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Factbox: European airports and airspace closed by ash cloud
(Reuters) - Large parts of Europe enforced no-fly rulings for a fifth day Monday because of a huge ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano that has caused the worst air travel chaos since the September 11 attacks.
Here is a list of countries as of 1515 GMT Monday and their airspace status:
* Denotes new or updated item
AUSTRIA - Airports open as of 0400 GMT Monday.
BELGIUM - Airspace closed until Monday 1800 GMT. Airlines have been allowed to bring planes back to Belgium without passengers or freight.
BOSNIA - Airports open.
* BRITAIN - British airspace will start to reopen to flights from 0600 GMT Tuesday.
* BULGARIA - All airspace and airports open.
CZECH REPUBLIC - Airspace and airports open as of 1000 GMT Monday.
DENMARK - Airspace open for flights above 10,800 meters (35,500 feet). Airspace below this height closed all Monday.
* ESTONIA - Airspace closed at least until Monday 1800 GMT. Transit flights permitted above an altitude of 6.5 kilometers.
FINLAND - The main Helsinki-Vantaa airport will open at 1200 GMT for at least eight hours until 2000 GMT. Regional Turku and Tampere-Pirkkala airports open until 2100 GMT
FRANCE - Bordeaux, Marseille, Nice, Toulouse and several other southwestern airports will remain open until at least 1300 GMT Monday. Airports north of Nice-Bordeaux line remain closed at least until Tuesday morning. Air France said a test flight from Paris to Toulouse Sunday had gone without problems; tests continuing.
GERMANY - Airspace will likely remain closed until 0200 CET
(0000 GMT).
HUNGARY - Airspace fully open as of 1000 GMT Monday.
IRELAND - Airspace closed until at least 1200 GMT Monday. Ryanair, Europe's largest low-cost carrier, canceled all flights to and from northern Europe until at least mid-Wednesday. Aer Lingus canceled all flights Monday.
ITALY - Northern airspace up to 6,700 meters (22,000 feet) re-closed until at least 0600 GMT Tuesday, after briefly opening airspace for two hours Monday.
* LATVIA - Airspace closed at least until Monday 1800 GMT. Transit flights permitted above an altitude of six kilometers.
LITHUANIA - Airspace open.
LUXEMBOURG - Air space closed until Monday 1800 GMT.
MONTENEGRO - Airports open.
NETHERLANDS - All European flights into and out of Amsterdam are canceled until 1800 GMT. Intercontinental flights out canceled until 1800 GMT.
* NORWAY - Air traffic open in most of Norway, including Oslo Gardermoen Airport, and looks set to stay open until midnight based on latest forecast, airport authority Avinor says. Only limited areas in northern Norway are closed for traffic.
* POLAND - Four Polish airports including Warsaw and Krakow have reopened.
ROMANIA - Main Bucharest airport open from 1200 GMT Monday after two-day closure. May fully reopen airspace Tuesday.
RUSSIA - All airports open. Aeroflot is flying to the United States via the North Pole.
SERBIA - Airports open.
SLOVAKIA - Eastern airspace open, as is the rest of its airspace for flights above 7,500 meters. Bratislava airport closed.
SLOVENIA - Slovenia expected another cloud of ash to reach its airspace around 1200 GMT Monday. It was then likely to close its airspace again, after opening it Sunday night.
SPAIN - 17 airports open.
SWEDEN - Airspace open for flights north of a line stretching from the southern city of Gothenburg to Stockholm. Scandinavian Airlines resuming domestic flights in unrestricted airspace as well as flights between Stockholm and Oslo.
SWITZERLAND - Flight ban until at least 0600 GMT Tuesday. No instrument-guided flights will be allowed to land or take off at Swiss airports. Transit permitted at an altitude above 6,400 meters (21,000 feet).
TURKEY - All airports open. Planes flying out of the Black Sea cities of Samsun, Sinop and Zonguldak have been advised not to fly higher than 6,000 meters.
UKRAINE - Kiev's Borispol airport open.
(Compiled by London Editorial Reference Unit)
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