A majority of Europe still remains as strict no-fly zones on Monday due to Iceland volcano’s ash fall, even after test flights surveying the vicinity’s airspace have been deemed successful.

The ash clouds resulting from the eruption in Iceland brought down most of Europe’s air traffic, forcing the region to fall into an air travel standstill, and leaving thousands of passengers stranded. Test flights were conducted recently to see how the remaining ash fall since the eruption was to effect air travel. The test flights have been able to land and reach their destinations without much interference from the ash, but air traffic authorities have still not given the go-ahead to allow air traffic to continue.

Peter Hartman, the head of the Royal Dutch Airlines KLM shared that successful test flights don’t necessarily mean that all public traffic would be allowed on the spot. True enough, the National Air Traffic Services shares that “conditions around the movement of the layers of the volcanic ash cloud over the UK remain dynamic,” suggesting that there is still uncertainty in the ash fall’s effects on aircraft.

Reports on Monday share that Iceland’s volcano sent new tremors recently as well, however, the ash cloud that blanketed the vicinity’s airspace had significantly lowered.

The regions below have imposed the following restrictions on air travel:

• Britain : no-fly at least until 1800 GMT Monday
• France : no-fly at least until Tuesday morning
• Austria : no-fly at least until 0400 GMT Monday
• Denmark : no-fly at least until 1200 GMT Monday
• Switzerland : no-fly at least until 1200 GMT Monday
• Belgium : no-fly at least until 0600 GMT Monday
• Ireland : no-fly at least until 1200 GMT Monday
• Italy : no-fly at least until 0500 GMT Monday
• Netherlands : no-fly at least until 0600 GMT Monday
• Germany : no-fly at least until 1800 GMT Monday
• Poland : six airports (including Warsaw) have reopened for flights
• Norway : most airports have reopened for flights
• Russia : airspace open
• Spain : airspace open
• Macedonia : airspace open

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