Ash grounds Adelaide flights
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June 15, 2011, Wednesday
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MORE Australian flights were canceled yesterday because of ash from a Chilean volcano, this time out of Adelaide airport, as airlines scrambled to fly out thousands of passengers who had been stranded for two days in Melbourne.
National carrier Qantas and budget airline Jetstar said they planned to add capacity to and from Melbourne, Australia's second-largest city, and hoped to get all passengers in the air by last night. More than 60,000 passengers have been stranded by the disruptions, which came amid a three-day holiday weekend in Australia.
It was unclear how many people were still stranded in Melbourne as flights resumed there.
Meanwhile, about two dozen flights into and out of the southern city of Adelaide were canceled yesterday. The grounded flights included service by budget carrier Tiger Airways, which also canceled a flight between Melbourne and the western city of Perth because the route would require planes to cross through the ash cloud.
Qantas and Jetstar also kept flights to the island state of Tasmania and New Zealand grounded, as they have since Sunday.
Ash has moved across the Pacific from Chile, where it has been spewing from the Cordon Caulle volcano since June 4.
Particles in the ash can damage jet engines. Despite the danger, the Australian air force flew stranded Tasmanian lawmakers to the national capital Canberra in a jet late on Monday to attend yesterday's parliamentary session, the government said in a statement.
There were no problems reported with the flight.
National carrier Qantas and budget airline Jetstar said they planned to add capacity to and from Melbourne, Australia's second-largest city, and hoped to get all passengers in the air by last night. More than 60,000 passengers have been stranded by the disruptions, which came amid a three-day holiday weekend in Australia.
It was unclear how many people were still stranded in Melbourne as flights resumed there.
Meanwhile, about two dozen flights into and out of the southern city of Adelaide were canceled yesterday. The grounded flights included service by budget carrier Tiger Airways, which also canceled a flight between Melbourne and the western city of Perth because the route would require planes to cross through the ash cloud.
Qantas and Jetstar also kept flights to the island state of Tasmania and New Zealand grounded, as they have since Sunday.
Ash has moved across the Pacific from Chile, where it has been spewing from the Cordon Caulle volcano since June 4.
Particles in the ash can damage jet engines. Despite the danger, the Australian air force flew stranded Tasmanian lawmakers to the national capital Canberra in a jet late on Monday to attend yesterday's parliamentary session, the government said in a statement.
There were no problems reported with the flight.
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