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[steinjr]

How far south are airports closed? The news mentions Paris but not much else.

BBCs list from Friday morning (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8626505.stm) says:
Airspace totally closed:
Belgium
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia (until at least 0000 GMT Saturday)
Finland (all commercial flights grounded)
Hungary
Latvia
Netherlands
Slovakia
Switzerland

Partial closures:
Austria
France (northern airspace, with Paris airports closed until 1200 GMT Saturday)
Germany (most airports closed)
Italy (northern airspace closed until 1200 GMT Saturday)
Lithuania (air traffic control leaving decision to fly to individual companies)
Norway (limited flights in north)
Poland
Republic of Ireland (most airspace opened Friday)
Sweden (northern airspace opened Friday)
UK (some restrictions lifted)

They also had an interesting illustration from http://www.flightradar24.com showing the difference in air traffic between Thursday morning and Friday afternoon in NW Europe:




Flights in the air right now over Europe only shows flights in SE Europe (see below) - but it is early morning (like 5 am for most of Europe) over here, so this is a time of day where there would be relatively few flights anyways.



EDIT: actually, doesn't seem to change much later in the day. It looks like this at 10am CET on Saturday morning:


Stein