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France: Airlines must cut flights in half Tuesday (AP)

October 18th, 2010

French Union workers burn tires to block the entrance of the oil refinery of Grandpuits eastern of Paris, Monday, Oct. 18 , 2010. Some oil workers pledged to keep up a protest at refineries, and one union warned of looming gasoline shortages as an open-ended strike against President Nicolas Sarkozy's plan to raise the retirement age to 62 entered its seventh day. (AP Photo/ Francois Mori)AP - France’s civil aviation authority says airlines must drastically cut back on their flights into France on Tuesday due to strikes over the government’s pension reform bill.


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Typhoon suspends SKorean flights, subway, kills 3 (AP)

September 2nd, 2010

South Korean high school students walk against strong winds caused by Typhoon Kompasu in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. The tropical storm has hit South Korea with heavy downpours and gusts that cut Seoul subway lines, paralyzed airport traffic, and caused massive power outages along the western coast.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)AP - Typhoon Kompasu struck South Korea early Thursday, killing three people while it knocked over streetlights and scaffolding in what was called the strongest tropical storm to hit the…

Air traffic control problem cuts European flights (AP)

August 20th, 2010

AP - A regional air traffic control system outage sharply limited flights around much of northern Europe Friday, causing delays for tens of thousands of passengers aboard some 700 flights.

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Flood relief flights grounded in Pakistan (AP)

August 6th, 2010

Pakistan army soldiers in a helicopter rescue stranded families in Sanawan near Multan in central Pakistan on Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010. U.S. Army choppers flew their first relief missions in Pakistan's flood-ravaged northwest Thursday, airlifting hundreds of stranded people to safety from a devastated tourist town and distributing emergency aid. In the country's south, authorities began evacuating half-a-million people as the worst monsoon rains in decades threatened new destruction. (AP Photo/Khallid Tanveer)AP - Bad weather grounded helicopters carrying emergency supplies to Pakistan’s flood-ravaged northwest Friday amid warnings the worst monsoon rains in decades would bring more destruction to a nation already…

Turkey closes airspace to some Israeli flights (AP)

June 28th, 2010

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey makes a statement at his press closing press conference as the G20 Summit Toronto, Sunday, June 27, 2010 (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)AP - Turkey has closed its airspace to some Israeli military flights following a deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship, the Turkish prime minister and officials said Monday. An…

BA runs ‘more flights than planned’ despite strike (AFP)

May 30th, 2010

British Airways said it had operated more flights than planned on Sunday as cabin crew started a new five-day strike with little sign of a resolution to the long-running dispute.(AFP/File/Adrian Dennis)AFP - British Airways said it had operated more flights than planned on Sunday as cabin crew started a new five-day strike with little sign of a resolution to the…

Ash delays and reroutes trans-Atlantic flights (AP)

May 8th, 2010

This image provided by NASA shows the ash plume from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano over the North Atlantic acquired on Friday May 7, 2010. mammoth cloud of volcanic ash stretching 1,250 miles (2,000 kilometers) across the North Atlantic is forcing most flights between North America and Europe to divert into a sky-high traffic jam, Irish and European air authorities said. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - BRUSSELS â?? The Icelandic volcano with the unpronounceable name reminded the world again that it has the power to disrupt international travel â?? coughing out a spreading cloud of…

Ash delays, reroutes trans-Atlantic flights (AP)

May 8th, 2010

This image provided by NASA shows the ash plume from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano over the North Atlantic acquired on Friday May 7, 2010. mammoth cloud of volcanic ash stretching 1,250 miles (2,000 kilometers) across the North Atlantic is forcing most flights between North America and Europe to divert into a sky-high traffic jam, Irish and European air authorities said. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - Most flights between Europe and North America will be delayed on Saturday due to the spreading cloud of volcanic ash stretching across much of the northern Atlantic, the…

Flights take off but ash limits Norway, Sweden (AP)

April 22nd, 2010

Andrey Zherikov, kisses his daughter Viktoria Zherikova, 7, as they wait at the United Airlines counter to find out if they can get a flight back home to Russia, Wednesday, April 21, 2010 at Miami International Airport in Miami. Airlines toted up losses topping $2 billion and struggled to get hundreds of thousands of travelers back home Wednesday after a week of crippled air travel, as questions and recriminations erupted over Europe's chaotic response to the volcanic ash cloud. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)AP - European airports sent thousands of planes into the sky Thursday after a week of unprecedented disruptions, but shifting winds sent a new plume of volcanic ash over Scandinavia,…

Flights resume in Europe but travel chaos not over (AP)

April 20th, 2010

An Air France aircraft take off at the Charles De Gaulle airport just outside Paris, Tuesday, April 20, 2010. Limited flights from the Paris airports to several binternational/b destinations resumed Tuesday, with most French airports now open to limited traffic.(AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)AP - Many European flights took to the skies Tuesday for the first time in days but the travel chaos was far from over: London’s airports were still closed, a…

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