INDONESIA-VOLCANO/BALI AIRPORT Bali airport resumes most flights after volcano eruption

Record ID: 147312

  • Title: INDONESIA-VOLCANO/BALI AIRPORT Bali airport resumes most flights after volcano eruption
  • Date: 13th July 2015
  • Summary: BALI, INDONESIA. (JULY 13, 2015) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF NGURAH RAI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT VARIOUS OF TRAVELLERS WALKING INTO DEPARTURE HALL VARIOUS OF PEOPLE ASKING FOR INFORMATION AT VIRGIN AUSTRALIA'S INFORMATION COUNTER (SOUNDBITE) (English) STRANDED PASSENGER WAITING TO TAKE A VIRGIN AUSTRALIA FLIGHT, NADINE (NO SURNAME GIVEN) SAYING: "All the flights for today are cance
  • Embargoed: 28th July 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Indonesia
  • Country: Indonesia
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA7YC2ANSNXU3R1H1HYJL23OM55
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: THIS EDIT CONTAINS MATERIAL WHICH WAS ORIGINALLY 4:3
    Although some flights remained cancelled at Indonesia's Bali airport on Monday (July 13), most had resumed, reducing the numbers stranded after a volcanic eruption caused the airport to close last week.
    Ngurah Rai International Airport on the popular resort island was closed twice in less than three days as ash from an eruption of Mount Raung in East Java Province blanketed the runway. Mount Raung is one of the most active volcanoes in the archipelago which is located on the "Ring of Fire".
    Stranded passengers were, however, still seen at the airport on Monday, many finding corners to sleep in as they awaited updates from their airlines. Virgin Australia flights arriving to Melbourne had yet to resume their service.
    "All the flights for today are cancelled, for yesterday. And I hear there are two planes coming in but they don't know if they fly out, I hoped to get on one of those, but no," said Nadine, a German passenger stranded at the airport.
    Some of those who were able to leave the island were not as keen to leave.
    "We wish our flight had been cancelled as well, because we don't want to go home. So, we're unlucky," said Nia, a traveller from the United Kingdom.
    Thousands of travellers have been stranded since Friday (July 10) last week after their flights were cancelled or delayed, airport authorities said.
    Mount Raung has been erupting for nearly a week, forcing several airports in the region to close and causing widespread flight disruption.
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