Adelaide's Gather Round: Travel Chaos & AFL Fever

Adelaide's gather round weekend kicked off with massive travel surges, turning the airport into a hotspot.

Over 30,000 passengers rode in on Monday alone, the busiest day of the year, thanks to interstate footy teams and fans flooding in for the AFL action.

Airlines added more than 100 extra domestic flights from Thursday, April 9th through Monday, April 11th to handle the demand spike.

But chaos hit the roads too, with a truck crash at Craifers grinding the southeastern freeways to a halt, forcing speeds down to 40 km per.

Hour and delays stretching up to 5 hours for commuters and gamegoers.

Travelers vented frustration online, posting pics of epic tailbacks in Facebook groups, while liberal leader Dan Teeke slammed the government for.

Poor, real-time road signs and push for freeway upgrades and afraid bypass to ease truck traffic.

A Thursday storm even bounced the Jet Star flight back to Melbourne, stranding fans with tight timelines to Carlton's clash at Adelaide Oval.

Premier Peter Malinowski is called it as, big as last year, maybe bigger, and tourism folks are hyping the bounce around the barossa bus to hit wineries.

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