22/12/2010 | Argentina

LAN strike lifted after 24 hours of delays

The airline strike has been lifted, and all LAN flight operations have been resumed in Ezeiza and Jorge Newberry airports. Following five hours of negotiations, labour minister Carlos Tomada finally settled the issues with LAN staff in an emergency meeting.

22/03/2011 | Argentina

Ezeiza, Aeroparque flights resume after delays

Flights resumed at Ezeiza, Jorge Newbery and San Fernando airports last night after being cancelled due to technical faults. Flights have stabilized although they did suffer delays throughout the day.

30/03/2011 | Argentina

Domestic flights increased 53% within last 16 months; Gov't authorizes new hike

Domestic flights will suffer an 8 percent increase, starting tomorrow, as the government authorized a new ticket prices hike being it the third increase in less than a year.

20/04/2011 | Argentina

Flights delayed in Metropolitan Airport due to bad weather conditions

Flights were delayed -and in some cases, cancelled- in the Aeroparque Metropolitan Airport due to inclement weather conditions and because of the increase in the amount of flights due to the beginning of the Easter weekend holiday, ANAC Civil Aviation National Administration reported.

21/04/2011 | Argentina

Easter weekend traffic, flights normalise

The lingering presence of heavy fog and mist this morning considerably slowed down the movement of air and road tourist traffic across the country. Flights were delayed in some provincial airports, and road traffic was slow due to the poor weather conditions.

19/05/2011 | Argentina

Timeline: Worst air accidents in Argentina

With more than 80 deaths, the 1999 LAPA tragedy remains the worst air catastrophe in Argentine history.

10/06/2011 | Argentina

Aeroparque, Ezeiza resume activities, to be normalized on Monday

Airlines resumed their flights running from 6PM following the Crisis Committee meeting, although those flights heading to the Southern area of the country are still limited. Sources said the situation will be normalized by Monday.

11/06/2011 | Argentina

Flights in Ezeiza, Aeroparque gradually normalize

The airlines gradually "normalize" their flights going to and from the Ezeiza International Airport and the Aeroparque Metropolitan Airport. Nevertheless, the flights heading to the Southern area of the country are still limited.

13/06/2011 | Argentina

Airlines cancel all flights scheduled for Monday night

A few minutes before 9 pm, when the Ezeiza and Aeroparque airports were expected to resume their services, Aerolineas Argentinas, Austral and LAN airlines once again decided to continue to ground all outbound flights and divert all planes directed to Buenos Aires due to the volcanic ash cloud hovering above the city.

15/06/2011 | Argentina

Ezeiza, Aeroparque airports now operating normally

The dramatic situation created by the grounding of all flights in the region due to the volcanic ash cloud spewed by the Puyehue is gradually going back to normal in the City, with several airlines resuming their services in the Ezeiza and Aeroparque airports.

23/06/2011 | Argentina

Airlines begin to suspend services to south, ash cloud moves toward BA

A number of flights to Patagonia were cancelled this morning, due to the shift in the movement of the lingering ash cloud produced by the Chilean Puyehue volcano, which is predicted to reach Buenos Aires Province over the course of the next few hours.

25/06/2011 | Argentina

Airports resume activities, flights heading to South still cancelled

Both Ezeiza and Aeroparque airports began to gradually reschedule flights that were previously cancelled due to the return of the ash cloud produced by the Chilean Puyehue volcano, airlines informed. Those flights heading towards the Southern area of the country are still cancelled.

01/07/2011 | Argentina

Flights cancelled due to ash cloud, to be resumed at 10am

According to an official from the National Administration of Civic Aviation (ANAC), the ash cloud being produced by the Chilean Puyehue volcano has returned to Buenos Aires and caused flight delays and cancellations at both Aeroparque and Ezeiza airports.

02/07/2011 | Argentina

Flights return to normal at Aeroparque, Ezeiza airports

Lan Argentina and Aerolineas Argentinas informed its customers on Saturday that flight schedules were running as normal, to and from Aeroparque and Ezeiza international airport, after having cancelled services on Friday due to the lingering presence of ash coming from the Chilean Puyehue volcano, which had blown its way back into Buenos Aires.

10/07/2011 | Argentina

Aeroparque, Ezeiza partially resume flights

Ezeiza and Metropolitan airports partially resumed activities after several flights were cancelled due to the volcanic ash cloud spewed by Chilean volcano Puyehue.

26/07/2011 | Argentina

Aeroparque flights cancelled until Wednesday due to volcanic ash cloud

Domestic and most international flights have been cancelled until Wednesday due to the ash cloud spewed by Chilean volcano Puyehué. Only three Aerolíneas Argentinas flights are due to depart fro Ezeiza airport headed to Miami, Madrid and Mexico.

