Juanda Airport's Runway Under Repair, 27 Flights Disrupted  

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The repair of that runway that was peeled-off at Juanda International airport in Surabaya has disrupted the schedule of a number of flights.

Trikora Harjo, General Manager of state-owned airport operator PT Angkasa Pura I Cabang Juanda reported that at least 27 flights were re-scheduled to the repair process.

The flights were from several airlines such as Garuda Indonesia (four flights), Batik Air (two flights), Lion Air (eight flights), Eva Air (two flights), Air Asia (five flights), Sriwijaya Air (two flights), Citilink (one flight) and China Airlines (one flight).

"The airlines have already informed the passengers (about the re-schedule),” Trikora said.

According to Trikora, the re-scheduled flights departed between 10pm until 5am in the following day.

For the record, PT Angkasa Pura I was scheduled to repair 7,380 meter square of runway or around 0.8 percent of the total area of the airport. The length of the damaged runway is 410 meter long and 18 meter wide.

"We hope that the repair would be completed by the end of March,” he said.

Previously, Head of Public Relation Section of PT Angkasa Pura I Bandara Juanda, Andrias Yustinian said that the runway that was peeled-off has a diameter of 15 to 70 centimeter and the condition is considered dangerous if it is not immediately repaired.

MOHAMMAD SYARRAFAH