Brussels: Eurocontrol air traffic agency says there will be at least 15,000 flights over Europe on Wednesday, with the likelihood that the total number for the day may be much higher.
Kyla Evans, spokeswoman for the air traffic control agency, says about 28,000 flights are normally scheduled on the weekday.
Flights across Europe are being gradually normalized after nearly a week of airspace blockage caused by the ash cloud from the volcano in southern Iceland.
But some restrictions remained in force Wednesday morning over parts of Britain, Ireland and France, as well as over parts of central Europe and the Baltic states.
Passengers arrive at London's Heathrow Airport after flying in on a British Airways flight from Vancouver, the first to land at the airport after Britain's skies reopened Tuesday April 20, 2010.
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A pilot gives the thumps up to as gets the go ahead to leave Belfast City Airport, Northern Ireland, Tuesday, April, 20, 2010.
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Antge Blumer, left, and Katja Rieck, second from right, wait for their husbands, who just flew in from Paris on an Air France flight, with their children, Finn Blumer, 3, second from left, and Greta Rieck, 3, at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Tuesday, April 20, 2010. Both of their husbands' flights were delayed by an active volcano in Iceland.
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