Mount Ruang Eruption In North Sulawesi, Operational Wings Air Ternate Route Manado Temporarily Stops

The North SuLUT- The eruption of Mount Ruang in North Sulawesi (North Sulawesi) caused all flight activities of the Wings Air route Ternate (Ternate) Manado PP to not operate on Thursday 18 April.

"As a result of the volcanic eruption in North Sulawesi, the aircraft serving the Ternate-Manado PP route is provided with Wings Air type ATR600 with a capacity of 72 passengers and ATR 72-600 with a capacity of 77 people cannot operate," said the Coordinator of Pax Haldling Lion Air Ternate Branch, Alfian Hi Logah in Ternate, Thursday.

Therefore, the management immediately conveyed to all passengers to get to the Lion Air Group office to take the money according to the price of the ticket purchased, due to force majeure.

As is known, there are three Wings Air aircraft serving flights from Ternate-Manado three times a day in the morning and evening.

In addition, the Lion Air Group airline stated that flight tickets from Sultan Baabullah Ternate Airport to various cities in North Maluku (Malut) were sold out following increasing passengers on the backflow of D+8 Eid al-Fitr 1445 Hijriah.

"There are three airlines, namely Wings Air, Lion Air and Batik Air for flight tickets from Ternate to various cities in the North Maluku region, all of them since D-3 Eid al-Fitr until the time of D+8, all tickets have been sold out," he said.

He detailed, for the departure of Wings Air aircraft in a day of four flights and arrivals from Sultan Baabullah Airport, Ternate from various districts in North Maluku to Manado's Sam Ratulangi Airport.

Likewise, for Batik Air, the Jakarta-Ternate PP, Lion Air routes for the Makassar-Ternate PP, Jakarta-Ternate PP, Surabaya-Ternate PP and Makassar Ternate PP and the Makassar Ternate PP route airline were sold out.

In addition, Wings Air flights from Ternate have now become seven flights a day consisting of Ternate-Manado three times a day, and Ternate-Labuha PP, Ternate-Morotai, Ternate-Ambon PP each one flight per day, with all seats purchased by passengers.

He said, for the Ternate route to various cities such as Makassar and Jakarta using Lion Air Boeing 738 and Airbus aircraft with 189 passengers, three flights a day.

For the price of Ternate-Labuha tickets, IDR 1,030,000 per person, Ternate-Morotai IDR 1,036,200 thousand per person, Ternate-Manado IDR 1,531,100, Ternate-Ambon IDR 2,109,300, Ternate-Makassar IDR 2,720,473, Ternate-Surabaya IDR 3,940,052 and Ternate-Jakarta IDR 4,047,744.