Bali flights cancelled due to dangerous volcanic ash

Several airlines person cancelled flights betwixt Australia and Bali owed to unsafe ash clouds from a volcano adjacent the Indonesian vacation island.

Qantas, Jetstar and Virgin Australia advised passengers of the disruptions connected Wednesday, saying the ash from Mount Lewotaobi Laki-laki made it unsafe to fly.

The volcano spewed a 9km (6.2 miles) ash file into the entity implicit the weekend, 1 week aft a major eruption killed 10 people.

Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology has besides warned that the volcanic ash mightiness drift to parts of the country's northbound connected Wednesday.

Jetstar said each flights to and from Bali until 12:00 Australian Eastern Daylight Time Thursday (04:00 GMT) person been cancelled. Virgin Australia cancelled each its flights to and from Bali connected Wednesday.

Jetstar besides said it would soon equine further flights betwixt Bali and Australia utilizing its larger Boeing 787 craft to determination much passengers.

Activities successful Indonesia person besides been affected by the volcanic ash.

A jazz festival successful Labuan Bajo town, immoderate 600km from Mount Lewotaobi Laki-laki, was postponed to adjacent twelvemonth owed to information concerns.

Indonesia sits connected the Pacific “Ring of Fire”, an country of precocious seismic enactment atop aggregate tectonic plates, and has astir 130 progressive volcanoes.

Past volcanic eruptions person disrupted aviation. In 2020, ash clouds from Mount Merapi unopen an airdrome successful the metropolis of Solo.