JAKARTA — Hundreds of passengers we

JAKARTA — Hundreds of passengers were stranded overnight at Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport as five flights of low-cost carrier Lion Air were delayed due to operational issues for more than 12 hours on Sunday evening (July 31)

Flights were delayed overnight for passengers of Lion Air’s JT 650 to Lombok International Airport in Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara; JT 630 to Fatmawati Soekarno Airport in Bengkulu; JT 590 and JT 582 to Juanda Airport in Surabaya, East Java; and JT 526 to Syamsuddin Noor Airport in Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan.

Initially, Lion Air officers at Soekarno-Hatta Airport told the passengers that delays were caused by bad weather.

As time passed on, passengers grew impatient and blocked the runway of terminal 1A at Soekarno Hatta Airport, but the airport authorities managed to persuade passengers to return inside the terminal for safety reasons.

Mr Edward Sirait, president director of Lion Air, explained in a written statement on Monday morning that the main cause of delays were due to difficulties in managing the crew’s roster. Once this was resolved, the destination airports were closed for operations leaving the airline little choice but to reschedule the flights to the next day.

“We were resolving issues with the crew roster and finding replacement crew which caused a delay. However, once we were able to find replacement crew, the destination airports operating hours were limited so we needed to reschedule flights to (Monday) morning,” Mr Sirait said adding that all five delayed flights have now departed from Soekarno-Hatta Airport.

He said that the airline provided compensation to passengers whose flights were delayed.

“We apologise for this inconvenience and we are trying to make sure (Monday’s) flights run normally,” Mr Sirait said.

Earlier this year, the airline also triggered a terminal mix-up fiasco at Soekarno-Hatta Airport when its ground handling staff took 182 passengers arriving on a flight from Singapore on May 10 to the airport’s domestic arrivals terminal instead of the international arrivals.

The Transportation Ministry issued a five-day suspension to Lion Air’s ground handling activities but the sanction was revoked several days before it was slated to be implemented. JAKARTA GLOBE

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JAKARTA — Ratusan penumpang terdampar semalam di Bandara Internasional Soekarno-Hatta Jakarta sebagai lima penerbangan low-cost carrier Lion Air yang tertunda karena permasalahan operasional selama lebih dari 12 jam pada hari Minggu malam (31 Juli)Penerbangan tertunda dalam semalam untuk penumpang Lion Air JT 650 menuju Bandara Internasional Lombok di Lombok, Nusa Tenggara Barat; JT 630 ke Bandara Fatmawati Soekarno Bengkulu; JT 590 dan JT 582 menuju Bandar Udara Juanda di Surabaya, Jawa Timur; dan JT 526 ke Bandara Syamsuddin Noor di Banjarmasin, Kalimantan Selatan.Pada awalnya, Lion Air petugas di Bandara Soekarno-Hatta mengatakan kepada para penumpang bahwa penundaan yang disebabkan oleh cuaca buruk.Sebagai waktu terus berlalu, penumpang menjadi tidak sabar dan diblokir di landasan pacu 1A terminal di Bandara Soekarno Hatta, tetapi pihak berwenang Bandara berhasil membujuk penumpang untuk kembali dalam terminal untuk alasan keamanan.Mr Edward Sirait, Presiden Direktur Lion air, menjelaskan dalam sebuah pernyataan tertulis pada Senin pagi bahwa penyebab utama dari penundaan karena kesulitan dalam mengelola daftar kru. Setelah ini diselesaikan, Bandara tujuan ditutup untuk operasi meninggalkan maskapai sedikit pilihan tetapi untuk menjadwal ulang penerbangan ke hari berikutnya."Kami menyelesaikan masalah dengan daftar kru dan menemukan penggantian kru yang menyebabkan penundaan. Namun, setelah kami dapat menemukan pengganti kru, Bandara tujuan operasi jam yang terbatas sehingga kami harus menjadwal ulang penerbangan ke pagi (Senin),"Mr Sirait mengatakan menambahkan bahwa semua lima penerbangan tertunda sekarang telah berangkat dari Bandara Soekarno-Hatta.Dia mengatakan bahwa maskapai diberikan kompensasi kepada penumpang penerbangan yang tertunda."Kami Mohon maaf atas ketidaknyamanan ini dan kami berusaha untuk membuat yakin (Senin) penerbangan berjalan normal," kata Mr Sirait.Awal tahun ini, maskapai juga memicu kegagalan campur-baur terminal di Bandara Soekarno-Hatta ketika tanahnya penanganan staf mengambil penumpang 182 tiba pada penerbangan dari Singapura pada tanggal 10 Mei ke bandara domestik kedatangan terminal bukan kedatangan internasional.Menteri Transportasi dikeluarkan suspensi lima hari untuk Lion Air Tanah penanganan kegiatan tapi sanksi dicabut beberapa hari sebelum itu direncanakan akan dilaksanakan. JAKARTA GLOBE