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DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland shut several of its airports and Britain imposed a no-fly zone on parts of its airspace on Sunday as another cloud of ash from a volcano in Iceland looked set to disrupt European air travel again.
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The Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) said three northwestern airports were closed from early Sunday and hub Dublin would shut from 2 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT) until at least 4 a.m. EDT (0800 GMT) on Monday morning.
North Atlantic overflights through Irish-controlled airspace remain unaffected despite the cloud drifting over the country. Cork and Kerry, as well as Shannon -- an important stopover for flights to the United States -- remain open until further notice.
Ash spewed from the same volcano in Iceland wreaked havoc on European air traffic last month.
"The outlook (for) later tomorrow looks better, I wouldn't be too optimistic for the early part of the day but the later part of the day looks better and as the week goes on, it should improve," IAA Chief Executive Eamon Brennan told national broadcaster RTE.
Western airports Sligo, Donegal and Ireland West (Knock), shut earlier on Sunday, will remain closed until 7 p.m. EDT (1100 GMT).
Britain's National Air Traffic Service said earlier a no-fly zone would be imposed over parts of Scotland and England between 8 a.m. EDT (1200 GMT) and 2 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT) on Sunday due to the volcanic ash but London airports will not be affected.
Manchester, Liverpool, Doncaster, Carlisle, Humberside and East Midlands airports fall within the no-fly zone, as do all airports in Northern Ireland, NATS said. Airports in parts of Scotland and the Isle of Man will also be affected.
The government has warned that parts of British airspace might have to close until Tuesday with different parts including the southeast, where Europe's busiest airport Heathrow is located, likely to be closed at different times.
The volcano under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier in Iceland is continuing to erupt with no signs of the explosive activity about to end and an ash plume reaching heights of 25,000 feet, Britain's Met Office said.
"Winds are expected to blow mainly from the northwest for a time over the weekend with the risk of ash affecting some parts of the UK," it said.
"However, winds are predicted to swing into a south westerly direction by the middle of next week, which would take most of any ash away from the British Isles."
TEST FLIGHT
Elsewhere in Europe, German airlines' association said no restriction of German air traffic was expected due to the ash, and German airlines were operating flights as normal. Airline Lufthansa said it was conducting a test flight to collect data over Europe to measure the ash concentration.
In the Netherlands, an Amsterdam Schiphol airport spokeswoman said there were no expected closures in Dutch airspace.
Much of Europe's airspace was closed for six days in mid-April over fears that ash from the Icelandic volcano would cause aircraft to crash, causing havoc for airlines as some 100,000 flights were canceled and stranding millions of passengers. Airlines lost $1.7 billion, the International Air Transport Association said.
Since then ash has periodically forced the short-term closure of parts of airspace in countries across Europe.
British Transport Minister Philip Hammand said on Saturday that from now on five-day -- rather than the previous 18-hour -- ash prediction charts would be made available to airlines and the public on the Met Office forecaster's website.
(Additional reporting by Kylie MacLellan in London, Maria Sheahan in Frankfurt and Amsterdam bureau; Editing by Reed Stevenson)
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