Garuda Airlines Cancel Flights to 4 Airports Due to Gunung Raung Eruptions

Gunung Raung eruptions this week have force shut down four airports in the Eastern Java, Bali and Lombok island. Gunung Raung is in the middle of East Java and its volcanic activity is in dangerous status right now. All airlines, domestic and international has diverted flights because of this event. Indonesian domestic airlines includes; Garuda Airlines, Sriwijaya, Lion Air etc.

Garuda Airlines respond to Gunung Raung eruptions by cancelling all flights to affected airports, is one of airline affected by this event. Official announcement have been posted at Garuda Airlines website, in Bahasa Indonesia :

Sehubungan dengan dampak dari erupsi Gunung Raung, Bondowoso, Jawa Timur sehingga ditutupnya 4 (empat) Bandara yaitu Bandara Ngurah Rai Denpasar, Bandara Belimbingsari Banyuwangi, Bandara Notohadinegoro Jember dan Bandara Lombok, maka berkaitan dengan erupsi tersebut Garuda Indonesia untuk sementara tidak mengoperasikan penerbangan dari dan ke 4 (empat) Bandara tersebut pada hari ini, Jum’at (10/07).

Adapun rute-rute penerbangan Garuda Indonesia yang terdampak oleh penutupan 4 (empat) Bandara tersebut, dan tidak beroperasi pada hari ini, Jum’at (10/07) adalah sebagai berikut :

    Denpasar -Jakarta pp (to and from)

    Denpasar - Surabaya pp

    Denpasar – Yogyakarta pp

    Denpasar – Timika pp

    Denpasar – Labuan Bajo pp

    Denpasar – Kupang pp

    Denpasar – Makassar pp

    Denpasar – Dili (codeshare) pp

    Denpasar – Banyuwangi pp

    Denpasar – Melbourne pp

    Denpasar – Sydney pp

    Denpasar – Perth pp

    Denpasar – Narita (Tokyo) pp

    Denpasar – Kansai (Osaka) pp

    Denpasar – Seoul pp

    Banyuwangi – Surabaya pp

    Jember – Surabaya pp

    Lombok – Sumbawa pp

    Lombok – Jakarta pp

    Lombok – Denpasar pp

Sebelumnya, pada hari ini, Jum’at (10/07), NOTAM “notice to airman” nomor SBA3810 092205 GG WADDYOYE 092205 WRRRYNYX (A1414/15 NOTAMR A1413/15 Q)WAAF/QFALC/IV/NBO/A/000/999/0845S11510E005 A)WASS B)1507092205 C)1507100130 E)AD CLSD DUE TO RAUNG MT ACTIVITY) telah dikeluarkan oleh Briefing Office Kementerian Perhubungan Republik Indonesia terkait dengan penutupan 4 (empat) bandara tersebut.

Dengan situasi tersebut, Garuda Indonesia memberlakukan kebijakan pembebasan biaya “cancellation fee”, “rebooking/reroute fee”, refund fee, “ADM fee” dan fee perubahan tiket lainnya bagi para penumpang yang telah memiliki jadwal penerbangan dari dan ke-4 (empat) kota tersebut.

more news at GARUDA website

We translated it for English reader:

Due to Gunung Raung (Raung Mount, Bondowoso, East Java) eruptions, four airports has been closed : Bandara Ngurah Rai Denpasar, Bandara Belimbingsari Banyuwangi, Bandara Notohadinegoro Jember dan Bandara Lombok. Therefore, Garuda Airlines will not operated flight to and from these four airports on Friday, July 10th 2015.

The routes that affected are listed above.

The official website also state that Garuda will activate free of “cancellation fee”, “rebooking/reroute fee”, refund fee, “ADM fee” for all routes that affected by this event.

Garuda Indonesia (24 hours) :
Call Center : 021-2351 9999 and 0804 1 807 807, is effectively online for further passanger's inquiries.

For Air Asia hotline:
Call center : +6221 2927 0999 atau 0804 1 333 333

MH17 Crash down in Ukraine

To added more misery for Malaysian Airlines, in the evening of July 17th, 2014, the world had learned that MH17 had been crashed down in Ukraine eastern border area. The plane flight route was from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.

Key infos:

- Plane flight at 33,000 ft altitude, just above the suggested restricted no flight zone of 0 ft to 30,000 ft.
- The location of crash is near the village of Grabovo.

