{"id":139903,"date":"2025-11-17T18:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T18:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/139903\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T18:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T18:47:07","slug":"tauranga-airport-cancels-flights-due-to-whakaari-white-island-ash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/139903\/","title":{"rendered":"Tauranga Airport cancels flights due to Whakaari\/White Island ash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RNZ<\/p>\n<p>17 Nov, 2025 05:48 PMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Ash from Whakaari\/White Island has forced Tauranga Airport to cancel eight flights. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Ash from Whakaari\/White Island has forced Tauranga Airport to cancel eight flights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Airport manager Ray Dumble said the last four flights departing Tauranga on Monday night had been cancelled, with the first four departures on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         The volcano is currently at alert level<br \/>\n         3, denoting a minor eruption, and has been seen releasing ash and steam over the weekend.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">Forty-seven people were on the Bay of Plenty volcano <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/bay-of-plenty-times\/news\/whakaari-eruption-inquest-hears-horror-of-survivors-left-without-rescue\/CATWS3DXIRBR5ATD44ZGHDEV4M\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/bay-of-plenty-times\/news\/whakaari-eruption-inquest-hears-horror-of-survivors-left-without-rescue\/CATWS3DXIRBR5ATD44ZGHDEV4M\/\">when it erupted in December 2019<\/a>, killing 22 and seriously injuring 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RNZ 17 Nov, 2025 05:48 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2681,4921,28721,5910,6562,2514,111,43,139,69,1227,61,79412],"class_list":["post-139903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-airport","tag-ash","tag-cancels","tag-due","tag-flights","tag-island","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tauranga","tag-to","tag-whakaariwhite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}