Flight Cancellations

Ashcloud refund & rebooking rules

Qantas, Virgin Australia and Jetstar passengers can take advantage of the airlines' refund and re...

Virgin promises better-than-Qantas punctuality

Virgin Australia has come out just below Qantas in punctuality for the most recently reported per...

Travel insurance & the European volcanic ash cloud

Hundreds of flights have been cancelled across Europe as the Icelandic Grimsvotn volcanic ash clo...

Iceland volcano: UK, German airspace closed

Airspace in northern parts of the UK is closed with all flights cancelled, while airports in Germ...

Iceland volcano cancels, delays UK flights

Iceland's Grimsvötn volcano continues to erupt, and the ash cloud has delayed or cancelled U...

MAP: Iceland volcano eruption: flight effects

The latest ash cloud forecast maps from the London Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre about the Grimsv&...

V Australia's LAX emergency: knock-on effects

Update: V Australia has chartered an Air New Zealand Boeing 747 to ferry passengers home and to m...

Qantas best for on-time flights: govt

Virgin Blue cancelled the most flights last year, while Qantas had the most on-time departures, a...

Cairns, Townsville, Mount Isa Airports open

Having escaped the worst of Tropical Cyclone Yasi, the major North Queensland airports are starti...

Cairns, Townsville, Mt Isa Airports: open/closed?

Cairns Airport has announced that "no significant structural damage has been sustained from Tropi...

Cairns Airport escapes brunt of Cyclone Yasi

The strongest winds of Cyclone Yasi passed south of Cairns and Cairns Airport, with the eye passi...

Cyclone Yasi: other airport delays

Travellers all around Australia should keep an eye out for flight delays and cancellations as Cyc...

Cairns Airport to close early for Cyclone Yasi

Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasi, now a maximum-force Category Five storm with winds of more than 250...

Qantas, Jetstar evacuate passengers from Cairns

Qantas and Jetstar are flying additional planes into Cairns to get people out safely before "mons...

Tropical Cyclone Yasi: airport and airline info

As Tropical Cyclone Yasi tracks towards Cairns and northern Queensland, airports are planning to ...

Qantas back to full schedule for Heathow

Qantas is gearing up for a return to its full flight schedule from Heathrow following the re-open...

Update: Singapore resumes A380 flights

Update: After halting flights yesterday, Singapore Airlines are now putting their A380s back in t...