Planes crisscrossing the East Coast were given access to military airspace Wednesday afternoon, a handy accommodation as fog and winter weather threaten to make one of the year's busiest travel days even more tedious.
Fiji's rugby sevens team have been forced to change their travel plans after they were told they would not be allowed to transit through New Zealand on their way to the Dubai Sevens at the end of the month.
The U.S. Thanksgiving air travel rush began in earnest on Wednesday with flights running smoothly for much of the day, but hitting turbulence later with storms and delays hitting some key airports.
Editor?s note: Staff reports of highway conditions appear below. Share your own travel experiences or tips at the bottom of this bulletin. The first entries are Thanksgiving, and below that are entries and travel tips posted Wednesday.
23 November 2007 The Fiji Rugby Union says it cannot do anything about being denied travel access through New Zealand. The Immigration Service has told the Fiji Rugby Sevens team that if they apply for transit visas they will be turned down.
The cost of air travel could be set to fall after government moves to regulate what airports can charge for ancillary services. The government is changing the way it regulates airports under the Commerce Act because the marketplace is not competitive enough.
MANILA, Philippines -- A labor group on Thursday urged President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to lift a travel ban to or from Iraq to allow thousands of Filipinos to find lucrative jobs there or come home for Christmas.
The Thanksgiving air travel rush began in earnest on Wednesday with flights running smoothly for much of the day, but hitting turbulence later with storms and delays hitting some key airports.