- Total 283 passengers. Latest passengers manifesto :
Malaysia Airlines senior vice president Huib Gorter said there were at least 154 Dutch, 27 Australians, 23 Malaysians, 11 Indonesians, six Britons, four Germans, four Belgians, three Phillippinos and one Canadian aboard the Boeing 777 jet.

There were a further 47 passengers whose nationality was not yet known. All the 15 flight crew were Malaysian.

- Malaysia Prime Minister Najib Razak official press :
Yesterday evening, I was informed of the terrible and deeply shocking news that a Malaysia Airlines jet went down in eastern Ukraine.

Malaysia Airlines has confirmed that the jet was Malaysia Airlines flight 17, which was on a scheduled flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.

The flight departed Amsterdam at 12.15pm, local time. It was scheduled to arrive in Kuala Lumpur at 6.10 am, local, Malaysian time.

The aircraft was a Boeing 777-200.

The aircraft’s flight route was declared safe by the International Civil Aviation Organisation.

And International Air Transportation Association has stated that the airspace the aircraft was traversing was not subject to restrictions. ---- more at Official Malaysian Airlines Website

- Australia Prime Minister:
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said it would be an "unspeakable crime" if the aircraft was proven to have been shot down.

"If it does turn out that this aircraft was brought down by a surface-to-air missile, there is no doubt this would be - under those circumstances - an unspeakable crime and the perpetrators should swiftly be brought to justice," he said.

- Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko
On Twitter, Mr Poroshenko described the incident as an attack by terrorists.

"This is not an incident or catastrophe, it is a terrorist attack.
We do not exclude that the plane was shot down and confirm that the Ukraine Armed Forces did not fire at any targets in the sky," Mr Poroshenko said in a statement posted on the president's website.

- Russian President Putin, via spokesperson
The president of Russia asked the prime minister of Malaysia to convey his deepest sympathy and support to the victims' families.

- US President Barrack Obama
    The world is watching reports of a downed passenger jet near the Russia/Ukraine border, and it looks like it may be a terrible tragedy.

    I have directed my national security team to stay in close contact with the Ukrainian government. The United States will offer any assistance we can to help determine what happened and why.

    And as a country, our thoughts and prayers are with all the families of the passengers, wherever they call home.

- Boeing
 Our thoughts and prayers are with those on board the Malaysia Airlines airplane lost over Ukrainian airspace, as well as their families and loved ones. 

    Boeing stands ready to provide whatever assistance is requested by authorities.

Photos from mainstream website:

- Most known and important info regarding who bringing down the plane come from this:

Info Jadwal Penerbangan Akibat Erupsi Gunung Kelud

Menyusul erupsi abu di gunung Kelud hari Kamis malam tanggal 13 / 14 February 2014, berikut adalah info jadwal dari maskapai penerbangan yang terkena dampaknya.

Update terbaru dari Pihak Airport (Sabtu, 15 Februari 2014, 08.00 WIB)

Informasi dari Pihak Airport per jam 08.00 WIB : 

1. Airport Juanda, Surabaya ditutup s.d pkl 14.00 hari Sabtu 15 Februari 2014.
2. Airport Ahmad Yani, Semarang masih dievaluasi.
3. Airport Adi Soemarmo,  Solo ditutup s.d pkl 06.00 Senin 17 Februari 2014.
4. Airport Adi Sucipto, Yogyakarta ditutup s.d pkl 07.00 Selasa 18 Februari 2014.
5. Airport Abdurahman Saleh, Malang sudah beroperasi
6. Airport Tunggul Wulung, Cilacap sudah beroperasi.
7. Airport Husein Sastranegara, Bandung ditutup s.d pkl 12.00, hari Sabtu 15 Februari 2014

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Air Asia info as per Minggu, 16 February 2014

Selamat Pagi! Seluruh penerbangan dari dan ke Surabaya (kecuali ke Bandung) kembali beroperasi.
Dan juga seluruh penerbangan dari dan ke Semarang kembali normal.
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AirAsia kembali mengoperasikan beberapa rute dari dan menuju Jakarta, dimana keputusan ini diambil berdasarkan situasi dan kondisi terkini yang dinilai tidak membahayakan operasional penerbangan.

