{"id":314618,"date":"2019-08-13T11:49:02","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T11:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=314618"},"modified":"2019-08-13T11:49:02","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T11:49:02","slug":"amid-protests-hong-kong-airport-suspends-all-check-ins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/amid-protests-hong-kong-airport-suspends-all-check-ins\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid protests, Hong Kong airport suspends all check-ins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-314620 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/HK-airport-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"692\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/HK-airport-1.jpg 692w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/HK-airport-1-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/HK-airport-1-324x160.jpg 324w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Authorities at Hong Kong airport on Tuesday suspended all check-ins\u00a0after pro-democracy protesters\u00a0blocked the facility.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A statement on the airport website said, \u201cTerminal operations at Hong Kong International Airport have been seriously disrupted, and all check-in processes have now been suspended.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cAll passengers are advised to leave the terminal buildings as soon as possible,\u201d it added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe Airport Authority of Hong Kong has advised that all check-in services for departing flights have been suspended. Passengers are advised not to proceed to the airport,\u201d Cathay Pacific\u00a0said in a tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Protesters had mainly occupied the arrival halls. But\u00a0some entered the departure area, forcing\u00a0authorities to take the unprecedented step of cancelling\u00a0of all arriving and departing flights.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities at Hong Kong airport on Tuesday suspended all check-ins\u00a0after pro-democracy protesters\u00a0blocked the facility. A statement on the airport website said, \u201cTerminal operations at Hong Kong International Airport have been seriously disrupted, and all check-in processes have now been suspended.\u201d \u201cAll passengers are advised to leave the terminal buildings as soon as possible,\u201d it added. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":314620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[11743],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314621,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314618\/revisions\/314621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/314620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}