Flights disrupted as Chile's Calbuco volcano spews more ash

Puerto Varas, Chile

ASH from Chile's spewing Calbuco volcano threatened on Saturday to spell travel misery in the region and beyond after it triggered the cancellation of domestic and international flights in several cities.

A sleeping giant for more than 50 years, the volcano sprang to life in spectacular bursts of ash and lava on Wednesday and Thursday, forcing 6,500 people living nearby to evacuate and blanketed southern Chile in suffocating volcanic debris.

It coughed out more fire and ash on Saturday, with an ash cloud drifting eastward over Patagonia and Argentina, reaching Buenos Aires 2,000 kilometres away, where some airlines cancelled flights to a…