Following is a list of airspace disruptions across the continent.

AUSTRIA: Austria's air authority extended the closure of its airspace to at least 1200 GMT Sunday. The shutdown affects all flights under an altitude of 7,500 metres (24,600 feet), but not those over 12,000 metres.

BELGIUM: Belgian airspace closed until 1200 GMT Sunday.

BOSNIA: Airspace closed until 2200 GMT Saturday.

BRITAIN: Britain extended a ban on most flights in its airspace to 1200 GMT Sunday.

BULGARIA: Airspace closed north of 43rd parallel from 2100 GMT Saturday including Varna and Gorna Oriahovitsa. Sofia airport open.

CROATIA: Airspace in north of country, including Zagreb airport, closed, but airports at Split and Dubrovnik on Adriatic coast remained open.

CZECH REPUBLIC: Airspace closed until at least 1000 GMT Sunday.

DENMARK: Danish airspace is closed until 1200 GMT Sunday.

ESTONIA: Airspace closed until at least 1200 GMT Sunday.

FINLAND: All commercial flights grounded until 1200 GMT Sunday.

FRANCE: The three airports in the Paris area and others in northern France closed until 0600 GMT Monday. Bordeaux and Grenoble closed on Saturday afternoon. Airports in Nice, France's third busiest, and Marseille to close from 0400 GMT on Sunday.

GERMANY: German airspace closed until 1200 GMT Sunday.

HUNGARY: Airspace closed until 1000 GMT Sunday.

ICELAND: Airports remain open.

IRELAND: After partially reopening on Friday, airspace closed again until 1200 GMT on Sunday because of a new deterioration.

ITALY: Airspace across northern Italy will remain closed until 0600 GMT on Monday.

LATVIA: Air traffic halted until at least 0000 GMT Sunday.

LITHUANIA: Airspace was formally reopened Friday afternoon but the country's airports will remain shut until at least Sunday.

NETHERLANDS: Dutch air space will remain closed until at least 0600 GMT on Sunday.

NORWAY: Some airspace open.

POLAND: All Polish airspace closed until further notice, throwing into doubt the attendance of foreign leaders at the state funeral on Sunday of president Lech Kaczynski, killed in an air crash a week ago.

ROMANIA: Romania closed airspace at 1500 GMT Saturday with the ash cloud expected to cover the whole country starting around 1800 GMT.

RUSSIA: Russia's airports remained open.

SERBIA: Airspace over Serbia and Montenegro closed from 1600 GMT Saturday until further notice.

SLOVAKIA: Slovakian airspace closed at 1300 GMT on Friday and was expected to remain shut until 2159 GMT Sunday.

SLOVENIA: Slovenia closed airspace until further notice.

SPAIN: Seven airports in northern Spain (Asturias, Santander, Bilbao, San Sebastian, Vitoria, Pamplona and Logrono) briefly closed on Saturday.

SWEDEN: Some airspace open but few commercial flights allowed to fly.

SWITZERLAND: Commercial flights in and out of Switzerland banned until 1200 GMT Sunday. Flights at high altitude over 20,000 feet allowed.

UKRAINE: Kiev airport closed until 1800 GMT Saturday.

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