Tag: flight cancellations

• Saturday, April 25th 2015 - 05:58 UTC

  Volcano ashes fog Buenos Aires and blanket several Patagonian provinces

  

  The eruption of Chile’s Calbuco volcano has resulted in a cloud of ash beginning to spread on Friday into the City of Buenos Aires while the alert in southern cities of Argentina remains.

• Saturday, April 25th 2015 - 04:52 UTC

  Chilean volcano ashes reach Uruguay and will cover the whole territory

  

  Uruguay's emergency system, Sinae confirmed on Friday that the ashes from Chile's Calbuco volcano eruption have reached the country and on Saturday will cover the whole of the territory, with some dust precipitations linked to the phenomenon expected.

• Saturday, May 24th 2014 - 07:22 UTC

  Maduro blames the World Cup for airlines decision to cut flights to Venezuela

  

  President Nicolás Maduro said the World Cup is to blame for international airlines’ decision to cut flights to Venezuela and denied that the move had anything to do with his government's refusal to allow them to repatriate proceeds from ticket sales inside the country.

• Saturday, July 9th 2011 - 06:43 UTC

  Volcanic ash again cancels hundreds of flights in the Southern Cone

  

  Clouds of ash spewing from Chile's Puyehue volcano again grounded flights at airports in Uruguay and Argentina, where a major football tournament is being held. Scores of local and international flights were delayed or cancelled in and out of Buenos Aires, regional airport authority Aeropuertos Argentina 2000 said on its website on Friday.

• Thursday, June 23rd 2011 - 17:53 UTC

  The volcanic ash cloud fools forecasts: flights to Argentine Patagonia delayed

  

  The Puyehue volcano ash cloud has again fooled forecasts and submitted air travellers to further misery. A number of flights to Argentine Patagonia were cancelled Thursday morning due to the shift in the movement of the lingering ash cloud and was predicted to reach Buenos Aires Province over the course of the next few hours.

• Thursday, June 23rd 2011 - 09:10 UTC

  “Cork” of lava threatens new explosion at Puyehue volcano warns Chile

  

  Chilean experts warned Wednesday that a “cork” of lava could lead to another explosion at the Puyehue volcano, which has caused major flight disruptions from Argentina to Australia.

• Tuesday, June 21st 2011 - 16:04 UTC

  Chile’s volcanic ash cloud again visits Australasia forcing grounding of air traffic

  

  A volcanic ash cloud, which originated in Chile on 4 June and has caused significant disruption to air travel around Australia and New Zealand since 12 June returned on Tuesday to Australasia forcing further cancellations for at the least the next 48 hours.

• Monday, June 13th 2011 - 22:40 UTC

  River Plate airports with no air traffic until Tuesday morning

  

  A remnant of volcanic ashes spewed by the Chilean volcano Puyehue over a week ago and which continues to hover over the River Plate again interrupted Monday activities in the three main airports, Carrasco in Montevideo and Ezeiza and Aeroparque in the city of Buenos Aires.

• Monday, June 13th 2011 - 11:37 UTC

  Volcanic ash cloud reaches New Zealand and Australia

  

  A cloud of ash from an erupting volcano in Chile has drifted over the Atlantic and Indian oceans to lie over southern parts of New Zealand and Australia, prompting the cancellation of dozens of flights.

• Saturday, June 11th 2011 - 09:38 UTC

  Flights from Buenos Aires and Montevideo airports gradually begin to normalize

  

  As the volcanic ash cloud begun dissipating airlines operating from the airports of Buenos Aires, Montevideo, and the south of Brazil resumed some flights Friday afternoon but it will take several days to be back to normal as companies reprogram backlogs.