Photo archive - Airplane flying amid overcast conditions. (ANTARA PHOTO/Yusran Uccang/hp/rst)Makassar (ANTARA) - Several aircraft flight routes to the Sultan Hasanuddin International Airport in Makassar, Maros, South Sulawesi, were diverted to other airports on account of bad weather on Monday.
"Heavy rain in Makassar caused several flights to be diverted to other airports," Stakeholder Relations Manager of the Sultan Hasanuddin International Airport Iwan Risdianto told ANTARA on Monday.
Risdianto remarked that several flight routes from the Sultan Hasanuddin Airport were diverted to I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport in Bali, including Lion Air JT3740 for the Bali-Makassar route, Citilink QG332 for the Jakarta-Makassar route, Lion Air JT3955 for the Merauke-Makassar route, and Lion Air JT853 for the Palu-Makassar route.
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Furthermore, other flights diverted to Kendari Haluleo Airport included Lion Air JT997, Kendari-Makassar route; Wings Air IW2333, Mamuju-Makassar route; and Wings Air IW1309, Maumere-Makassar route.
Likewise, another flight that was diverted to Juanda Airport in Surabaya was Lion Air JT675 for the Balikpapan-Makassar route.
As for the delayed flights, the Lion Air JT996 flight on the Makassar-Kendari route was delayed for 45 minutes, while the Citilink QG332 flight on the Makassar-Kendari route was delayed for 120 minutes.
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The diversion and delay of flights were due to the impact of bad weather from February 20 until today, with a fairly high intensity of rainfall in Makassar.
Earlier, the Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) Region IV Makassar, South Sulawesi, issued an early warning of moderate to heavy rainfall in the South Sulawesi region for four days on February 20-23, 2022.
Acting Head of the BMKG Region IV Makassar Irwan Slamet, through a press release on Friday, stated that the latest monitoring results of atmospheric dynamics indicate the likelihood of increased rainfall in the South Sulawesi region.
"Based on the prospects of atmospheric dynamics, it shows the likelihood for increased rainfall in the South Sulawesi region," Slamet noted.
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