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Volcanic ash causes Indonesia airport closures
Topic Started: 10 Jul 2015, 10:49 PM (94 Views)
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Volcanic ash causes Indonesia airport closures

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Three airports in Indonesia, including in the tourist hotspot Bali, are to remain shut until at least Saturday, after a volcanic eruption.

Mount Raung in East Java has been spewing ash into the air for nearly a week, raising concerns it could interfere with aircraft safety.

Bali's Denpasar airport, a top destination for Australians, was closed late on Thursday, stranding travellers.

The government said this and two small airports in East Java would stay shut.

Earlier advice had been that all airports would remain out of action until late Friday.

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Jetstar and Virgin Australia have cancelled flights out of Bali's Denpasar airport

Indonesian transport ministry official JA Barata had said the re-opening of airports would be based on the activity on Mount Raung, which is about 120km (75 miles) from Denpasar airport.

He said Denpasar, and East Java's Blimbingsari and Notohadinegoro airports in East Java would be closed until 10:00 local time (03:00 GMT) on Saturday.

Lombok's international airport, and a smaller one on the island, were re-opened earlier on Friday.

Hundreds of flights have been postponed indefinitely or cancelled by airlines.

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Analysis: Chris Davies, Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre in Darwin, Australia

This volcano has been erupting for about a week and it's been streaming ash constantly.

It's not an explosive eruption, just a constant stream and because the summit is so high it doesn't take much ash to interfere with flights.

The most dangerous aspect for aviation is that modern jet engines pull in so much air and the ash concentrates in engines and turns into a kind of molten glass.

The ash melts, coats inside of the engine and affects fuel flow, so in the worst case scenario it can cause engines to shut off, like we say with the BA 009.

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The BBC's Alice Budisatrijo in Jakarta says the airport closures could not have come at a worse time, as the islands are popular with foreign and domestic tourists in the middle of the school holiday season.

Indonesians are also starting to travel home for the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, so the disruption of flights to the smaller airports are being felt by many families, says our correspondent.

American expat Katie Nagar described arriving at the domestic terminal at Denpasar to discover her flight to Jakarta on Indonesian flag carrier Garuda had been cancelled and rescheduled to Sunday.

She told AFP: "There's basically just hundreds of people camped out on the grassy lawns in front of the airport.

"There's lines of hundreds of people waiting to talk to customer service."

Victoria Welsby, from the UK, has been stranded at Denpasar airport since Thursday, when her flight to Cairns was cancelled.

She told the BBC that she was "completely in limbo" and "cannot do anything more" after Jetstar put her on an outbound flight that is only leaving in 10 days.

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