Grimsvotn volcano
© Halldora Kristen Unnarsdottir / APGrimsvotn volcano
Just one year after a volcanic eruption decimated the air travel network across Europe for nearly a month, another volcano in Iceland has decided to erupt. Will this new eruption bring European air travel to its knees again? The Los Angeles Times reports that Iceland's airports were closed Sunday and trans-Atlantic flights were being diverted around that country's airspace. Last year it was the Eyjafjallajokull volcano and now it is a volcano with another unpronounceable name, the Grimsvotn volcano, which is spewing ashes into the atmosphere. At this time the air travel disruption is only impacting flights over Iceland, but the disruption could expand at any time.

A mysterious power outage at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport shut down much of the airport on Saturday and affected flights on Sunday as well, according to The Star Tribune. Delta Air Lines canceled 250 flights as a result of the power outage. The Examiner reports that 63 gates were closed and 500 travelers were stranded overnight as a result of the power failure. The power outage was apparently unrelated to the horrendous storms and tornadoes that hit the Twin Cities over the weekend, though the cause of the outage is still unknown.

The Times of India reports that a Continental Airlines flight bound for Newark was delayed for two days in New Delhi due to two separate mechanical problems. It required a part to be flown from the U.S. to India to fix one problem. By the time the mechanical problems were fixed the flight crew became unable to legally fly due to the length of the delay.