Gentlemen,
I am involved with an airline that has extensive operations in and around Iceland.
For all the experts on here who complain about government departments producing "no-fly " areas, here is the bottom line.
You or your airline are allowed to fly into any level of Ash you want, PROVIDED, you have submitted to them, a SAFETY case for doing so. In other words, if you are so confident that you will not be endangering your self, your aircraft and your passengers, put your money where your mouth is and make the submission.
I am prepared to bet that your Accountable manager will no be as " gung ho" as some of you appear with regard to the risks involved.
The UK CAA have publicly stated that NO airline has submitted a safety case to fly in Red Zone Ash. We, along with many other airlines have submitted a safety case to fly in low and medium level Ash areas and had them approved with an increase inspection requirement 9namely after every flight)
The reason why RYR were not allowed to fly yesterday, ultimately came down to the IAA saying " You havn't presented us a Safety case for flying in the red Zone"
And this lovely notion of " no-one has died from flying in Volcanic Ash" is typical Dead Body Economics. have you an acceptable number in your head ...would 200 be a good number or bad number?