Bali ash cloud: Jetstar resumes flights after Virgin, Tigerair cancel services

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Tips:Jetstar will resume flights to and from Bali on Wednesday, a day after a volcanic ash cloud grounded planes at the holiday destination during the busy school holiday period.

Jetstar will resume flights to and from Bali on Wednesday, a day after a volcanic ash cloud grounded planes at the holiday destination during the busy school holiday period.


The airline said at 7am on Wednesday that its pilots had made the decision to resume flights to and from Denpasar Airport on the latest information from the Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre after Mount Rinjani, near Lombok, began rumbling and ejecting ash into the atmosphere the previous day.

"We are looking at what additional flights can be scheduled to get people to their destinations. We will provide customers an updat later today," Jetstar said in a statement.


"As it is school holidays our whole network is extremely busy, so it will take us some time to get everyone on their way.

"We'll continue to monitor the movement of the ash cloud from Mt Rinjani and provide updates should conditions change."


Virgin Australia and Tigerair were yet to provide an updat on Wednesday morning.

Virgin Australia cancelled two flights out of Bali on Tuesday night - VA70 to Sydney and VA46 to Brisbane - as well as two flights from Australia to Bali that were due to depart on Wednesday: VA41 from Brisbane and VA65 from Sydney.


Virgin Australia said it would "monitor the situation closely and we will keep customers updated once new information becomes available".

Tigerair said it would updat its customers at 10.30am AEST on Wednesday, and delayed flights TT19 Perth-Bali and TT2 Bali-Melbourne.


"Tigerair Australia will work hard to minimise the inconvenience for any affected passengers disrupted as a result of volcanic ash cloud by getting them to wher they are going as soon as possible or with a range of provisions including free of charge transfer onto next available services," the company said.


"We continue to monitor the situation closely and will keep customers updated via SMS and email as soon as new information becomes available," the airline said.


"Passengers booked to travel on all other Tigerair services to and from Bali from 28 September 2016 are advised to check in for their services as per normal scheduled departure time unless otherwise notified by the airline."


On Tuesday night, Jetstar had grounded seven flights: JQ38 Bali-Sydney, JQ58 Bali-Brisbane, JQ116 Bali-Singapore, JQ128 Bali-Adelaide, JQ57 Brisbane-Bali, JQ116 Perth-Bali and JQ127 Adelaide-Bali.

 
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