Flights At Lombok Airport Not Affected By Mount Merapi Eruption

Lombok International Airport/Photo: Antara

CENTRAL LOMBOK - PT Angkasa Pura I, Lombok International Airport, West Nusa Tenggara, stated that current flight activities are not affected by the eruption of Mount Merapi's hot clouds on the border of Sleman Regency, Yogyakarta Special Region and Central Java because it is heading to the southeast. "All logging is still normal. all," said Public Relations of PT Angkasa Pura I at Lombok International Airport Arif Haryanto in Praya, Lombok Tengaj, West Nusa Tenggara, Thursday, March 10. He said domestic flight routes at Lombok Airport were still operating, namely Lombok from Jakarta, Surabaya, Bali, Makassar, Sumbawa and Bima. Meanwhile, there are no routes from abroad, except for the logistics for the MotoGP event at the Mandalika Circuit, Lombok on March 18-20. Antara.Gunung Merapi is experiencing an increase in activity as indicated by the emergence of falling hot clouds an (APG) as far as 5,000 meters. All residents of Kalitengah Lor, Glagaharjo, Cangkringan had taken refuge in Glagaharjo Village Hall and were asked to remain vigilant.

Meanwhile, said Arif Haryanto, the number of passenger movements ahead of the Mandalika MotoGP event was still the same as the previous day, namely an average of 4,000 per day arriving and departing. Passengers at Lombok Airport are currently relatively sloping, there has been no significant increase at the beginning of March so that with the new policy from the central government which has begun to relax the requirements for domestic flights at airports and ports without antigen swab tests or PCR for passengers, complete vaccine doses are expected to able to increase the number of passengers from the previous day. "Passengers are currently relatively sloping," he said.