Chile airports resume operations after major strike

A huge ash cloud from a Chilean volcano wreaked more havoc on international air travel Tuesday, forcing passengers on two continents to ditch stranded aircraft for travel by boat or overland.The eruption of the Puyehue volcano in southern Chile's Andes mountains is now in its second week, disrupting air travel on a scale unseen since the volcanic cloud over Iceland paralyzed Europe in 2010.Flights were suspended at Argentina's two airports again Tuesday as well as at airports in Uruguay, while half a world away across the Pacific Ocean, Australia saw a third day of delays.

DALLAS — American Airlines grounded flights across the country Tuesday because of an outage of its main reservations system. Thousands of passengers were stranded at airports and on airplanes. A spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration said American asked to halt its flights until 5 p.m. EDT. Flights into American’s five biggest cities — New York, Dallas, Los Angeles, Chicago and Miami — are stopped until 5:30 p.m. EDT.

Travellers in Germany faced major disruption on Tuesday as workers claiming more pay went on strike at airports across the country, causing cancellations and severe delays.More than one in three flights were cancelled at Frankfurt airport, Germany's biggest and the third busiest in Europe, according to Fraport, which runs operations there.German flag carrier Lufthansa said it was cancelling around 400 flights due to the strike by public sector workers.Other airports affected by strikes included Berlin, Stuttgart and Hanover.

Dozens of flights have been cancelled at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport because of a slow-moving storm in southern Ontario. The weather system, which has paralyzed parts of the U.S. Midwest for the second time in a week, was making a slow eastward trek early Wednesday. The departure board at Pearson was showing at least 106 cancelled flights through the late morning and at least 80 cancelled arrivals.

Yesterday, more than 1,600 flights to, from, and within the United States were canceled as blizzards blanketed the country.

On November 20th local and foreign entrepreneurs converged in the Chilean capital of Santiago to pitch their start-up ideas to thousands of potential investors.   The entrepreneurs had been accepted into an intensive six-month incubator program financed by the Chilean government, which is seeking to diversify the country’s resource-driven economy by establishing it as Latin America’s tech hub.  

Domestic and international flights from Argentina's two busiest airports were suspended Tuesday due to volcanic ash from the erupting Puyehue volcano in Chile, officials said.An airport official said 32 flights were canceled at the Buenos Aires Ezeiza international airport and 30 others were canceled at the Aeroparque de Buenos Aires, which has flights to domestic and regional destinations.Airports in southern Argentina have been closed since Saturday's eruption of the volcano in neighboring southern Chile.