It's true that the Volcano is far away from Santiago... but winds maake the cloud move very quick ! (europe know that)
Right now, the operations from Santiago to Argentina, have been affected. they cancelled some of the flights, since the cloud arrived abeam Santiago (SCEL) this afternoon on the Argentinian side of the Andes... many flights to B.Aires have been cancelled already... Operators are taking detours around it... LAN started rerouting his flights to Mendoza, Cordoba, Buenos Aires, Montevideo and crossing the ANDES on the north side of Santiago (via ASIMO), but later on (around 5 o'clock LT) they started cancelling flights.
I had a roundtrip flight to Puerto Montt this morning, and the views of the volcano were amazing... we are a tiny thing in this world compare to nature...
saludos
