Air India’s Ahmedabad-London flight AIR 131 was canceled last night due to a dense cloud of volcanic ash drifting from Iceland that has forced closure of airports in northern England, Scotland and northern Ireland.

All flights between India and the United Kingdom are also affected. Air India announced cancellation of all its flights to London from Delhi and Mumbai on Monday citing the closure of Heathrow airport as the reason.

Not just Air India, other private airlines have also been affected and forced to cancel flights to London. According to reports, AI was likely to hold a review meet later in the day to take stock of the situation.

Kingfisher Airlines also cancelled all its flights to London on Monday. “Having assessed the current information received from Eurocontrol, and the trends indicating anticipated closure of the airspace over London’s Heathrow airport due to fresh contamination of volcanic ash, Kingfisher Airlines has cancelled its flights to and from London airport,” its spokesperson said on Monday.

Though British and Irish aviation authorities tried hard to keep busy airports like Heathrow in operation for as late as possible, it had to be shut down on Sunday along with other major airports like Gatwick and London City. Several other airports now face similar fate.