This week’s aviation wrap is full of good news stories and huge sales – perfect for those in need of a Tuesday afternoon pick-me-up.

Australian travel companies were among those on the receiving end of a drop in share prices at the opening of the ASX200 this morning.

The major airport has also seen its number of passengers drop slightly due to capacity reductions and subdued demand in the domestic sector.

Those heading to South America will soon be able to do so in the comfort of one of Qantas’ top-notch tin cans.

Travellers flying from Sydney Airport have been met with massive delays due to an Australian Border Force outage and gale force winds.

There’s been more moving and shaking this past week in the travel industry than a show by Bangarra Dance Theatre, as this wrap proves.

According to one witness, the culprit was supposedly some batteries from a robotics conference.

Personally, we used the fog as an excuse to extend our Saturday morning sleep-in. You can’t leave the house if you can hardly see your front gate!

Travel Weekly took a leaf out of Spider-Man’s book by donning an alter-ego for airline news with the ‘aviation wrap’. Someone should have told us the red and blue leotard was optional.

Travel Weekly has prepared this week’s road and rail wrap as a short and punchy entrée to ease you out of the week and into the weekend. We’re good like that.

A Travel Weekly journalist was three hours late this morning because she couldn’t find her front gate in all the fog. She also slept in.

In breaking news, Sydney Airport is in chaos after its air traffic control tower was evacuated due to a fire.