Lewotobi Laki-Laki: Flight cancellations to Bali due to volcanic eruption

Today jemina. New Wednesday 13th November 2024 12:11 PM REPORT

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Dozens of flights to Bali are canceled due to volcanic eruption

The Lewotobi Laki-Laki volcano throws hot ash into the air. The nearby airport is severely affected by flight cancellations.

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In the last three days, 46 flights had to be canceled due to the eruption of the Lewotobi Laki-Laki volcano in Indonesia.

Photo: Keystone

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International airlines still have because of this eruptiven Vulkans Lewotobi Male Flights to and from the Indonesian tourist island of Bali were canceled on Wednesday. The volcano has disrupted traffic at I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport since the eruptions began early last week, airport director Ahmad Syaugi Shahab said. In the past three days, 46 flights were affected.

According to media reports, thousands of holidaymakers were stranded. “The airline didn’t provide accommodation, so we were stranded at this airport,” said Charlie Austin of Perth, Australia, who was vacationing in Bali with his family. His compatriot Issabella Butler said she had rebooked on another airline to get home.

“Cancel Due To Volcano”: A passenger checks the departure board at Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali (November 13, 2024).

Photo: Firdia Lisnawati (Keystone)

The 1,584 meter high volcano on the remote island of Flores is still spewing hot ash – at least 17 times on Tuesday alone. The largest ash column reached a height of nine kilometers, according to the Center for Volcanology. The authorities expanded the danger zone around the volcano to nine kilometers again because volcanic material, including smoldering rocks, lava and hot, thumb-sized pieces of gravel and ash, were thrown up to eight kilometers from the crater. There was an outbreak at the beginning of last week nine people killed and 64 were injured.

Lewotobi Laki-Laki is one of the 120 active volcanoes in Indonesia. The country with around 280 million inhabitants lies on the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, a zone along the coast of the Pacific Ocean where plates of the earth’s crust shift against each other, which is why earthquakes and volcanic eruptions often occur there.