. The night flights were resumed on Tuesday.

* NORWAY – The airport authority Avinor reopened the entire Norwegian airspace for commercial traffic on Tuesday. The airspace will remain open until midnight GMT.

* POLAND – Polish airspace would be reopened at 0500 GMT on Wednesday.

ROMANIA – Airspace reopened completely.

RUSSIA – All airports open. United States Aeroflot flies via the North Pole.

SERBIAN – Airports open.

* SLOVAKIA – Airports and air space open from 1240 GMT Monday. The situation will be reassessed at midnight GMT on Wednesday.

* SLOVENIA – Slovenian airspace was opened at 1000 GMT on Tuesday. Has been partially closed since 0200 GMT on Tuesday.

SPAIN – 17 airports open.

* SWEDEN – Open Aviation Area for flights north of a line that stretches from Stromstad to Stockholm. Stockholm Arlanda Airport is closed until at least Wednesday morning. It allows high-altitude flights over southern Sweden.

* SWITZERLAND – The Geneva and Zurich airports reopened on Tuesday morning although some flights were canceled in both places.

TURKEY – All airports open. The planes that fly off the cities of Samdun, Sinop and Zonguldak in the Black Sea have been warned not to fly higher than 6,000 meters.

UKRAINE – Kiev Borispol airport is open.

(Compiled by the Editorial Reference Unit in London, editing by Derek Caney Spanish)

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