Dozens of Bali flights cancelled after Indonesia volcano erupts

Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki, located connected the land of Flores, discharged an 11km precocious file of ash connected Tuesday.

Dozens of flights to and from Indonesia’s edifice land of Bali person been cancelled aft a volcanic eruption successful the country’s eastbound spewed an tremendous ash unreality into the sky.

Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki successful the country’s East Nusa Tenggara state erupted precocious connected Tuesday, sending an 11km (6.84-mile) file of ash into the sky, according to Indonesia’s geological agency.

It raised the alert level to the highest of its four-tier strategy and said different eruption connected Wednesday greeting produced a smaller ash cloud.

No casualties person been reported. However, section authorities evacuated residents from respective villages adjacent the volcano arsenic a precaution.

Indonesia’s National Agency for Disaster Countermeasure, oregon BNPB, said tremors and eruptions were inactive recorded connected Wednesday morning.

Residents and tourists should debar activities wrong 7km (4.35 miles) of the volcano’s crater, the geological agency warned.

At slightest 32 flights to and from Bali were cancelled arsenic a effect of the eruption, Bali’s Ngurah Rai airdrome said.

The airdrome website showed routes from Australia, India and Singapore among those affected.

“Due to volcano enactment of Lewotobi Laki-Laki successful East Nusa Tenggara, respective flights astatine I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport are cancelled,” airdrome relation Angkasa Pura Indonesia said successful a statement.

Several home AirAsia flights bound for Labuan Bajo connected the land of Flores, wherever Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki is situated, were besides cancelled, arsenic were 4 Singapore Airlines flights betwixt Bali’s Denpasar airdrome and Singapore.

Passengers look astatine an physics committee displaying cancelled flights astatine Ngurah Rai airdrome connected June 18, 2025 [Sonny Tumbelaka/AFP]

Qantas’s low-cost bearer JetStar besides scrapped immoderate of its greeting flights from Bali to Australia.

“Forecasts amusement the ash unreality is expected to wide by aboriginal tonight. As a result, this afternoon’s flights volition beryllium delayed to run aboriginal this evening,” JetStar wrote successful an update connected its website.

Meanwhile, the Indonesian authorities decided to adjacent the Fransiskus Xaverius Seda airdrome successful Maumere until Thursday “to guarantee the information of the passengers”, Airnav, an airdrome operator, said successful an Instagram post.

Nine radical died portion thousands had to beryllium evacuated aft Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki erupted successful November.

Due to its determination connected the Pacific “Ring of Fire”, Indonesia experiences predominant seismic and volcanic activity.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies