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Pretty useful. My mother is stuck here in Bay Area till at least Wednesday, as her flight to Moscow through Munich is postponed.

What amazes me is how poorly Lufthansa (and possibly other airlines) are handling this. There is no way on their website to check for e.g. status of the itinerary given the original confirmation code, and their call centers simply cannot handle the load.

Any HN'ers stuck in any of these places?

EDIT: Adding related article - http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/world/europe/18ash.html

I’m stuck in Europe. No, wait, I’m living here :)

(We were promised beautiful sunsets but I didn’t see any. Nothing interesting to see in southern Germany except perfect blue sky without any contrails. I guess a good many researchers are happy[1].)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrail#September_11.2C_2001_c...

I noticed the blue sky too. Amazing!

What I find incredibly amusing is that the airport in Iceland is still operational...

I think the volcanic ash is going with the mostly easterly winds

Yeah, regardless of any sensible reasoning it's just funny that the country to blame for it all (sorta) still has an airport.

Tracking the European Flights Cancellations - Interactive Feature