...200 hotel guests after reportedly smashing an alarm during a stopover in Queenstown. The incident, reported in New Zealand newspapers said a female hostess ... by the pilot, causing a delay of flight AF2783 out of Queenstown until replacement crew could be flown from Christchurch. The Crowne Plaza ... the dismissal of two cabin crew members. "Flight QF2783 operating from Queenstown to Christchurch on 31 July was delayed due to a technical ...

... use of RNP technology. Broome, Kalgoorlie, Karratha and Mount Isa are the latest airports to join the RNP programme, with trials set to continue through to 2010. Qantas launched RNP procedures into and out of Queenstown airport, New Zealand, in September 2004. Two years later it added domestic RNP procedures at Alice Springs, Ayers Rock Uluru, Canberra, Gold Coast, Hobart, Sydney and Townsville. Cairns in Queensland was also part of...

... reported Tuesday. Chico's Restaurant Ltd. in the mountain resort of Queenstown on South Island pleaded guilty to a charge of selling food containing ... caused injury, the Southland Times newspaper said. Prosecutor Sarah McKenzie told Queenstown District Court that the two women were taken to a hospital ... Ferguson had ordered a glass of "Mountain Thunder" mulled wine from Queenstown's Old Man Rock Cafe, owned by Chico's Restaurant Ltd....

... seem to have had a ball. We were on a package tour which stayed four nights in a pub in Queenstown, then bussed to and from Wanaka each day. I went by myself on Friday, and spent most of the day wandering...bit sunburned. Next day my wife came with me. Good choice. It had rained most of the night at Queenstown, and going to breakfast it was not only wet but bloody cold! Fortunately the rain mostly cleared by Wanaka, but ...

..., you seem to have had a ball. We were on a package tour which stayed four nights in a pub in Queenstown, then bussed to and from Wanaka each day. I went by myself on Friday, and spent most of the day wandering... a bit sunburned. Next day my wife came with me. Good choice. It had rained most of the night at Queenstown, and going to breakfast it was not only wet but bloody cold! Fortunately the rain mostly cleared by Wanaka, but ...

... was used for the location of the New Covent Garden Market. Again this are along Nine Elms Lane cannot be described as transport blighted - Vauxhall station is at the north east end, whilst at the south west there are two stations - Battersea Park (on the line into Victoria) and Queenstown Road Battersea (on the line into Waterloo), both of which enjoy very regular services. And there's a regular bus service that runs up and down it.

... if you bend over a bit! I've taken trains from platform 7 a few times, in part just because I can and because it's something different from the norm, also because they don't stop at Vauxhall (or Queenstown Rd) so notionally they could get to Waterloo faster - however this often seemed to backfire, as those trains often seem to get held outside Waterloo waiting for a platform whilst across the tracks one can see the less exotic suburban ...

.... London Overground in particular becomes a lot more useful when viewed in those terms. It's a mystery to me why Camden Town/Camden Road isn't shown as a possible connection. I've certainly done the Queenstown Road - Battersea Park a few times, which may well be a shorter walk than between the extremes of Clapham Junction. I am very much in favour of a walkable Brixton interchange, no matter what. I believe that East Brixton ...

... complex - - Clapham has the Northern line + SLL - Clapham Junction - which is really in Battersea - is on the main lines to Waterloo and Victoria - also in Battersea, the almost adjacent Queenstown Rd and Battersea Park stations are on the main lines to Waterloo and Victoria respectively, albeit with less frequent services (plus Battersea Park is on the SLL - though courtesy of platform lengthening on the other lines ...

...is somewhat more complex - - Clapham has the Northern line + SLL - Clapham Junction - which is really in Battersea - is on the main lines to Waterloo and Victoria - also in Battersea, the almost adjacent Queenstown Rd and Battersea Park stations are on the main lines to Waterloo and Victoria respectively, albeit with less frequent services (plus Battersea Park is on the SLL - though courtesy of platform lengthening on the other lines this...