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Lombok airport to operate ‘24 hours a day’, adds extra flights
Lombok International Airport in West Nusa Tenggara has decided to operate 24 hours a day, as tourists are rushing to leave the resort island following a 7.0-magnitude earthquake.
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Foreign tourists wait to leave Lombok at Lombok International Airport on Aug. 6, following a large earthquake. (Reuters/Beawiharta)
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ith an exodus of visitors rushing to leave Lombok Island following a 7.0-magnitude earthquake that hit West Nusa Tenggara on Sunday evening, Lombok International Airport has added extra flights
Lombok International Airport general manager I Gusti Ngurah Ardita said the extra flights included three Lion Air flights to Bali, Surabaya in East Java and Jakarta and a Garuda Indonesia flight to Bali's I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport. The four extra flights can accommodate up to 770 passengers. Meanwhile, Air Asia will operate an extra flight from Lombok to Kuala Lumpur, scheduled for Tuesday.
Ardita said the airport management also decided to begin temporarily operating 24 hours a day starting Monday..
“We expect a surge in the number of passengers who want to leave, so [operating 24 hours a day] allows airlines to add extra flights,” he said.
Meanwhile, Arie Ahsanurrohim, the head of the communications and legal division at state-owned airport operator PT Angkasa Pura I's Bali airport branch, said the Bali airport had not seen an increase in the number of passengers leaving the island, even though the island was also affected by the quake.
“There are no extra flights [bound from Bali]. Everything resumed as normal here,” he said. (swd)
