Despite growing pressure from pilots and airlines will follow the Federal Government to the Council of Experts for the time being and stick to the closure of German airspace. “Security must be weighted higher as business interests, said Federal Transport Minister Peter Ramsauer (CSU) in Munich on Sunday evening. “As long as there are still doubts about the safety of aviation, I will not give flight clearance.”  However, we will seek flexible solutions, Ramsauer secured to the aviation industry. Currently, step together a crisis every three hours to assess the situation again. After a volcanic eruption in Iceland at the weekend the sky in much of Europe was blocked. Experts fear because of volcanic ash into the atmosphere engine damage.
Unclear, according to the Federal Ministry of Transport is the duration of the flight ban. The Icelandic volcano is still active. In addition to that rule an unfavorable weather conditions, which makes the transport of the ash cloud to Central Europe is likely, it said in a statement the ministry on Sunday evening. Therefore it must be assumed that the impairment of air transport still persist.
Ramsauer said that he regarded the issue of airspace closure currently not much scope for the government. Berlin was bound, like other European governments and the international regulatory framework for large volcanic eruptions and the Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre estimates of in London. “If that’s endured, but we must check whether the existing regulations are still relevant,” said the minister. The criticism from airlines to the closure of German airspace because of the volcanic ash cloud dismissed the minister: “I take with anger, because that is trying to put pressure on me.” He bears the responsibility for security in German airspace. And only when I am sure that nothing happens, we will release the German airspace again. “Those who now criticize the closure would be in an accident the first to include it would take for it to account.
Ramsauer same time appealed to the provinces, after the lifting of flight ban, “as flexible as possible from night flights depart.” It had done everything, and then the resulting congestion in the air quickly dissolved. Passengers affected by flight cancellations advised Ramsauer, the conversation with their airline to search. “I am assuming that the airlines” as fair as possible to deal with it, “said the minister.