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| Darwin flights to resume on Sunday as volcano plumes clear | Darwin flights to resume on Sunday as volcano plumes clear |
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| Flights to and from Darwin will resume on Sunday after being grounded by the ash cloud from the Sangeang Api volcano. | |
| Virgin flights will resume at 4.30pm Darwin time; Qantas flights are also expected to resume on Sunday afternoon. | |
| Regional carrier Airnorth is operating and Jet Star flights are likely to resume as plumes from the volcano clear throughout the day, a Darwin international airport spokeswoman, Virginia Sanders, said. | |
| The deputy prime minister, Warren Truss, said on Sunday that Airservices Australia was continuing to monitor the situation and passengers were advised to contact their airlines for information. | |
| All flights heading through northern Australia to overseas destinations would continue to avoid the area until this afternoon. | |
| The Bureau of Meteorology’s volcanic ash advisory centre would continue to keep airlines, the Civil Aviation Safety Authority and Airservices Australia updated, Truss said. | |
| The ash plume that may have affected flights into and out of Cairns and Townsville on Sunday had dispersed and would not affect flights. Brisbane flights also would be unaffected. | |
| Decisions on whether or not flights would operate would be made by individual airlines and operators, said Truss. | |
| Darwin was completely cut off by air on Saturday as three ash plumes billowed from the Indonesian volcano. | Darwin was completely cut off by air on Saturday as three ash plumes billowed from the Indonesian volcano. |
| Sangeang Api, off the Indonesian island of Sumbawa, erupted continuously after an initial blast on Friday afternoon. | Sangeang Api, off the Indonesian island of Sumbawa, erupted continuously after an initial blast on Friday afternoon. |
| The main plume affecting Australian aviation swept south-east over the west side of the Northern Territory and as far south as Alice Springs. | The main plume affecting Australian aviation swept south-east over the west side of the Northern Territory and as far south as Alice Springs. |
| The manager of the Darwin volcanic ash advisory centre, Emile Jansons, said the plumes affecting Darwin were weakening. | |
| "The weather pattern has changed so that it's less likely to come down and affect Australian airspace," he said. | |
| He stressed the plumes posed no threat to the health of people on the ground and would not even be noticed by the naked eye. | He stressed the plumes posed no threat to the health of people on the ground and would not even be noticed by the naked eye. |
| "When you're as far away as Darwin is it's really not noticeable for people," Jansons said. | "When you're as far away as Darwin is it's really not noticeable for people," Jansons said. |
| "There's no ash falling on the ground, there's no smell of sulphur as the ash is quite high up in the atmosphere. | "There's no ash falling on the ground, there's no smell of sulphur as the ash is quite high up in the atmosphere. |
| "So visibly it looks no different to the standard dry seasons we have here, which is a little bit of bushfire smoke and a bit of haze in the air." | "So visibly it looks no different to the standard dry seasons we have here, which is a little bit of bushfire smoke and a bit of haze in the air." |