REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, SOLO - Adi Soemarmo airport in Solo, Central Java, reopened on Thursday morning for both domestic and international flights, after it had been closed for six days when Mount Kelud erupted last week.
"The airport reopened first for the Garuda Indonesia flight GA 221 at 7.10 a.m. on Thursday from Solo to Jakarta with 89 passengers," Adi Soemarmo Airport Duty Manager Sugeng Budiyono, stated on Thursday.
He clarified that the airport reopened at 7 am, with the first flight from Garuda Indonesia, at 7.10 am, followed by Lion Air JT 531 for Jakarta with 175 passengers at 7.22 am, and then by Sriwijaya Air with 137 passengers at 7.40 a.m.
Besides these domestic flights, two international flights, Air Asia from Malaysia at 8.18 am, followed by Silk Air from Singapore, at 9.15 am local time, landed at the Adi Sumarmo airport.
The eruption of Mount Kelud in East Java last Thursday, had forced seven airports to close operations temporarily when the ashes scattered by the eruption drastically reduced visibility.
The seven airports that had been closed were Juanda in Surabaya, Adisumarmo in Solo, Adisucipto in Yogyakarta, Ahmad Yani in Semarang, Tunggul Wulung in Cilacap, Abdurrahman Saleh in Malang, and Husein Sastranegara in Bandung.
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