After being
forced to close due to volcanic eruptions for a second time, Bali's Ngurah Rai
airport is allowing planes to take off again. Thousands of people hope it means
they'll be able to get home soon.
After a
seven-hour closure, Indonesian authorities reopened Bali's airport after the
danger posed by ash spewing from Mount Raung in neighboring East Java had
passed.
The
volcanic eruption caused travel chaos not only at Ngurah Rai airport in Bali,
but several other regional airports as the island is extremely popular with
international tourists, while at the same time locals are traveling ahead of
Eid celebrations to mark the end of Islam's holy month of Ramadan next week.
Mount Raung
has been exhibiting mild eruptions since June, but the latest more serious
clouds of ash created by the volcano forced runway shutdowns in Bali, Lombok,
Jember and Banyuwagi, with the latter remaining closed all of Sunday. The Bali
airport finally reopened being shut from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
This is the
second time this week that volcanic activity forced the Ngurah Rai airport to
halt all travel, stranding thousands of vacation goers, sometimes for days.
es/sms (AFP, dpa)
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