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Stranded NZ travellers wait for news
Stranded New Zealand air travellers may know later whether
flights to England will resume after a giant ash cloud from a
volcano in Iceland covered British airspace
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Many Europe flights still grounded due to volcanic ash
A huge ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano spread out across
Europe causing air travel chaos for a second day and costing
airlines hundreds of millions of dollars
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Fed up US flyers flirt with train travel
After idling for decades, train travel in the United States,
while not quite out of the station, is beginning to work up a
healthy head of steam
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Some of the cancelled flights due to volcanic ash disruption
Links to some of the airlines who have had to cancel flights due
to ash cloud disruption
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Icelandic ash cloud strands travellers to and from NZ
Hundreds of New Zealand passengers were stranded in Los Angeles and Hong Kong when Air New Zealand's flights were suspended because of the volcanic ash cloud sweeping over Europe
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All flights between New Zealand and Britain have been cancelled
New Zealand travellers hoping to make it to Europe are facing at
least another 36 hours of delays as a result of the volcanic ash
cloud over Northern Europe
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Flight cancellations due to volcanic ash impact on exporters
Volcanic ash grounding flights across Europe is a worry
for New Zealand exporters of perishable goods
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Volcanic ash stops flights across northern Europe
A huge ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano has turned the skies
of northern Europe into a no-fly zone, stranding hundreds of
thousands of passengers
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Q&A: How long will the volcano hit Europe flights?
The Icelandic volcano currently making northern Europe a no-fly zone could potentially affect international travel for months with the key questions how long the eruption lasts and whether it continues to spew ash
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Danish hotel offers "cycle for your supper" deal
A Danish hotel is pioneering a pedal-power electricity
generation scheme it hopes will catch on in other countries
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Drug violence scares off tourists to Mexico
Fears of drug violence spreading to beaches and colonial towns
are driving away tourists and threatening Mexico's crucial tourism
industry, already battered by last year's swine flu outbreak
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Survey finds most Kiwis OK with full-body airport scanners
New Zealanders appear willing to trade privacy for security, with most ready to submit to full-body scans at airports, according to a new survey
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Major campaign to attract Chinese visitors to NZ launched
Tourism New Zealand launches a multi-million dollar campaign in China on T uesday - designed to increase the number of Chinese visitors by 62%
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New ovens set to re-juvenate food on Air NZ Boeing 777-300s
Air New Zealand says its new Boeing 777-300 jets due to appear on long-haul routes from the end of this year will have new oven technology, allowing food to be cooked from scratch rather than simply reheated
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Battlefield tours skyrocket - from Western Front to Vietnam
As people head to Gallipoli and the Western Front for Anzac Day
dawn services, a growth area in battlefield tours or war
tourism emerges
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German corpse was still alive at airport, wife says
A German woman arrested on suspicion of trying to smuggle a
corpse onto a plane says her husband was still alive when they
reached Liverpool airport
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India to open 100 Kashmir peaks to foreign climbers
Mountaineers, rejoice: India will, for the first time, allow
foreign climbers to scale more than 100 high-altitude peaks this
summer in the Himalayan state of Kashmir
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Auckland hotel listed in Top 10 places to pop the question
For those Kiwi blokes who cannot make it to places like Italy
and Morocco to propose to the love of their life, just head down to
Mollies in Auckland, which made it to number 5 on the Top 10
list
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Proposals would give border guards powers to check Ipods
Border guards will be allowed to comb through passengers'
personal computers, iPods and MP3 players, under the draft of an
international trade agreement on copyright
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One million Kiwis fly Jetstar since June 2009domestic launch
One million Kiwis have used Jetstar's domestic service since its
launch in June 2009
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