Hundreds of thousands of people are stranded and Europe remains closed for visitors due to the End of Days volcano filling the skies — and jet stream — with volcanic ash.
Planes in five countries have been completely grounded and nine countries have only partial flying allowed, according to BBC News.
Europe’s intergovernmental air control agency, Eurocontrol, said about 11,000 flights will take place on Friday for an area that includes 300 million people. Typically 28,000 flights are flown. Roughly 300 flights to the US have been canceled. 
The ash cloud continues to move southeast from Iceland and could drastically impact air traffic for the next few days. That could mean thousands more flights canceled — especially flights from the US to Europe or back.
After that, the backlog will be massive as airlines try to move passengers around the world. International terminals in the US will become holding facilities of tired, smelly people who look as if they’ve spent the past three days sleeping in a chair — because they have.
According to the LA Times Travel Blog, airlines, in most cases, are not responsible for the passengers and do not owe them any sort of compensation — so don’t expect any free hotel rooms, meals or compassion. You’re on your own.
Travel insurance would have helped, but we know you didn’t buy it. No one does.
