Gold Alert - Ash Cloud / Flight disruptions update for 27 June

URGENT COMMUNICATION AIRLINES RESUME OPERATIONS  UPDATE : 09.30am, 27 June 2011

We are delighted to bring you the final chapter in the Chilean Ash Cloud saga. Thank you to all our clients who have had their flights disrupted during the past two weeks. Your patience and understanding while we’ve worked through all the bookings has been greatly appreciated. Thanks too to our team of consultants for a sensational effort. They contacted and rebooked over 200 passengers a day in addition to their regular workloads.    They stayed on hold to the airlines up to 4 hours at a time and worked back each day to ensure all travellers bookings were dealt with.  The airlines have advised their flight status as of this morning and it’s all just about back to normal: Virgin Australia – all flights operating now  Domestic  Australia and New Zealand Jetstar  – all flights Domestic Australia and New Zealand operating now as well Qantas  – all operating Domestically and the following International update:         International services Services to and from Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington will operate as scheduled.   Additional flights and capacity have been scheduled to operate from Sydney to Auckland and return, also from Melbourne to Auckland and return. Qantas are currently calling out disrupted QF25 from Auckland to Los Angeles will operate as scheduled. Services to and from Queenstown will resume as scheduled (no flight scheduled to operate Monday 27 June). QF63 from Sydney to Johannesburg will operate via Perth. QF17 from Sydney to Buenos Aires is now delayed 4 hours late and will operate via Papeete, Tahiti. QF18 from Buenos Aires to Sydney is now delayed 7 hours and 30 mins late and will operate via Papeete, Tahiti. All other international services are operating as scheduled. Warm Regards, David Goldman General Manager & Director