Iceland’s erupting volcano began Monday to shoot molten lava and significantly less ash, stoking hopes that the volcanic cloud paralysing air travel across Europe will disperse.

Airlines urged governments to reopen routes through the volcanic ash cloud over Europe on Monday, branding the flight ban a “European mess” and the economic fallout “greater than September 11″.

EU transport ministers were to hold a video conference Monday on the volcanic ash cloud blowing across Europe, which has left millions of passengers stranded around the globe.

Europe on Sunday ordered a probe into billions of euros potentially lost since an Icelandic volcano erupted, prompting the biggest airspace shutdown since World War II.

Airlines across the Asia-Pacific region scrambled to reschedule or cancel flights on Friday after a vast cloud of volcanic ash closed swathes of European airspace.

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