SEMARANG  The Ahmad Yani airport in Semarang, central Java, was forced to close down earlier on Tuesday. The runway of the airport was partially flooded with water up to ten centimeters. This caused the disruption of flights from and to the airport. The flights were diverted to the airport of Adi Sumarmo in Solo, also in central Java.

The runway was flooded over a length of 300 meters. The total length of the runway is 1.300 meters. Because the water doesn’t seem to recede, the airport operator has ordered the arrival of pumps to clean the runway as soon as possible. The airport should be opened again somewhere in the afternoon.

JAKARTA  PT Angkasa Pura II, the operator for Soekarno-Hatta international airport is ready to divert flights from the airport to the Halim Perdanakusuma airport in eastern Jakarta. This was announced by General Manager Edie Haryoto at the time the preparations were still ongoing earlier on Sunday. The airport will be used as an alternative for the time being because of floods at and around the Soekarno-Hatta international airport.

Edie told that the planned diversion of planes is arranged to catch up with the delay times of the planes that should land and depart at Soekarno-Hatta. According to Edie, all facilities like air traffic management, check-in and others were ready to be used for a number of flights.

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