{"id":58408,"date":"2020-01-13T14:31:41","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T06:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=58408"},"modified":"2020-01-13T14:51:54","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T06:51:54","slug":"airasia-mas-cancel-flights-to-manila-over-volcano-eruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=58408","title":{"rendered":"AirAsia, MAS cancel flights to Manila over volcano eruption"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 13 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; AirAsia and Malaysia Airlines today announced the cancellation of flights between Kuala Lumpur and Manila following the eruption of a volcano in the Philippines yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Taal Volcano south of Manila spewed ash and is expected to undergo an explosive eruption within hours to&nbsp;days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AirAsia, in a statement, said the airline&nbsp;is suspending and cancelling flights to and from the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) in Manila. The airport has&nbsp;temporarily suspended operations until further notice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAirAsia guests travelling over the next few days are strongly encouraged to check their flight status at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/airasia.com\/flightstatus\">airasia.com\/flightstatus<\/a>&nbsp;for the latest updates,\u201d it said in the statement. AirAsia said it has notified all affected guests via email and SMS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Malaysia Airlines, in a&nbsp;statement, said flights&nbsp;into NAIA&nbsp;will be suspended following the extended closure of the airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The affected flights from Kuala Lumpur to Manila today&nbsp;include&nbsp;MH806, MH704&nbsp;and MH804&nbsp;while those&nbsp; from Manila to Kuala Lumpur are MH805, MH705 and MH807.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tomorrow\u2019s flight,&nbsp;MH805&nbsp;from Manila to&nbsp;Kuala Lumpur, is also affected.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Malaysia Airlines said it is closely monitoring the situation and will adjust its flights when necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPassengers are advised to check their flight status on the Malaysia Airlines website or mobile app and they are&nbsp;also required to update their contact details at the \u2018Manage My Booking\u2019&nbsp;section on the website,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) temporarily suspended flights to and from the&nbsp;NAIA&nbsp;last&nbsp;night due to the presence of volcanic ash clouds on major traffic airways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thousands of people were evacuated from the area near the volcano, which sits in the middle of a lake about 70 km south of Manila, after it suddenly shot a column of ash and steam as high as 15 km into the sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) raised the alert level to four.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alert Level 4 means a hazardous explosive eruption is possible within hours to days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 13 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; AirAsia and Malaysia Airlines today announced the cancellation of flights between Kuala Lumpur and Manila following the eruption of a volcano in the Philippines yesterday. The Taal Volcano south of Manila spewed ash and is expected to undergo an explosive eruption within hours to&nbsp;days. AirAsia, in a statement, said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":22535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,300,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58408"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}