JAKARTA, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) -- All flights from Indonesia to Bangkok has been
canceled on Wednesday due to the seizure of airport in Bangkok by
anti-government protesters, airliners said.
Hundreds of furious protesters from the People's Alliance for Democracy
seeking to topple Thailand's Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat have seized
Suvarnabhumi International Airport since Tuesday afternoon and forced the
airport to close in the evening, leading to cancellation of all flights.
All three airliners, including Garuda Indonesia, Thai Airways and Air Asia,
have canceled their schedules to Bangkok from Jakarta on Wednesday, officials of
the airliners said.
"Flight from Jakarta to Bangkok is aborted today," said Sendi Halim, an
official of Garuda Indonesia airline at the Indonesia's international airport of
Soekarno-Hatta, told Xinhua by phone.
The other two airliners had earlier Wednesday canceled their scheduled
flights to Bangkok, Citra Lestary, another official at the airport, told Xinhua.
Spokesman of the country's Foreign Ministry Teuku Faizasyah said that he
believed that the Indonesian people could understand about the situation in
Bangkok.
"We do not issue travel advise, and I think that the people know about the
uncomfortable situation in Bangkok," he told Xinhua.
Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat hold temporary offices at Don Muang after
thousands of alliance supporters surrounded parliament building last month.
Somchai is the brother-in-law of exiled former prime minister Thaksin
Shinawatra, who was toppled from power by a peaceful military coup in 2006. The
opposition considers Somchai as a puppet of Thaksin.