{"id":290101,"date":"2019-09-03T05:28:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T05:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=290101"},"modified":"2019-09-03T05:36:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T05:36:16","slug":"flights-cancelled-after-hk-protesters-target-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/flights-cancelled-after-hk-protesters-target-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Flights cancelled after HK protesters target airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than a dozen flights were cancelled Sunday as thousands of pro-democracy activists blocked routes to Hong Kong\u2019s airport, a day after protesters and police fought pitched battles in some of the worst violence seen in the city since unrest began three months ago.<\/p>\n<p>At least 16 flights were cancelled, the airport\u2019s website said, with the departure hall packed with a backlog of passengers who had struggled to make it to the terminals.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, operators of the Airport Express train suspended services after the station was besieged, while black-clad protesters \u2014 hiding from CCTV cameras under umbrellas \u2014 built barricades at the bus terminus and attempted to stop traffic on the main road leading to the facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a dozen flights were cancelled Sunday as thousands of pro-democracy activists blocked routes to Hong Kong\u2019s airport, a day after protesters and police fought pitched battles in some of the worst violence seen in the city since unrest began three months ago. At least 16 flights were cancelled, the airport\u2019s website said, with the departure hall packed with a backlog of passengers who had struggled to make it to the terminals. Earlier, operators of the Airport Express train suspended services after the station was besieged, while black-clad protesters \u2014 hiding from CCTV cameras under umbrellas \u2014 built barricades [&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":[212,130,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290101","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=290101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}