JAKARTA - Bali's I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport announced a number of flights affected by the eruption of Mount Lewotobi Laki, in East Flores Regency, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), are now recovering.
"As of 10.30 WITA, we received 18 recovered flights which were previously postponed or canceled," said General Manager of I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport Ahmad Syaugi Shahab in a statement, in Denpasar, Tuesday, July 8, which was confiscated by Antara.
Mount Lewotobi Men erupted again at 11.05 WITA, Monday, July 7 yesterday, with a column of ash reaching 18,000 meters at the top of the mountain.
This eruption resulted in the cancellation of 24 flights and a number of delays on the Labuan Bajo, Australia, Singapore, and South Korea routes.
Ahmad Syaugi confirmed that today the 18 flights have recovered, including Qantas airlines with flights to Sydney-Denpasar-Sydney and Melbourne-Denpasar-Melbourne.
Furthermore, Air Busan two flights to Busan-Denpasar-Busan, Jetstar Airways two flights to Singapore-Denpasar-Melbourne, and Korean Air four flights to Incheon-Denpasar-Incheon.
The flights returning to operation are China Eastern two Pudong-Denpasar-Pudong flights, China Southern two flights to Guangzhou-Denpasar-Guangzhou, and Singapore Airlines two flights to Singapore-Denpasar-Singapore.
"All these flights are planned to depart today," said Ahmad Syaugi.
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I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport has carried out monitoring through a paper test which was held at 08.00-09.00 WITA this morning at four separate points at I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport, and the results did not find any exposure to volcanic ash.
"Until now, we have not received any information on flight cancellations, overall operations are running in an orderly and smooth manner, both the departure process and the arrival of passengers," he said.
The airport manager reminded prospective passengers to reconfirm their flight schedules to each airline, and to be at the airport 2-3 hours before the flight schedule for anticipation.
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