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Australia's Qantas Airways Ltd. grounded its entire fleet Saturday over a bitter labor dispute in an unprecedented move that the government said it would ask a labor tribunal to stop.

Workers have been striking against Qantas' plans to restructure the airline, a move that is expected to result in almost 1,000 job cuts.

Whitney Hudson was almost kicked off a Delta Airlines flight, when the singer refused to fasten her seatbelt. Well certainly does not sound like the behavior of an adult in her senses, but she was under the influence of no drugs! TMZ quoted multiple resources as saying that Whitney boarded a flight in Atlanta on Wednesday afternoon ... and when she settled into her seat, a stewardess kindly asked her to buckle up her seat belt.

The planned layoffs would reportedly include management, pilots, cabin crew and engineers. The company has a total of 35,000 employees.

Is a film called "The Female Orgasm Explained" appropriate for a settle as public as an airplane?

The in-flight entertainment on some planes run by Australian airline Qantas currently contains a somewhat unusual offering -- a movie that purports to elucidate the mysteries of female sexual pleasure.

The volcanic ash cloud over the eastern part of Australia is costing the tourism sector more than $10 million a day, an industry group says.

Australia is in for round 2 of the menacing Chilean ash cloud. Thousands of air passengers will be left stranded as flights to and from South Australia are cancelled due to volcanic ash from Chile’s Puyehue volcano again this week.

Chile's volcanic ash cloud has lapped the world and is expected to affect Australian flights starting Tuesday in Adelaide.

Virgin Australia Ltd. said that it will suspend flights in and out of the southern city of Adelaide on Tuesday as dust from a Chilean volcano returns to Australian airspace.

Both Qantas and Virgin Australia canceled flights that were scheduled for Thursday to New Zealand and (until early morning) to the western Australian city of Perth as the ash cloud from Chile’s Puyehue volcano continued to spread and strand thousands more travelers.

The Puyehue volcano, which lies on the border between Chile and Argentina, continued to spew ash over the Andes and Patagonia regions of South America on Tuesday, grounding flights across the Southern Hemisphere.

Australia's two largest airlines continue to disagree with each other on how to deal with the safety risk posed by the cloud of ash from a Chilean volcano on Tuesday.

The ash clouds from Chile’s Puyehue volcano are causing travel chaos across the Southern Hemisphere from South America to Australia and New Zealand, stranding thousands of passengers.

The volcanic ash cloud from Chile’s Puyehue volcano left thousands of travelers stranded and hundreds of flights backlogged over the past two days in Australia and New Zealand as strong winds carried the ash more than halfway across the world.

Some of the flights cancelled on June 9, eight days after a Chilean volcano started erupting , have still been held in abeyance due to ash cloud created by a volcanic eruption.

Qantas Airways Ltd has cancelled all the flights in and out of Melbourne from Sunday evening due to a volcanic eruption in southern Chile.

Last week we had snakes on a train. This week there’s rats on a plane.

The Australian share market pared early losses to close around 0.2 per cent higher, as investors snapped up bank stocks and other cyclicals with attractive dividend yields.

The violent protests in Egypt could deal a major blow to the country’s vital tourism industry, a development that could be economically crushing to the already riot-ravaged country.

Heavy snow and ice grounded air travel across Europe for a third day on Monday leaving thousands of passengers stranded even as airports struggled to clear a backlog of flights cancelled or delayed by snowfalls.