Scottish airspace reopens

A trickle of passengers arrived at airports in Scotland today for the first flights after the skies above parts of the UK cleared of volcanic ash.

Scottish airspace re-opened at 7am after air traffic control company Nats lifted restrictions.

But there were only a handful of domestic flights, mainly to the islands, despite the lifting of the ban.

Glasgow Airport had been the scene of a brief flurry of flights that landed and took off on Friday and Saturday, allowing some school geography field trips to return, before the airspace was once again shut by Nats.

Today, the airport was once again one of the few open after the volcanic eruption in Iceland pumped ash into the UK’s airspace.

At 6.10am only a handful of passengers were checking in at the airport for the 7am departure to Stornoway.

The departure board listed departures to Islay, Campbeltown and Benbecula.

Some of the check-in desks were manned, but there were no queues and international departures for Tenerife and Amsterdam were listed as cancelled today.

The arrivals board displayed one flight arrival from Reykjavik in Iceland this morning at 11.05am today.

Other airports across northern England could allow flights to operate today but air traffic control company Nats said conditions were “rapidly changing” with a new ash cloud moving towards the UK.