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Perth Airport is in chaos after desperately trying to recover from a total blackout due to a severe storm that criss-crossed the State. The flights are already running but there is a huge backlog with passengers trying to get through security. Hundreds of people with high vision were in Terminal 2 as regional flights took off. The line to pass through security is almost out the door as people race to make their flights on time. Terminal 1 is less chaotic, almost like a ghost town, as some flights are still cancelled. An airport spokesman said the terminals were “fully operational” as of 10pm last night, but the after effects of the impact could still be felt. Perth Airport has announced a thorough review of its backup power system in light of the power outage. While the backup power for the critical runway was turned on, the terminal went into chaos as the backup power failed to turn on. Chief executive Kevin Brown said a review would begin soon to understand why parts of t...

After nearly 30 years in business, Barb Moffat is considering closing the doors of his beloved bakery, as customers have stopped coming. “We have no, or almost no customers because they can’t park,” Moffat said. As COVID-19 restrictions ease in 2021, the main road in the central Queensland town of Gracemere returns to its normally busy highway. But in September, business owners said people had stopped shopping there because it was too difficult to park due to roadworks. “This is embarrassing… It’s just a nightmare,” said Moffat. “Parents can’t come, mostly every day there will be accidents. “We’ve suffered and suffered and I’m not the only one; FoodWorks, butchers, doctors, real estate … when will it stop?” Construction is ongoing to improve the Gracemere main road. ( ABC Capricornia: Rachel McGhee ) Construction is underway to upgrade Lawrie Road from two to four lanes, which is designed to reduce congestion...

Jaide Fisher, 26, traveling with friends and colleagues from Hawkesbury, was still queuing outside the festival at 8.30am on Friday, having arrived at 5.30pm on Thursday. “We finally decided to sleep on the back of our ute at 2.30 this morning as we hadn’t been moving for hours. We make a very uncomfortable bed to our Eskys on the ute tray,” he says. Fisher said all he wanted to do was “get out of here” but said the trio had spent $1000 each on the festival and were worried they would not receive a refund. “We don’t even want to go in anymore, but we wouldn’t leave if we were going to throw all that money away. After this experience, I will probably never go again,” he said as the line reached 15 hours. The artist who will be performing on Friday said Era and the Herald they worry about how they will get to the site on Friday in time to perform. “The ground staff did their best, but there was a lack of communication and we weren’t sure what wo...

Chaotic scenes emerge from the popular NSW music festival as heavy rains wreak havoc on attendees. Participants traveled to North Byron’s beautiful four-day festival, Splendor in the Grass, yesterday to start at 5pm. But bad weather has drenched the area, with some people forced to choose between sleeping in flooded campgrounds or in their cars. Tents were submerged in water, with some residents forced to seek alternative accommodation. ( ABC News: Tobias Loftus ) Load Others complain of waiting in long queues just to get into the site. Some frustrated ticket holders have taken to social media to raise their grievances. “Already in the car queue for 8.5 (hours), still potentially three hours to get to camp,” Harry Nicol wrote on his Twitter after midnight. Load Alex Gubbings told ABC News it took him about 12 hours to enter the Splendor page. “I think we were in line at about 4.30pm and we only got in at 4am,” Gubbings said. “It’s not moving, t...

Extremely long lines at airports and at immigration and customer desks, frequent flight delays or cancellations, often at the last minute, lost baggage and now-surging fares are not limited to Qantas, or Virgin, but are commonplace globally. The airport responded by limiting the number of passengers and asking airlines to limit their ticket sales. London’s Heathrow sparked controversy this month when it capped the number of passengers to 100,000 per day and ordered airlines to halt ticket sales until mid-August. London’s second international airport, Gatwick and Amsterdam’s Schiphol, has taken similar action. The pandemic brought the global travel industry to a virtual standstill, adding to pressure on airlines around the world. Credit: AP Airlines, which are pouring capacity back into the market as demand returns at surprising speed, are now picking up capacity to bring their operations within their current capabilities. British Airways has announced plans to cut 1...

There is chaos out there for travelers, but there are ways you can prepare. Photo: Jason South An hour and a half. That’s how long it took me to leave Sydney Airport a few weeks ago. One and a half hour. Ninety minutes. To go. Not to check in and go through security and board the plane. Just to grab my bag and jump in the car and leave. It was raining, so my plan to escape with my kids from the back row of the plane straight out the back door was thwarted. We were the last to get off. Then we had to wait for our baggage (which, in Virgin Australia’s judgment, finally turned up). And then we step outside to the mother of all traffic jams, absolute traffic jams, which doesn’t move a centimeter for good. Nightmare. Happy traveling in the post-middle era of this pandemic. It’s wild out there. Difficult. Airlines are struggling, going through a mix of bad luck and bad decisions. Airports are crazy. Luggage is missing. Flight is being cancel...

Qantas was forced to reschedule two flights from London’s Heathrow Airport this week, following the airport’s decision to impose a limit of 100,000 passengers per day in hopes of easing congestion amid extended delays. The London-Singapore-Sydney QF2 service will now depart nine hours earlier than usual – at 12pm, and from Heathrow’s Terminal 4 instead of the usual Terminal 3 – in a bid to avoid rush hour crowds. However, this will leave hundreds of passengers on the Airbus A380 superjumbo facing an 11-hour stopover in Singapore – with Qantas saying it will provide accommodation for passengers – before flights continue to Sydney on their regular schedule. The airline said it was contacting all passengers booked on Tuesday’s QF2 flight to warn them of the change. “Like all airlines, we are disappointed by the decision made by Heathrow Airport to suddenly reduce passenger capacity and we are doing everything we can to minimize this impact on our c...