{"id":647767,"date":"2025-09-25T10:15:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T04:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=647767"},"modified":"2025-09-25T11:27:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T05:57:41","slug":"hong-kong-airport-halts-operations-for-36-hours-as-typhoon-ragasa-grounds-thousands-of-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/hong-kong-airport-halts-operations-for-36-hours-as-typhoon-ragasa-grounds-thousands-of-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong airport halts operations for 36 hours as Typhoon Ragasa grounds thousands of flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Typhoon Ragasa, the world\u2019s most powerful tropical cyclone this year, approached Hong Kong as it made a landfall in adjoining Taiwan. The storm brought the city\u2019s aviation hub to a standstill, Reuters reported. <\/p>\n<p>Typhoon Ragasa forces Hong Kong airport shutdown <\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong International Airport has imposed a 36-hour shutdown, the first time passenger flights have been halted for such a long stretch. All departures and landings have been cancelled starting Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Typhoon Ragasa, the world\u2019s most powerful tropical cyclone this year, approached Hong Kong as it made a landfall in adjoining Taiwan. The storm brought the city\u2019s aviation hub to a standstill, Reuters reported. Typhoon Ragasa forces Hong Kong airport shutdown Hong Kong International Airport has imposed a 36-hour shutdown, the first time passenger flights have been halted for such a long stretch. All departures and landings have been cancelled starting Tuesday evening.<\/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":[196,130,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647767","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=647767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}