Jan-Gunnar Pedersen, a department head at Avinor, one of Norway's leading airport management firms, said to NRK: “The new airplanes can tolerate more ash and the airline companies today can choose to fly in conditions that resulted in cancellations in 2010."
A similar natural disaster, such as the Iceland volcano eruption of 2010 which emitted dangerous ash, may now have far less consequences for airspace traffic and will therefore less serious a threat.
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