{"id":534428,"date":"2010-04-19T14:20:28","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T18:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/?p=16805"},"modified":"2010-04-19T14:20:28","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T18:20:28","slug":"a-break-in-the-volcanic-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/534428","title":{"rendered":"A Break in the Volcanic Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI Thousands of stranded air travelers here in Dubai are hopeful Monday as it appears the air travel restrictions in Europe due to the Iceland volcanic ash cloud are easing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Over 80,000 passengers for the region\u2019s biggest airline, Emirates, have been effected by the disruption.\u00a0\u00a0 Emirates management says it has been losing $10 million dollars a day during this period.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That includes covering hotel and food costs for 6,000 travelers here in Dubai caught out in the first days of the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The combination of successful test flights over the weekend by European carriers and the lessening and dissipation of the ash cloud has led to the improvement in the travel picture.<\/p>\n<p>Close to a third of air traffic was allowed to operate Monday in Europe.\u00a0\u00a0 And air flight bans in the UK, France and Germany will be eased starting Tuesday. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Still, the crisis is far from over.\u00a0\u00a0 Total lifting of air travel restrictions in Europe has not happened yet.\u00a0\u00a0 And it\u2019s estimated it will take days before the thousands impacted will make it to their destinations.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, stuck travelers are making the most of it in warm sunny Dubai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI Thousands of stranded air travelers here in Dubai are hopeful Monday as it appears the air travel restrictions in Europe due to the Iceland volcanic ash cloud are easing.\u00a0 Over 80,000 passengers for the region\u2019s biggest airline, Emirates, have been effected by the disruption.\u00a0\u00a0 Emirates management says it has been losing $10 million dollars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4512,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4512"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}