"The safety and wellbeing of our passengers and crew is easyJet's highest priority.‎

"‎Now that the Icelandic authorities have issued a red alert about the possible eruption of Bardarbunga easyJet is putting its contingency plans into action.‎

"Should there be an eruption easyJet will work with its partners: Nicarnica, the Icelandic team in FutureVolc, NILU (Norwegian Institute for Air Research) and Airbus to ensure that ash from it is detected and charted from space, using infra red cameras on European weather satellites, or through the potential airborne deployment of the AVOID ash detection technology.

"easyJet will use this and other data provided by the authorities to determine what, if any, changes it should make to its flying programme.

"As things stand there are no changes to easyJet's flying programme, including flights to and from Iceland. Passengers will be kept fully up to date through easyjet.com"

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