Just over a year after the ash cloud from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano caused an expensive and chaotic shutdown of air travel across much of Europe, an different volcano in Iceland, Grimsvoetn, is erupting.
As the ash cloud from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano clears, travel and tourism businesses on both sides of the Atlantic are tallying the cost. Find out how the massive aviation disruption has affected those industries.
As airspace slowly reopens in parts of Europe and some airlines restart their service, the continent's aviation industry and the E.U. are trying to adjust to the historic economic disruptions brought on by ash from the Iceland volcano.
Airlines aren't the only industry to suffer from Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull's hissing fit. Publishing is getting burned, too, as authors can't get to book fairs and book tours, and book shipments to customers overseas get delayed.
Following the eruption of a volcano under Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull glacier, European air travel has been paralyzed. But the natural disaster has been a boon for other companies, especially the ferries that zip around European waters.
