Regional flights have been cancelled since Mount Pavlof in Alaska started to spew ash last week. Reports said the volcano, one of the most active in Alaska, spewed ash as high as 6.7 kilometres, the Alaska Volcano Observatory said.

It warned that ash plumes may even go higher with the eruption showing no signs of slowing down.

Affected by the volcano eruption are regional carriers that serve the rural fishing towns and native villages of Alaska that does not have road access. But the ash plume was still too low to affect aircraft that fly at least 9,150 metres above sea level between Asia and North America.

PenAir, based in Anchorage, had to cancel a dozen flights since the company's planes fly between 4,500 and 6,000 metres altitude, which is where the jets could encounter ash. The disruption affected flights to four destinations, said PenAir Chief Executive Danny Seybert.

Pavlof's last major eruption was in 2007. Between 1901 and 2007, the volcano had about 24 eruptions, the observatory said.

Its ash plume from the latest eruption was visible from space as recorded by the International Space Station.

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