{"id":85,"date":"2014-06-02T17:29:39","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T21:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/?p=85"},"modified":"2015-12-20T17:31:11","modified_gmt":"2015-12-20T22:31:11","slug":"monday-briefing-darwin-closed-ukraine-uncertainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/monday-briefing-darwin-closed-ukraine-uncertainty\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Briefing: Darwin closed, Ukraine Uncertainty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YPDN\/Darwin closure after Indonesia Eruption\u00a0<\/strong>02JUN Darwin Airport closed this weekend due to a large volcanic eruption form Sangean Volcano in Central Indonesia. The plume initially reached FL100 before drifting south. Some flights started operating again Monday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ukraine Uncertainty Continues\u00a0<\/strong>02JUN Following a further week of unrest in Ukraine, per Eurocontrol the following airports still remain closed: \u00a0UKCC\/Donetsk, UKFF\/Simferopol, UKFB\/Sevastopol,\u00a0UKCM\/Mariupol.<\/p>\n<p>HEAT\/Asyut, Egypt will be closed until at least May 2015 due to renovations.<\/p>\n<p>OIIE\/Tehran, Iran In remembrance of the 25th anniversary of the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini all air traffic in the Tehran province will cease from 0745 until 1200 local time (0315-0730 UTC) on 4 June 2014. The air traffic suspension will affect eight airports.<\/p>\n<p>HRYR\/ Kigali, Rwanda Rwy closed 0000-0430Z until 11Jun due repairs.<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia Sangean Volcano in central Indonesia erupted Friday 30MAY, initial plume to FL100, traffic in Brisbane, Melbourne FIR&#8217;s also affected. YPDN\/Darwin was closed for the weekend and slowly reopening Monday 02JUN. Local airports nearby also closed, 7000 evacuated.<\/p>\n<p>EGNS\/Isle of Man Red Arrows Display 03JUN at 1815Z, all movements at EGNS suspended during this time; delays expected.<\/p>\n<p>RCKH\/Kaohsiung, China The ATC folks are running a 2 hour tower evacuation drill during the afternoon of 12JUN. Delays are expected.<\/p>\n<p>Libya &#8211; Due to ongoing security issues HLLS\/Sebha remains closed until 10JUN, and HLLB\/Benina closed until 15JUN, earliest.<\/p>\n<p>TNCC\/Curcacao will be closed daily from 0300-1100Z 09JUN until 27JUN<\/p>\n<p>UKOV\/Odesa FIR A new VHF Volmet is in operation from 01JUN on 126.375, reports available for Odesa and Simferopol FIRs, and Odesa, Kyiv, Chisinau, Bucharest, Constanta, and Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p>VDPP\/Phnom Penh Flight checks &#8211; delays can be expected for arrivals and departures. JUN 03-08 0200-1000Z.<\/p>\n<p>DTTC\/Tunis Flight crews are warned that they may encounter laser beams or other bright lights in flight.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mexico<\/strong> Effective 25APR there are some significant changes to the Mexico Permit process. 1. No charter operations will be allowed to operate to Mexico as a private non-revenue flight &#8211; all flights are treated as charter. 2. Operators can apply for blanket permits to cover the fleet, but these take 3-4 months. 3. Single Trip Permits can be approved within 5 days. 4. These permits allow for the operator to fly to multiple destinations within Mexico, as long as no new passengers are acquired throughout the trip.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Greek Islands<\/strong> A Eurocontrol phone conference with Aircraft Operators was held on 28MAY to discuss the restrictions this coming summer. You can listen to a playback of the recording here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wallis and Futuna<\/strong> Customs and Immigration now require 48 hours PN at NLWW for all international flights.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Russia<\/strong> Not strictly aviation specific but effective 01JUN Russia has banned smoking in all restaurants, cafes, bars, and airports, trains, hotels, and ships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YPDN\/Darwin closure after Indonesia Eruption\u00a002JUN Darwin Airport closed this weekend due to a large volcanic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-briefings"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}