Re: Chile: Puyehue-Cord?n Caulle volcano erupts forcing mass evacuation
http://www.bbc.co.uk/portuguese/noticias/2011/06/110613_vulcao_2a_marcia_pu.shtml
Portuguese to English translation
Ash from the volcano again cause disorder in six countries
Marcia Carmo
From Buenos Aires to Brazil BBC
Chilean volcano has caused trouble across the Southern Cone
The ash from the volcano Puyehue, Chile, returned to hit the South American airspace and now affects at least six countries, including the top two from Oceania, Australia and New Zealand.
On Sunday, the airlines that operate flights to airports in Buenos Aires, Ezeiza and Jorge Newbery (Aeroparque) - including TAM, Gol, LAN and Aerolineas Argentinas - to suspend flights between Sunday night and for at least 14h this Monday.
The cancellations were made after the National Administration of Civil Aviation (ANAC) has issued a statement limiting air operations in Argentina, using information from the National Weather Service (NWS) about the weather conditions in central Iran.
The torments caused by the eruption of volcano in Chile were not confined to the Southern Cone On Sunday, the Australian airline Qantas canceled all its flights with origin or destination city of Melbourne, claiming that the ashes of Puyehue crossed the Pacific Ocean and reached the Oceania.
Other airlines such as Jetstar and Virgin Atlantic, also stopped takeoffs and landings in the region, leaving thousands of passengers without alternatives to travel. Eight thousand people were affected by the cancellation, including passengers for New Zealand.
Click Read also on BBC Brazil: Ash from Chilean volcano arrive in Australia and cause cancellations
Chile is more than 9000 kilometers of the two affected countries.
Disorder
In Argentina, many passengers were taken by surprise by the news of the cancellation of flights because they were already at the airport when it turned out the return of the volcanic wastes and their effects on the airline industry.
"I would travel to visit my girlfriend who has a birthday today," said an Argentine who was in Aeroparque and was interviewed by local TV stations.
The volcano Puyehue-Cord?n complex Caulle in southern Chile, erupted on June 4 and affected last week, operations at major airports in Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and southern Brazil.
Qantas canceled all flights to Melbourne on Sunday
The flights to major cities of the Argentine Patagonia remain suspended by direction of ANAC. Towns in Patagonia, Bariloche and the province of Rio Negro, and Villa Angostura, Neuquen province, are some of the most affected by natural phenomena.
The government declared an agricultural emergency Neuqu?n, as cattle, horses and sheep can not feed themselves because the ash covered pasture. With emergency federal aid is maintained in the region.
According to the executive secretary of Emergency and Disaster livestock from Argentina, Haroldo Lebed, the government must declare on Monday that the national emergency to farmers in Patagonia affected by the disaster to be rescued with federal funds.
Over the weekend, an avalanche of ash stopped traffic on the main access to the border between Argentina and Chile, known as Cardenal Samore.
Geologists said the Chilean newspaper La Tercera that the Puyehue volcano continues to erupt and it is unpredictable to say when it will stop issuing ashes.
On Friday, the NMS of Argentina reported that the ashes had left the Southern Cone and were being carried by winds to the Atlantic Ocean. The takeoffs and landings were again held on Saturday and Sunday until late afternoon.
Predicting Argentine scientists was that the winds keep the ashes away from the region until Wednesday.