27/07/2011 | Argentina

Metropolitan airport resumes normal activity

Activity in the Metropolitan airport is slowly resuming its normal pace as Aerolíneas Argentinas, Austral and Lan airlines announced they resumed their operations, after cancelling them due to volcanic ash cloud.

10/11/2011 | Argentina

Ash cloud returns, delays flights to Patagonia

After two weeks without presenting disruptions, flight complications began again due to the presence of the ash cloud being produced by the Chilean Puyehue volcano, affecting the area of Patagonia in the south of Argentina.

11/11/2011 | Argentina

CFK postpones trip to Santa Fe due to ash cloud, flight delays

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner suspended her trip to Santa Fe, due to the presence of volcanic ash in the skies of the southern part of the province, presidential spokesperson, Alfredo Scoccimarro announced. Thus, the presidential activities have been rescheduled for next Tuesday.

13/11/2011 | Argentina

Aerolíneas says canceled int’l flights rescheduled

Aerolíneas Argentinas announced the rescheduling of the international flights that were suspended during the weekend in response to a strike staged by the air traffic controllers and aeronautical technical staff.

14/11/2011 | Argentina

CFK urges population to 'stop boycott attempts'

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner demanded for the disappearance of boycott attempt and called for “the cooperation of all Argentines in order to build a great country as there’s not one single society that could grow without the joint effort of its entire population," during a speech given in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego.

16/11/2011 | Argentina

Flights delayed at Ezeiza Int'l Airport due to union protest

Many flights leaving from the Ezeiza International Airport were delayed on Wednesday evening due to a protest by air traffic controllers.

17/11/2011 | Argentina

Puricelli blasts airline protest, calls it a 'boycott'

The Defence Minister Arturo Puricelli, came out to speak on the union conflict which has been affecting international and local flights, stating that the air traffic controllers who went on strike last night should “take social responsibility” for their actions, and get back to work. Puricelli labelled the protest a "boycott" and says the disruption to the service “happened for no reason”.

22/11/2011 | Argentina

Ezeiza, Aeroparque airports slowly resume services

Over twenty domestic and international flights from Aerolíneas Argentinas and Austral were cancelled or delayed on Tuesday at Ezeiza and Aeroparque international terminals due to the presence of an ash cloud coming from the Chilean Puyehue volcano.

11/01/2012 | Argentina

LAN reschedules flights leaving from Aeroparque

LAN Airlines announced that “due to a decision by the national aeronautical authorities,” the company has been forced to reschedule their flighst leaving from the Aeroparque Metropolitan airport bound for Sao Paulo, Brazil and Santiago, Chile.

16/01/2012 | Argentina

Flights to Bariloche cancelled due to return of volcanic ash

Flights that were scheduled to head to San Carlos de Bariloche today were cancelled once more due to the presence of volcanic ashes.

28/02/2012 | Argentina

Flights delayed at Aeroparque, Ezeiza due to storms

Due to the overnight storms and continuous heavy rain, flight cancellations and delays affected both Aeroparque and Ezeiza airports this morning, airport sources and Aerolíneas Argentinas 2000 said.

01/03/2012 | Argentina

CFK to seek reinstatement of flights between Buenos Aires and Malvinas

During her speech this afternoon at the opening of this year's ordinary sessions in Congress, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announced her wishes to resume flights between Buenos Aires and the Malvinas Islands. "I will instruct Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman to renegotiate the route to the Islands with the British government," she stated.

24/04/2012 | Argentina

Argentina presents UK with plan to resume flights to Malvinas

Argentina’s Ambassador to the UK Alicia Castro officially presented today Argentina's proposal to establish Aerolíneas Argentinas airline regular flights to the Malvinas Islands, during a meeting with UK’s Minister of State Jeremy Browne in London.

21/05/2012 | Argentina

Flights delayed, cancelled at Aeroparque due to weather

Many flights in the Aeroparque Metropolitan Airport have been cancelled or are being delayed due to poor weather conditions caused by fog and rain.

22/05/2012 | Argentina

Flights delayed at Ezeiza Airport due to rain and fog

Flights were delayed this morning at Ezeiza International Airport, due to poor visibility caused by the fog and rain currently affecting the Greater Buenos Aires area. Many flights were cancelled and some postponed, until weather conditions improve.

03/07/2012 | Argentina

Flights delayed out of Aeroparque

A lack of Air Traffic controllers at Jorge Newbery Metropolitan airport caused slight delays on flights across all airlines Tuesday morning. Flights did not take off out of the airport from 00.00 am to 6 am due to the workers' absence.

05/07/2012 | Argentina

Flights resume at Aeroparque, Ezeiza after Air Traffic Control protest

Flights resumed at Jorge Newbery Metropolitan Airport and Ezeiza International Airport in Buenos Aires, following a union protest led by air traffic controllers, a measure that started at the beginning of the week. The measure caused delays and cancellations in domestic and international flight.

