Abstract
In March 2010 all the Europe started to know this Icelandic volcano. This one which had known is last eruption in 1821 entered in it's the biggest one of its known existence. It erupted the 20 of March till the 27 of October. Thanks to the quick prevention of the authority there had been no victims but all the Europe suffered from this volcano.
Impact on the domestic economy (Iceland):
First of all the eruption has necessitate the evacuation of almost 1000 people. This volcano is situated 125 km at the east of Reykjavik the Icelandic capital but hopefully this one was not hurt thanks to the wind blowing to the south. But a lot of roads were closed and some farms destructed.
The major impact incurred to the airline company. Due to the enormous cloud of ashes which spread all over Europe air travel and transport throughout the world was cancelled due to the airspace restrictions. From the 15 of April to the 21 of April more than 27 countries had to stop partially or totally their aerial traffic. You can see on the following map the countries which had to stop totally their aerial traffic in red and those which had to stop partially in orange. Surprisingly and thanks to the wind, Iceland, the country of the volcano didn't have to cancel its domestic flights. Those restrictions were even bigger than those after 09/11 and resulted in the biggest air-traffic shut-down since World War II.
