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UK airspace will be free of a dense volcanic cloud for the rest of the week, allowing the half-term getaway to begin without threat of disruption, according to the latest forecasts.

The Met Office believes that projections showing a heavy cloud of ash blanketing the UK on Friday are no longer valid because the Grímsvötn crater in Iceland is now emitting only steam as the eruption subsides. The information emerged in a conference call involving the UK aviation industry on Wednesday afternoon and the national weather forecaster is expected to produce a new, detailed forecast later this evening.

According to an aviation industry source, the latest development has headed off a potentially embarrassing development for the Met Office and the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) on Friday.

This could have resulted in British Airways and Virgin Atlantic flights being grounded while Emirates and American Airlines services took off and landed.

The news comes as UK airlines return to normal operation following severe disruption to flights in Scotland earlier this week. The head of British Airways and Iberia joined the clamour over the handling of the volcanic ash cloud after claiming that a BA test flight "found nothing" after flying through a smoke plume deemed by regulators to be too dangerous for normal commercial flights.