I have been waiting on Black figs from Lebanon for the past 2 years. I made arrangements to import a small tree of the rare black varieties. The tree is not dormant, and with no soil. It was suppose to be here on Tuesday. So far all flights across the Atlantic have been canceled up till Monday.
The volcano is not stopping erupting anytime soon.

Bass,

If this can lift your spirit,
Jon sent my Sierra and Sequoia fig trees on the 5th and were due on the 9th.
Somehow they got mixed up in transit and ended up in Nebraska and didn't make it home till the 14th.

When I opened the box I was fearing the worse. But to my surprise they were healthy. The leaves were firm and crisp and full of life, I was so excited I emailed Jon and told him the good news. Even he was surprised.

Lets hope yours will have the same happy ending and wish they would arrive safe and healthy.

Oh Bass you must have much mixed feelings on the unknown of there condition right now. Two years waiting for them and then they get shipped and of all things a volcano eruption delays them.
I'm sure a volcano stopping all flights would have never crossed ones mind and it must be hard just wondering if they will survive this journey.
I hope for the best and let us know what the eventual outcome is. 

Figs are tough.  A Portuguese friend had a cousin in Pennsylvania with a family fig tree.  The cousin was coming up for a family occasion in July and dug up three suckers for me.  He arrived on Friday and gave the figs, all about three feet tall with leaves and bareroot in a plastic shopping bag to my friend's husband, and told him to put them in water.  The husband tossed the bag in the garage (no water) where my friend found it the next Monday and brought it to me.  The leaves were crisp.  I cut them back to just above the roots and potted them.  Two survived. 
Have hope.

i sold my european stock funds until we see just how this mess unravels.  this could continue for quite some time.

my condolences bass!

Bass, if the plant reaches you even late there is good chance it will survive because of the fig resilience. I had posted below the situation of a bare-root plant shipped to me that had got stuck somewhere in transit and took 57 days from Montreal to Ottawa. Everything had dried up except an inch or two at the bottom that I was not sure if dried or not and one tiny root showing life (out of a big bunch of dried roots). I did not junk it because I was potting other plants so I just potted this one as well and it shooted at the bottom couple of inches after a while and it is a good size plant now!

http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=3718364

i surely hope this doesn't affect my trip to europe next month....

This may effect plans for Italian friends coming.  I wish you luck Bass, hopefully they are not held up anywhere cold during transport. I will keep fingers crossed for you.  Ciao Ciao

I was the other half of Rafed's mis-shipped figs.  Mine arrived even later.  2 were in really good shape.  1 had lost quite a few leaves but a week later, has bounced back nicely and is sprouting a couple new leaves.

Italiangirl, the airspace in Spain and Southern Italy is still open.  Milano and Fumicino in Roma is still closed so if they are willing to travel south, they can probably get out.  Lufthansa is launching 50 flights to Germany, so that is good news.