Tag: Puyehue volcano

• Wednesday, June 8th 2011 - 06:37 UTC

  Air traffic in Buenos Aires and Montevideo returns to normal as ash cloud disperses

  

  Argentina’s Civil Aviation agency (ANAC) and the Secretariat of Transport announced that the Ezeiza and Aeroparque airports are “now open and operating normally” as the ash cloud spewed by Chile’s Puyehue volcano late Tuesday seemed to be moving away from the Buenos Aires City and part of the River Plate area.

• Tuesday, June 7th 2011 - 22:00 UTC

  Airlines suspend flights from Uruguay, fearing the volcanic ash cloud

  

  Flights from Uruguay’s Carrasco international airport were suspended on Tuesday until further notice because of the proximity of Chile’s Puyehue volcano ash cloud that on Monday forced similar decisions for Buenos Aires City main international and domestic air terminals.

• Tuesday, June 7th 2011 - 14:33 UTC

  Ash cloud reaches Buenos Aires city at 5.000 metres height; all flights cancelled

  

  The Chilean volcano Puyehue ash cloud has reached the Argentine capital after moving across the Greater Buenos Aires, but the due effects of the cloud are seen to be minimal. Meanwhile local airlines confirmed cancelled all flights until further notice at the international airport of Ezeiza and at the domestic-flights metropolitan Aeroparque.

• Tuesday, June 7th 2011 - 03:48 UTC

  The volcanic ash cloud could reach Buenos Aires city on Tuesday

  

  The ash cloud hovering above Argentine Northern Patagonia since Saturday after the eruption of the Puyehue volcano in the Chilean Andes may reach the city of Buenos Aires on Tuesday, experts assured.

• Monday, June 6th 2011 - 04:08 UTC

  Chilean volcano ashes reach Atlantic coast; all flights cancelled and schools closed

  

  Southern Chile's Puyehue volcano was calm Sunday, one day after raining down ash and forcing thousands to flee, although the cloud of ash it had belched out still darkened skies as far away as neighbouring Argentina and was heading to the Atlantic coast.

• Sunday, June 5th 2011 - 12:20 UTC

  South Chile volcano eruption prompts evacuation; covers Argentine province with ash

  

  Southern Chile's Puyehue volcano erupted on Saturday for the first time in half a century prompting evacuation orders for 3,500 people and turning into dark the Argentine Patagonian resort of San Carlos de Bariloche, 100 kilometres to the east as it was covered with ash.