#travel-disruption

#travel-disruption

Getting our suitcases off the fast train and onto the hopelessly overcrowded regional train was not exactly how we had imagined the start of our vacation.

A critical piece of multi-redundant hardware at Alaska Airlines' data centers experienced an unexpected failure, affecting several key systems without any involvement of hacking.

Strikes by French air traffic controllers affected over a million people's travel plans this month - and may be set to continue.

Network Rail is warning that the Brighton mainline railway via Gatwick Airport will be closed on Sunday 13th July for urgent repair works.

Several major East Coast airports, including Newark Liberty and Philadelphia International, have grounded flights in anticipation of severe thunderstorms and ground stops.

Police were called at around 10.10am today (13 June) to reports of a casualty on the tracks at West Hampstead Thameslink station.

The Sud-Rail union's strike notice covers weekends from April 17th to June 2nd, potentially disrupting travel over Easter and May public holidays.

One user said that 12 hours after landing, passengers were yet to receive "proper food or accommodation."

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A brush fire on Card Sound Road has led to the closure of one of the two major routes in and out of the Florida Keys, disrupting traffic from mainland Miami-Dade.

Several South Western train services to and from London Waterloo are cancelled, diverted or replaced by buses due to major engineering work this weekend.

A passenger's unruly behavior on a Wizz Air flight from London to Egypt forced an emergency landing in Athens, causing significant delays and police involvement.

In the town of Shirakawa, Gifu prefecture, 129 cm of snowfall in just 48 hours broke records, while Joetsu and Hokkaido also reported significant snow depth.

Wind gusts of up to 70 miles per hour were forecast, and the hills and coasts of the Irish Sea as well as southwestern Scotland could experience gusts of up to 100 m.p.h.