TAIPEI (Taiwan Information) — Hurricane Gaemi disrupted air site visitors throughout the Taiwan Strait for days after the storm handed, with many vacationers nonetheless awaiting flights on Taiwan’s outlying islands of Penghu and Kinmen.
The storm left greater than 10,000 folks in Penghu ready to return house following flight cancellations, reported CNA. Likewise, in Kinmen County, over 2,000 folks have been stranded on the airport after 32 flights have been canceled between Wednesday and Friday, reported UDN.
Over the weekend, the Taiwan Air Pressure supplemented industrial flights to assist vacationers at Penghu’s Magong Airport return to Taiwan’s foremost Island. The Air Pressure dispatched 19 C-130 transport plane over two days to assist 1,259 folks make it house.
On Sunday (July 28), a C-130 transport plane helped 70 remaining passengers fly from Magong to Kaohsiung, reported CNA. The remaining 300 vacationers in Magong have been all in a position to board industrial flights to return by Sunday afternoon, per CNA.
In Kinmen on Saturday (July 27), the departure corridor of Penghu Airport was full of hundreds of vacationers hoping to make it house after days of flight delays and cancellations. Though 14 industrial flights have been in a position to transport 1,178 folks again to Taiwan, almost 2,000 folks remained caught at Kinmen Airport in a single day.
One sad passenger, surnamed Yang (楊), was so upset that he threw a plastic stool at a member of UNI Air’s floor employees earlier than 9 p.m., reported UDN. The airline employees instantly filed a grievance with police who detained the unruly traveler.
The remaining vacationers stranded in Kinmen have been all in a position to board flights again to Taiwan’s foremost island by Sunday afternoon, per experiences.