Hi folks. I'm hoping those of you with broad travel experience in Indonesia might have some wisdom to share...
I am booked to fly SUB-SIN-MEL on a Saturday in May; VA award on SQ (J). Dep SUB 18:40.
I was planning to get to SUB (Surabaya) from ARD (Alor) as follows, sold on one ticket as a legal connection by LionAir. I'll be travelling with hand luggage only.
IW 1942 Wings Air >> JT 695 Lion Air
ARD 09:40 - KOE 10:20 >> KOE 11:05 - SUB 12:10
Assuming this goes smoothly, it all looks good. However, in recent weeks I've been able to see from (non-member, and patchy) data for these flights at flightradar24 that ARD-KOE sometimes arrives after the scheduled departure of the KOE-SUB flights, but that in most cases the second flight has departed late: 10-15 mins after the first flights' arrival. I can't tell if that means it waited for connecting passengers. And this timing isn't always true - I can see for 19 Feb that the first flight was 55mins late and the second flight left 9 mins early!
If the connection were to fail, the next flight KOE-SUB (JT 693) is 15:05 arr 16:10. IF I was rebooked onto that flight and IF it arrived reasonably on time (I believe travel from T1 to T2 could take 30+mins) , then all would be well... but, y'know...
It was suggested to me that the recent delays might in part be due to the wet season currently.
The Saturday of travel is during Ramadan this year (no idea if that has any effect on travel of this sort).
(I could leave ARD a day earlier, but this is an important holiday for me that I'd prefer not to curtail if possible.)
Any helpful thoughts? Would you rework the itinerary somehow if you were travelling?
I am booked to fly SUB-SIN-MEL on a Saturday in May; VA award on SQ (J). Dep SUB 18:40.
I was planning to get to SUB (Surabaya) from ARD (Alor) as follows, sold on one ticket as a legal connection by LionAir. I'll be travelling with hand luggage only.
IW 1942 Wings Air >> JT 695 Lion Air
ARD 09:40 - KOE 10:20 >> KOE 11:05 - SUB 12:10
Assuming this goes smoothly, it all looks good. However, in recent weeks I've been able to see from (non-member, and patchy) data for these flights at flightradar24 that ARD-KOE sometimes arrives after the scheduled departure of the KOE-SUB flights, but that in most cases the second flight has departed late: 10-15 mins after the first flights' arrival. I can't tell if that means it waited for connecting passengers. And this timing isn't always true - I can see for 19 Feb that the first flight was 55mins late and the second flight left 9 mins early!
If the connection were to fail, the next flight KOE-SUB (JT 693) is 15:05 arr 16:10. IF I was rebooked onto that flight and IF it arrived reasonably on time (I believe travel from T1 to T2 could take 30+mins) , then all would be well... but, y'know...
It was suggested to me that the recent delays might in part be due to the wet season currently.
The Saturday of travel is during Ramadan this year (no idea if that has any effect on travel of this sort).
(I could leave ARD a day earlier, but this is an important holiday for me that I'd prefer not to curtail if possible.)
Any helpful thoughts? Would you rework the itinerary somehow if you were travelling?