{"id":94541,"date":"2026-10-21T02:35:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T18:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=94541"},"modified":"2026-10-21T02:35:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T18:35:02","slug":"indonesia-haze-disrupts-over-2600-flights-forces-14-cancellations-on-singapore-routes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=94541","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia haze disrupts over 2,600 flights, forces 14 cancellations on Singapore routes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">SINGAPORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/asia\/indonesia-haze-forest-fires-holds-malaysia-offer-help-6473751\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Haze from forest fires in Indonesia<\/a> has disrupted more than 2,600 domestic flights since August and forced the cancellation of 14 international services involving Singapore, Indonesia\u2019s Transportation Ministry said on Tuesday (Oct 20).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A total of 2,604 domestic flights were affected between Aug 11 and Oct 19, said the ministry&#8217;s director-general of air transportation, Lukman F Laisa.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Of these, more than half &#8211; or 1,420 flights &#8211; were cancelled or postponed, while another 1,129 were delayed.<\/p>\n<p><span>Twenty-three flights<\/span> were diverted to other airports, six returned to their departure airports and 26 <span>were rescheduled to leave earlier<\/span>, state news agency Antara reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The disruptions affected airports across Indonesia, including Palu\u2019s Mutiara SIS Al-Jufrie Airport in Central Sulawesi and Ternate\u2019s Sultan Babullah airport in North Maluku province.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Airports in West Kalimantan&#8217;s Pontianak, Riau&#8217;s Pekanbaru and <span>South Sumatra&#8217;s<\/span> Palembang were also affected.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/asia\/indonesia-haze-flights-cancelled-singapore-palembang-6475151\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: Haze from forest fires in Indonesia has disrupted more than 2,600 domestic flights since August and forced the cancellation of 14 international services involving&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/94542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}