In April and May 2010 flights into and out of European airspace were heavily disrupted. What was the cause?

Ah I remember it well everyone trying to pronounce the name then resorted to the volcano!

Got stuck in Thessaloniki, flight to Berlin cancelled after 2 days, no flights out so waited 2 days with 100s to catch train to Athens, stuck there for 2 days, finally caught plane to Singapore, stuck there for 4 days, finally got home to Adelaide. What an adventure! Thanks 🌋😂

In Reykjavik I bought a t-shirt that says, "what part of (insert volcano name) do you not understand?"

Player Say what!?, my kinda tee shirt ... it's definitely a conversation starter

millwallmarty, of course the threat was real. Read about British Airways flight 009 in 1982 if you want to understand how catastrophic the ash cloud could have been.

I was delayed 1 day by the incident & unfortunately arrived few hours too late to say my goodbyes to my dying friend 😢

my husband amd I were on the last plane out of Europe for the US!

Player Say what!?, completely unrelated to the question but I saw a large obviously pregnant young lady wearing a t-shirt with a fat dinosaur on it that said “Preggersaurus”. I told her it was cool!