Everywhere in N Europe they are now flying (flightradar24.com). But over England a big empty space. What an absolute nonsense: nobody here wants to take responsibility for the decision, nothing to do with the technicalities of ash concentrations: look at the maps from VAAC/Met Office. Its just indecision, pure and simple.
Being the closest island from Iceland in the direction in which the wind is prevailing, it's not a big surprise that we get the worst of it.
Maybe its the days of not having a clue when i will fly again that's pickled my brain. But how can we have a Scottish FIR open the most Northern airspace that is first to be impacted but no other airspace opened. Is our data so accurate that we can open a airfield in the north such as Newcastle at 13:00 but not Manchester, Leeds, Doncaster? Come on.
Why don't you just look at the Met Office charts and think about it logically?