06/07/2012 | Argentina

Protesters lift Ezeiza roadblock, flights back to normal

The ATE state workers and CTA union members lifted the protest they were carrying out in front of Ezeiza International airport this afternoon, in which general traffic to the airport was being blocked off. Flights schedules are back to normal and there are no delays on the roads on the way to the airport.

24/07/2012 | Argentina

Aeroparque flights back to normal

Flights schedules at Jorge Newbery Metropolitan airport were slowly beginning to normalise after severe delays and cancellations affected domestic flights overnight due to low-lying fog, airport sources said.

05/08/2012 | Argentina

Flights suspended in Aeroparque due to fog

A dense fogbank covering a large part of Buenos Aires was forcing the Aeroparque Metropolitan airport authorities to suspend all operations and reroute flights to the Ezeiza airport, sources reported.

16/08/2012 | Argentina

Delays at Aeroparque, BA port closed due to fog

Delays on flight operations into and out of Jorge Newbery Metropolitan Airport were reported on Thursday due to the heavy fog affecting the capital, airport sources informed.

25/09/2012 | Argentina

Aerolíneas, Austral flights canceled in Metropolitan airport

Aerolíneas Argentinas and Austral were resuming their flights from Aeroparque Metropolitan airport, following a series of cancelations and delays in flights due to a failure in the software system that regulates flights.

31/08/2011 | Argentina

Domestic flights suffer delays, cancellations due to ash cloud

Domestic flights, particularly to the south of Argentina were still suffering delays and cancellations today, following backing-up of airline services yesterday, as many flights were suspended due to the new presence of an ash cloud coming from the Chilean Puyehue volcano in the south.

02/09/2011 | Argentina

Delays, suspensions in flights of Córdoba and Patagonia area

The airport of Córdoba remained closed during most of the day due to a fire near the landing strip. Meanwhile, some flights at the Patagonia had to be suspended due to the presence of volcanic ash.

07/10/2011 | Argentina

Bad weather, strikes slow Aeroparque flights

An Aerolínas Argentinas and Austral protest added to the inclement weather conditions that affect the city of Buenos Aires, complicating proceedings at the Aeroparque Metropolitan airport. Several Aerolíneas, Austral and Lan flights were either cancelled or delayed.

18/10/2011 | Argentina

Aeroparque service normalizes with some flight disruptions

Both Aerolíneas Argentinas and Austral airlines informed passengers today that flight schedules were running as normal out of Aeroparque Metropolitan airport, with the exception of flights to Córdoba, Mendoza, San Juan and San Rafael, which this morning had been affected by a new presence of volcanic ash in the airspace.

30/10/2011 | World

Qantas to resume flights after govt intervenes in dispute

An Australian tribunal ordered Qantas Airways to put its planes back into the air, intervening in the nation's most dramatic labour dispute in a decade after the national carrier grounded its entire global fleet.

20/12/2010 | World

Snow and ice disrupt pre-Christmas travel in Europe

Europe saw little respite from the Arctic conditions that closed airports and disrupted travel over the weekend before Christmas, traditionally one of the busiest times of the year.

27/12/2012 | World

Storm pounds eastern US, hundreds of flights cancelled

A powerful winter storm forced the cancellation of about 200 US flights today, snarling holiday travel as heavy snow and high winds pummeled the northeastern United States.

08/02/2013 | World

Blizzard begins to wallop northeastern US, flights cancelled

01/03/2012 | World

UK Foreign Office: 'flights are a matter for the islanders to consider'

After President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announced her intentions to reinstate regular flights between Buenos Aires and the Malvinas Islands, the British Foreign Office said any discussion of the flights was a matter for the islands' government to consider.

02/03/2012 | World

UK: 'Decisions regarding flights to Malvinas must be considered by the islands' administration'

The UK Foreign Office came on stage today to respond to President Cristina de Kirchner who yesterday said she wanted Argentina's flag carrier Aerolíneas Argentinas to fly to the Malvinas Islands and to renegotiate a 1999 agreement with Britain.

29/07/2011 | World

Cuba approves flights from 9 more US cities

Air travel between the United States and Cuba will become easier with the opening of charter flights to the forbidden island from an additional nine US cities announced by Cuba authorities.

21/05/2011 | World

Iceland volcano erupts, officials eye flight risks

Iceland's most active volcano erupted, hurling a plume of ash and smoke far into the sky, which aviation officials were closely monitoring after another volcano shut European airspace for days last year.

26/05/2011 | World

Iceland volcano producing steam, no airspace closures

Iceland's volcano is producing mostly steam rather than ash and should calm down within a few days, national police said encouraging hopes there will be no further disruption to flights in northern Europe.