SEPANG: Thousands of airline passengers bound for Sabah and Sarawak, including Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia, and Batik Air, are stranded at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) on Thursday due to the eruption of Mount Ruang in Indonesia.
A survey conducted by Bernama at 11am at Terminal 2 revealed that passengers originally scheduled to depart for Tawau at 8.20am have now been rescheduled to fly to Sandakan at 1.30pm.
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