Volcano causes travel disruption around the world

Cars wait at a departure point at the car ferry terminal in Calais, France
Photograph: Michel Spingler/AP

Travellers wait at the Gare de Lyon railway station in Paris to take trains to the south, as the main French airports remained closed
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Travellers at Los Angeles international airport bound for Frankfurt, Germany react as their tour guide informs them that it will be several days before their departure
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Travellers queue for Eurostar tickets at King's Cross St Pancras railway station in London
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Cargo trolleys parked on the tarmac at Cointrin, Geneva's international airport, Switzerland
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Lufthansa passengers wait in front of a bus bound for Munich, after their flight was grounded in Madrid's Barajas airport
Photograph: Andrea Comas/Reuters

Passengers rest in front of Terminal 1 at the airport in Vienna, Austria after all flights were grounded
Photograph: Leonhard Foeger/Reuters

People queue to buy tickets at Termini central train station in Rome, Italy
Photograph: Stefano Rellandini/Reuters

A passenger rests on the empty seats of a deserted terminal at Zurich airport in Kloten, Switzerland after all flights were grounded
Photograph: Christian Hartmann/Reuters

Passengers speak to Cathay Pacific employees at an inquiry counter at Hong Kong's international airport
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Lufthansa planes parked with plastic covers on their engines at Munich airport, Germany
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Passengers looking for alternative forms of transportation queue at the service desk in the railway station in Amsterdam, Netherlands
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A man holds a sign offering to drive stranded travellers to any location in Europe for 0.60 euros per kilometer at Schiphol airport, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Photograph: Peter Dejong/AP

An Indian traveller waits in emergency accommodation with camp beds at Munich airport, Germany
Photograph: Tobias Hase/EPA

Some of the stranded travellers evacuated from Calais, France enter Dover marina. TV presenter Dan Snow launched the Dunkirk-style mission to ferry passengers across the Channel in a fleet of RIBs after they were left stranded by flight cancellations
Photograph: Max Nash/PA

Travellers pass a board showing cancelled flights at the Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport, near Paris, France
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People wait for a train at Berlin's main train station which saw a significant increase in passengers after all flights at the city's airport were grounded
Photograph: Thomas Peter/Reuters

A hotel shuttle bus assistant kills time at Beijing's international airport
Photograph: Gemunu Amarasinghe/AP

Grounded passengers wait at the airport in Frankfurt
Photograph: Marius Becker/EPA

People queue up outside the Air France ticket sales office after the cancellation of their flights from Paris
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Stranded passengers take a nap in the departures area of Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok
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Stranded travellers to Europe try to get information from an airline representative at Terminal 8 at JFK airport
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