Popcorn for teenagers, protected havens for bankers as hurricane exits: Travel Weekly Asia

Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) has resumed operations after Typhoon Ragasa left Hong Kong and headed for southern China, the place almost two million folks had been evacuated in preparation for its arrival.

HKIA stated the airport’s key services had been largely unscathed through the storm.

Airport Authority Hong Kong is advising passengers to nonetheless examine with their airways for the newest flight info and permit ample time for travelling to the airport with seats and flight schedules confirmed.

During the storm, the airport’s Passenger Care Team gave out provides corresponding to bottled water, snacks and blankets to passengers in want.

They additionally supplied cotton sweet, popcorn and kids’s drawing kits to cater for the wants of households.

The storm had grounded flights for 36 hours at HKIA, whereas storm surges from Typhoon Ragasa shattered the glass doorways of the coastal-facing Fullerton Ocean Park Hotel.

However, surprising winners from the storm had been high-end Hong Kong accommodations, lots of them – together with the Mandarin Oriental – totally booked by bankers corresponding to Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and HSBC, who advised their staff to do business from home or take refuge from the hurricane in accommodations near the bankers’ workplaces.

Ragasa – which killed 17 in Taiwan – has been downgraded from a brilliant hurricane to a extreme hurricane and is predicted to weaken to a tropical despair because it strikes west in direction of Laos.