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Edition: U.S. Article Slideshow Save Email Print Reprints Most Popular Most Shared UPDATE 1-Volcanic ash relentless as tremors rock Iceland 18 Apr 2010 U.S. considers options to curb Iran's nuclear program 18 Apr 2010 Pressure builds to get Europe flying again 3:28am EDT Toyota expected to pay $16.4 million U.S. fine: source 1:49am EDT UPDATE 1-Carrie Underwood wins country music's top award 1:11am EDT Day care sends sick kids home unnecessarily: study 1:12am EDT 3D TVs new battleground for plasma, LCD display makers 12:52am EDT Majority of Americans distrust the government: survey 12:33am EDT UPDATE 1-Testing lung tumors tailors chemotherapy 18 Apr 2010 Time not ripe for China to end dollar peg: adviser 12:39am EDT Pressure builds to get Europe flying again Caroline Copley LONDON Mon Apr 19, 2010 3:28am EDT Factbox Factbox: European airports and airspace closed by ash cloud Sun, Apr 18 2010 Related News Economy impact to rise sharply if ash lingers 2:11am EDT Scenarios: Potential scenarios for volcano gas cloud crisis Sun, Apr 18 2010 IATA says volcano impact on airlines bigger than Sept. 11 3:28am EDT Denmark opens upper airspace for flights 3:19am EDT TUI Travel takes £20 million hit from travel chaos 2:50am EDT Finnish officials say to briefly open 2 airports 1:31am EDT Most French airports remain closed until Tuesday: PM Sun, Apr 18 2010 Italy reopens northern airspace from 9 a.m. EDT Monday Sun, Apr 18 2010 Austria's airports expected open from 7 a.m. EDT Monday Sun, Apr 18 2010 UK extends flight restrictions till Monday evening Sun, Apr 18 2010 Dutch airspace closure extended to 8 a.m. EDT on Monday Sun, Apr 18 2010 Dutch urge flexibility as KLM flies freight to Asia Sun, Apr 18 2010 Qantas says disruptions costing A$1.5 million per day 1:38am EDT < 1 / 3 > View Full Size LONDON (Reuters) - Officials hope to significantly increase flights at the start of Europe's new working week on Monday and the EU summoned ministers for talks as pressure builds for a solution to the 5-day-old air travel crisis. World From just over a fifth of flights taking to the air on Sunday, the figure could rise to up to a half on Monday, said the officials. Some European countries announced partial airspace reopenings but others kept no-fly decrees in place. The closure of most of Europe's airspace because of a huge cloud of ash from an Icelandic volcano has cost the airline industry hundreds of millions of dollars, millions of passengers have been stranded, and importers and exporters have been hit. The crisis has had a knock on effect across the world and its impact on everyday life in Europe has deepened. In Britain, companies reported staff had been unable to get back from Easter holidays abroad and hospitals said they were cancelling some operations because surgeons were stuck in far off places. A senior European Union official said the current situation was not sustainable, as airlines called for a review of no-fly decrees after conducting test flights at the weekend without any apparent problems from the ash cloud. "We cannot wait until the ash flows just disappear," said Transport Commissioner Siim Kallas, adding that he hoped 50 percent of European airspace would be risk-free on Monday. Spain's EU affairs minister Diego Lopez Garrido told reporters after a meeting at European aviation control agency Eurocontrol: "The forecast is that there will be half of flights possibly operating (on Monday)." Italy and Austria said they would reopen affected airports on Monday. Only 5,000 flights took place in European airspace on Sunday, compared with 24,000 normally, Eurocontrol said. It said 63,000 flights had been canceled since Thursday. EU transport ministers will discuss the crisis in a video conference on Monday that Spain has called in its capacity as the 27-nation bloc's president. "We can examine the results of the test flights and look and see whether there is any updating of the regulatory structure which might make it possible for flights to take place," British Transport Minister Andrew Adonis told BBC television. Dutch state broadcaster NOS quoted Transport Minister Camiel Eurlings as saying Europe's response to the ash cloud had been too severe, and that the United States did not completely close its airspace in response to similar eruptions. The Dutch airline KLM, which has flown several test flights, said most European airspace was safe despite the plume of ash, and dispatched two commercial freight flights to Asia on Sunday. Volcanic ash is abrasive and can strip off aerodynamic surfaces and paralyze an aircraft engine. Aircraft electronics and windshields can also be damaged. RULE BOOK Senior Eurocontrol official Brian Flynn said the International Civil Aviation Organization published rules that needed to be adhered to worldwide, and guidelines to interpret at continental level. "One could say that the guidelines are interpreted slightly more rigorously in Europe than in the United States, when it comes to responsibilities of air traffic control agencies and pilots," he told Reuters. Iceland said tremors from the volcano had grown more intense but that the column of ash rising from it had eased back to 4-5 km (2.5-3 miles) from as high as 11 km when it began erupting on Wednesday from below the Eyjafjallajokull glacier. Weather experts said wind patterns meant the ash plume was not likely to move far until later in the week. The shutdown poses a growing problem for airlines, estimated to be losing $200 million a day, and for the millions of travelers stranded worldwide. For some businesses dependent on fast air freight, the impact has been immediate. Kenya's flower exporters said they were already losing up to $2 million a day. Kenya accounts for about a third of flower imports into the European Union. The air travel disruption is the worst since the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington in 2001, when U.S. airspace was closed for three days. Britain said it was considering using the navy and requisitioning merchant ships to ferry home citizens stranded abroad. The response to the crisis is threatening to become an issue in the campaign for Britain's May 6 election. The British travel agents' association Abta said it had a rough estimate that about 150,000 Britons were stranded abroad. "At no time in living memory has British airspace been shut down and affected this many people," said an Abta spokeswoman. The crisis is having an impact on international diplomacy, with Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani becoming the latest leader to abandon a visit to Europe. He was supposed to begin a trip to Paris, Brussels and Madrid on Monday. For travelers, businesses and financial markets, the biggest problem is the sheer unpredictability of the situation. Economists say they stand by their predictions for European growth, hoping normal air travel can resume this week. But if European airspace were closed for months, one economist estimated lost travel and tourism revenue alone could knock 1-2 percentage points off regional growth. European growth had been predicted at 1-1.5 percent for 2010. "That would mean a lot of European countries wouldn't get any growth this year," said Chatham House senior economic fellow Vanessa Rossi. "But the problem is it is incredibly hard to predict what will happen. Even the geologists can't tell us." Disruption spread to Asia, where dozens of Europe-bound flights were canceled and hotels from Beijing to Singapore strained to accommodate stranded passengers. In Tokyo, Japan Airlines said it had canceled 44 European flights so far and All Nippon Airways put its cancellations at 27. Many U.S. airline flights to and from Europe were canceled. Russian airports remained open, routing planes to North America over the North Pole to avoid the ash cloud. (Reporting by London, Geneva, Dublin, Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, Reykjavik, Washington, Frankfurt and Berlin newsrooms; Editing by Ralph Gowling) World More from Reuters Asian stocks, commodities slip as profit takers pile in SYDNEY (Reuters) - Asian stocks suffered their biggest loss in 10 weeks on Monday after U.S. regulators filed fraud charges against Goldman Sachs and China clamped down harder on property speculation, giving investors an excuse to take profits after markets had rallied to multi-month highs. 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