JAKARTA: Following days of shutdown due to ash from a volcanic eruption, Indonesia’s main airport and a number of other air transport hubs reopened early on Tuesday, according to the Transport Ministry. As the aviation safety crisis that left hundreds of thousands of travellers stuck fades, the ministry posted on Instagram that the airport servicing Jakarta, the country’s capital, and four others nearby or around the island of Java are now operational again.
On Saturday, Mount Anak Krakatau, which is roughly 150 kilometres (93 miles) from Jakarta, erupted, blasting a plume of volcanic ash and a fountain of lava. Ash was found in the airspace of eight airports over the weekend, interrupting roughly 3,000 flights and stranding over 340,000 people, according to a Monday report from the Transport Ministry.
The ministry announced on Instagram early on Tuesday that Jakarta’s airport and four others are operational once more. Following the current volcanic eruption activity of Mount Anak Krakatau, Soekarno-Hatta International Airport has resumed flight operations,” the main airport in Jakarta posted on Instagram.
The airport closures have previously been prolonged several times. After days of confusion at the airports, airlines now have the difficult challenge of getting all the stranded passengers aboard planes and to their intended destinations.
According to the Transport Ministry, the other four airports scheduled for reopening are Hussein Sastranegara in Bandung, the capital of West Java, and Halim Perdanakusuma, a minor airport in the Jakarta area that serves both civil and military flights. On Monday morning, operations at another small airport in South Sumatra resumed. Thus, two of the first eight remain closed.
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