Adapun penerbangan yang kembali dioperasikan adalah sebagai berikut:

1.     Jakarta – Bali
2.     Jakarta – Medan
3.     Jakarta – Penang
4.     Jakarta – Bangkok
5.     Jakarta – Singapura
6.     Jakarta – Kuala Lumpur
7.     Jakarta – Phuket
8.     Jakarta – Johor Bahru

Sementara itu, rute penerbangan Jakarta – Yogyakarta dan Jakarta – Surabaya masih dihentikan sementara waktu hingga kembali dibukanya Bandara Internasional Adisutjipto dan Bandara Internasional Juanda.

Untuk informasi dan bantuan lebih lanjut, pelanggan AirAsia dapat menghubungi:

1.    Call center di nomor 021 2927 0999
2.    Ask AirAsia melalui www.airasia.com/ask
3.    Kirimkan pertanyaan melalui formulir online di http://www.airasia.com/id/en/e-form.page
4.    Live Chat (tersedia melalui Ask AirAsia saat Anda login menggunakan ID keanggotaan AirAsia).

AirAsia akan terus memantau perkembangan kondisi terkini dan memberikan informasi terbaru kepada pelanggan.

Untuk informasi terkini, Anda juga bisa mengikuti Twitter kami (@AirAsiaID) atau Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/airasiaindonesia).

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Info Lion Air :

Informasi Pembatalan Penerbangan Terkait Bencana Gn. Kelud:

Tanggal 15 Pebruari 2014
Seluruh Penerbangan ke/dari Surabaya, Malang, Jogjakarta, Solo, Semarang, Banyuwangi dan Bandung tidak beroperasi.

Tanggal 16 Pebruari 2014
Seluruh Penerbangan dari Pagi s/d Jam 11.00 Wib rute ke/dari Surabaya, Malang, Jogjakarta, Solo, Semarang, Banyuwangi dan Bandung tidak beroperasi.
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Penerbangan di Pulau Jawa terkena dampak abu vulkanik gunung Kelud

photo Antara

Rute Pesawat Yang Pindah Ke Bandara Halim Perdana Kusuma

Seperti yang diberitakan di harian-harian nasional, berikut daftar rute-rute pesawat yang berpindah landing point dari bandara Soekarno Hatta menjadi Halim Perdana Kusuma:

Maskapai Citilink -- Mulai 10 Jan 2014
1. Jakarta - Jogjakarta
2. Jakarta - Semarang
3. Jakarta - Malang

Garuda Indonesia -- Mulai Feb 2014
1. Jakarta - Surabaya
2. Jakarta - Semarang
3. Jakarta - Palembang
4. Jakarta - Jogjakarta
5. Jakarta - Pontianak

Airasia -- Mulai Maret 2014
1. Jakarta - Jogjakarta
2. Jakarta - Medan
3. Jakarta - Surabaya

Pengalihan ini dikarenakan over load nya air traffic di bandara Soekarno-Hatta. Namun pemindahan ini juga berpotensi membuat penumpang yang melakukan penerbangan transfer menjadi lebih sulit. Misalnya penumpang dengan pesawat Jakarta - Jogjakarta Citilink harus berpindah airport dari Halim Perdana Kusuma menuju Soekarno-Hatta untuk mengejar pesawat transfernya yang masih beroperasi di sana. Demikian informasi ini sesuai diberitakan media massa nasional.

Airplanes to Switch Landing Airport From Soekarno-Hatta to Halim Perdana Kusuma Jakarta

Effectively January 10th, 2014, Indonesian airlines services Citilink going to switch three of its flight to landed in Halim Perdana Kusuma airport, instead of Soekarno Hatta. This switch of landing point also happened to Garuda Indonesia and Air Asia flights. This move is due to air traffic overload in Soekarno-Hatta. Passenger from foreign should takes notes that if you need to transfer flight from Soekarno Hatta to Halim Perdana Kusuma, the transfer time can takes up to one hour ride dependent on road traffic jam. Please plan and be prepared if your flight required you to commuted between these two airports in Jakarta.

The List of Routes that affected is as below:

Citilink -- Effectively starts from 10 Jan 2014
1. Jakarta - Jogjakarta
2. Jakarta - Semarang
3. Jakarta - Malang

Garuda Indonesia -- Starts Feb 2014
1. Jakarta - Surabaya
2. Jakarta - Semarang
3. Jakarta - Palembang
4. Jakarta - Jogjakarta
5. Jakarta - Pontianak

Airasia -- Starts March 2014
1. Jakarta - Jogjakarta
2. Jakarta - Medan
3. Jakarta - Surabaya

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