Bali Flights Cancelled due to Lewotobi Volcano Nov. 2024

[Saab34]

Should be good to go now.

 

[Harrison_133]

Virgin have scheduled a recovery flight departing Bali for Melbourne at 4:35pm using the MAX currently stuck there.

 

[jomar]

Qantas and Jetstar have just put out updates saying they're resuming operations to Bali (until the situation changes again…).

I would love it if Air New Zealand would provide similar information about their plans. They fly AKL-DPS on Sun/Wed/Fri. They cancelled yesterday's flight, and I'm on tomorrow's! It's currently still bookable, so fingers crossed…

 

[Stuckinbali]

Virgin have scheduled a recovery flight departing Bali for Melbourne at 4:35pm using the MAX currently stuck there.

Can I ask where you heard this, we are ones in Bali that have been pushed back a week from Tuesday. After ringing Virgin they offered us only one day sooner but via Melbourne to Sydney. Not understanding who will be offered a recovery flight as we haven’t been.

 

[Flyfrequently]

Can I ask where you heard this, we are ones in Bali that have been pushed back a week from Tuesday. After ringing Virgin they offered us only one day sooner but via Melbourne to Sydney. Not understanding who will be offered a recovery flight as we haven’t been.

I cannot answer your question but a warm welcome to AFF @Stuckinbali
Hope you can make the best of a frustrating situation.

 

[Stuckinbali]

FFS .

https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/flights-to-bali-grounded-after-volcanic-eruption-covers-sky-in-ash/news-story/3fb58aff02a641ce3ef03b5ea93d1c7d

I have a feeling Alexandra Feiam doesn’t get out much

I cannot answer your question but a warm welcome to AFF @Stuckinbali
Hope you can make the best of a frustrating situation.

Thanks AFF, would like to head home after a few weeks here, but not the end of the world, people in the world worse off than us. Got a nice little villa with a pool cheap for the extended stay so making the most of it

 

[DejaBrew]

Welcome aboard AFF @Stuckinbali and hopefully you'll be welcomed aboard a homeward bound flight sooner rather than later

 

[Harrison_133]

Can I ask where you heard this, we are ones in Bali that have been pushed back a week from Tuesday. After ringing Virgin they offered us only one day sooner but via Melbourne to Sydney. Not understanding who will be offered a recovery flight as we haven’t been.

The Virgin flight status page shows a VA9552 scheduled for today with Flight Radar assigning VH-8IH for the flight. VA95xx flight numbers are typically used for recovery flights, but the seat map for VA9552 currently shows the flight as being empty. I'd say the aircraft is repositioning back to Melbourne empty, probably to do with crew duty limits.

Usually repositioning flights use VA99xx flight numbers, but on second thought whenever they've had aircraft position empty from DPS to Australia in the past, they've all used VA95xx numbers. Probably something to do with Indonesian paperwork.

 

[Saab34]

Virgin said on ABC the 435pm is a recovery flight.

All airlines should have crews stuck in DPS so the return legs shouldn’t be an issue, can’t see why duty issues would be an issue, they have all had 3 days off in DPS.

 

[Harrison_133]

First flight to make a move – VA91 just departed Melbourne for Bali.

 

[p--and--t]

Both QF and JQ announced resuming flights (via ABC24)

 

[Saab34]

I think Virgin’s charter 435pm from DPS wasn’t a passenger flight it seems, the ABC said the opposite, but seat map has very few seats taken and it looks like crewing only.