{"id":22349,"date":"2009-07-21T05:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T05:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/australians-still-travelling-to-bali-3\/"},"modified":"2009-07-21T05:52:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T05:52:00","slug":"australians-still-travelling-to-bali-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2009\/07\/australians-still-travelling-to-bali-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Australians still travelling to Bali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><\/span>Jetstar, Virgin Blue and Garuda airlines have told <i>The Age<\/i> newspaper that Australian government advice to reconsider travelling to Indonesia, including Bali, was not deterring passengers from visiting the tourist hot-spot. <\/p>\n<p>Australians are being warned by the Federal Government of a high risk of another terrorist attack in Indonesia following the bombings of the JW Marriott and Ritz Carlton hotels in Jakarta that killed nine people, including three Australians. <\/p>\n<p>Jetstar spokesman Simon Westaway said Australians tended to react calmly to international threats and passengers were not cancelling tickets. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Whether or not it is stopping someone from going in and booking a flight today, it&#39;s hard to tell,&quot; he said. <\/p>\n<p>He said passengers planning to travel to Jakarta had been offered the chance to defer their travel at no cost this week. <\/p>\n<p>Garuda Melbourne sales manager Ian Murton said the airline had one cancellation yesterday on a Bali flight and the passenger had told him it was due to illness. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;As of now we are monitoring the phones and we&#39;ve had no negative reaction but some people book through wholesalers and travel agents and we might not be able to tell for another 24 to 48 hours,&quot; he said. <\/p>\n<p>A Virgin Blue spokeswoman said the airline had not noticed any impact on its Bali bookings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jetstar, Virgin Blue and Garuda airlines have told The Age newspaper that Australian government advice to reconsider travelling to Indonesia, including Bali, was not deterring passengers from visiting the tourist hot-spot. Australians are being warned by the Federal Government of a high risk of another terrorist attack in Indonesia following the bombings of the JW [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}