Wedding joy hits an air pocket

In the same boat: Hazwan Mohd Hanafi (standing, second from right) together with 20 family members were heading to Tawau to attend a wedding. They, too, became stranded at KLIA2 when their 8.20am flight was cancelled yesterday. — Bernama

KOTA KINABALU: Rusnih Majid and an entourage of 16 members of her family were all packed and ready to leave to attend her nephew’s wedding in Kuching tomorrow.

But the buoyant atmosphere was dampened at the airport here when they found out that all flights had been cancelled because of the Mount Ruang volcanic eruption in Sulawesi.