Airport Cancels Flight Check-Ins: Hong Kong Update
- Demonstrators stage fifth day of sit-ins at busy terminal
- Leader Carrie Lam warns city risks sliding toward ‘abyss’
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Hong Kong’s airport halted check-ins for remaining departures for a second straight day, as embattled local leader Carrie Lam warned that the city risked sliding into an “abyss.”
Hundreds of black-shirted protesters staged a sit-in at the departures hall at Hong Kong International Airport, preventing checked-in passengers from reaching their planes. Airlines including Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. had already cancelled hundreds more flights Tuesday, the day after the government decided to briefly shut the airport during a mass demonstration in the arrivals area.