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Indonesia Reopens Airports After Krakatau Ash

TL;DR

Reuters files Jakarta and four other airports reopening after Anak Krakatau ash clears. Reopened is not a canceled volcano. Print reopen.

MSM Perspective

Reuters files the Tuesday reopen. Al Jazeera files the same. Tuesday does not invent a Level I all-clear.

X Perspective

Feeds treat a reopen as already a quiet mountain.

Indonesia reopened Jakarta's main airport and others after Anak Krakatau ash cleared. [1] Reuters filed the Tuesday reopen. [1] Al Jazeera filed the same. [2] Reopened is not a canceled volcano. Print reopen. Do not print a quiet mountain.

Kitchens suspended on another page are a meal pause, not this ash. Leave a named all-clear to the edition that owns a named all-clear. Print reopen. Print not an all-clear.

Print reopen. Tuesday is not a quiet Krakatau. Ash clearing is still not Level I. Leave a named all-clear to the edition that owns one. Print reopen as the named Tuesday hold. Soekarno-Hatta resuming is still not a canceled volcano. Print reopen, not Level I. Four other airports in the Reuters file are still not a canceled mountain.

Reopened runways after ash are conditional: one plume shift closes them again. Five airports resumed on trial. Tuesday's reopening is provisional by nature.

Provisional by nature; plumes decide. Tuesday's trial runs. The mountain keeps its veto.

Kept vetoes keep runways conditional; Tuesday's mountain keeps its. Five airports run on trial. Plumes still decide.

Reopened runways after ash are conditional. Five airports resumed on trial. The mountain keeps its veto.

Soekarno-Hatta and four other airports resumed after ash cleared. Reuters and Al Jazeera filed a trial reopen, not Level I. One plume shift can still close those runways. A quiet Krakatau has not been declared.
The mountain keeps its veto. A trial reopen is not Level I. Ash can still close those runways.

The mountain keeps its veto. A trial reopen is not Level I. Ash can still close those runways.

-- KENJI NAKAMURA, Tokyo

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