{"id":15712,"date":"2025-11-18T12:02:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T23:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=15712"},"modified":"2025-11-18T12:02:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T23:02:39","slug":"whakaari-white-island-volcanic-ash-forces-flight-cancellations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=15712","title":{"rendered":"Whakaari\/White Island volcanic ash forces flight cancellations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whakat\u0101ne Airport says ash from Whakaari\/White Island has severely impacted services.<\/p>\n<p>Chief executive Mark Read said Air Chathams cancelled morning and afternoon flights in and out of Whakat\u0101ne on Tuesday due to the volcanic ash advisory.<\/p>\n<p>Air Chathams&#8217; Whakat\u0101ne services fly to Auckland, Paraparaumu and Whanganui.<\/p>\n<p>Volcanic ash also impacted flights at Tauranga Airport in the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Tauranga Airport manager Ray Dumble said it was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/579148\/tauranga-airport-cancels-flights-due-to-whakaari-white-island-ash\">forced to cancel the last four flights departing Tauranga on Monday night<\/a>, along with the first four departures on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Tauranga Airport has since resumed services as normal.<\/p>\n<p>The volcano was at alert level 3, denoting a minor eruption, and was seen releasing ash and steam over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Forty-seven people were on the Bay of Plenty volcano when it\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/575114\/whakaari-eruption-inquest-frustrated-families-want-answers\">erupted<\/a>\u00a0in December 2019, killing 22 and seriously injuring 25.<\/p>\n<p>Source: RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whakat\u0101ne Airport says ash from Whakaari\/White Island has severely impacted services. Chief executive Mark Read said Air Chathams cancelled morning and afternoon flights in and out of Whakat\u0101ne on Tuesday due to the volcanic ash advisory. Air Chathams&#8217; Whakat\u0101ne services fly to Auckland, Paraparaumu and Whanganui. Volcanic ash also impacted flights at Tauranga Airport in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15714,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15712\/revisions\/15714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}