Jayapura, West Papua to Darwin, Australia
Traveling around and to/from Indonesia is always a challenge and we spent a ton of time in airports. To get from Jayapura on the northern coast of West Papua to Darwin, Australia without going through Jakarta, the best I could come up with is:
Garuda has Jayapura-Bali at 9:25 getting in at 1:45
VirginAustralia Bali-Darwin 9:10 pm (14 hr flight thru Brisbane)
If anyone here enjoys a good flight puzzle and wants to help out with better flights (shorter layover, shorter flights) I would be SO GRATEFUL. These flights will be following a 21-day trip through West Papua, including long flights from the U.S. (DCA-ORD-NRT-SIN-Manado-Sorong plus 2 internal flights).
FYI the flight needs to be on Tues Sept 13. Most of the sites have Sept. grayed out so I used August just to check Tuesday schedules.