Travel Delays

TomTom's fascinating new anti-traffic-jam tech

If you're on the road for business, driving to the airport under pressure of time, or simply doin...

Qantas pilots vote to strike

In brief: Qantas flights could face disruption following a vote by pilots to take industrial acti...

Ash cloud: Qantas flight updates

Update, 8am Wednesday June 29 New Zealand is worst affected by the volcanic ash cloud from Chil...

UK Govt: "severe" delays from strike Wed, Thu

Flights to the UK or via international airports including London Heathrow, Gatwick, Manchester an...

Tips: prepare for travel changes & disruption

Predictions of delayed flights, cancelled journeys and travel disruptions on the news -- or Austr...

Virgin: ash cloud update

Update: 4.30am Monday June 27Virgin Australia's Pacific Blue airline will recommence all New Zeal...

Ash cloud crisis: airlines need to do better

Airlines are doing a bad job of contacting passengers when major disruptions like the Chilean vo...

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: Reykjavik airport reopens

Update: As of noon on Tuesday, Reyjkavik airport has reopened following the eruption of Iceland's...

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...