{"id":287116,"date":"2019-08-13T06:06:43","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T06:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=287116"},"modified":"2019-08-13T06:06:43","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T06:06:43","slug":"stranded-squeezed-and-seething-as-hong-kong-airport-shuts-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/stranded-squeezed-and-seething-as-hong-kong-airport-shuts-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranded, squeezed and seething as Hong Kong airport shuts down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Edith Yeung landed at Hong Kong airport around 6 pm on Monday, her plane\u2019s crew announced that all connecting flights had been canceled, without saying why. <\/p>\n<p>That was Yeung\u2019s first inkling of the chaos that awaited thousands of passengers as Hong Kong\u2019s international airport, the busiest in Asia, imposed an unprecedented shutdown after protesters swarmed into the terminal. <\/p>\n<p>Yeung, a partner at the venture-capital firm Proof of Capital, waited in line with hundreds of others for an Airport Express train to the city center. The air-conditioning appeared not to be working, and at least one woman fainted in the heat and humidity of a Hong Kong summer, Yeung said. When all the passengers managed to squeeze on to the train, the doors wouldn\u2019t close properly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Edith Yeung landed at Hong Kong airport around 6 pm on Monday, her plane\u2019s crew announced that all connecting flights had been canceled, without saying why. That was Yeung\u2019s first inkling of the chaos that awaited thousands of passengers as Hong Kong\u2019s international airport, the busiest in Asia, imposed an unprecedented shutdown after protesters swarmed into the terminal. Yeung, a partner at the venture-capital firm Proof of Capital, waited in line with hundreds of others for an Airport Express train to the city center. The air-conditioning appeared not to be working, and at least one woman fainted in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}