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The closure of Japan's Kansai International Airport, flooded by a typhoon, is raising worries about the impact on tourist traffic, mostly from China and Southeast Asia, as well as on exporting computer chips and other goods. The airport officials on Wednesday said that they weren't sure when the airport will reopen.
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About 3,000 passengers stranded at the airport overnight were given blankets and biscuits until they gradually left by boats and buses. (AP/PTI)
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Stranded passengers queue up in lines to wait for special buses at Kansai International Airport following a powerful typhoon in Osaka on Wednesday. (AP)
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An aerial view shows a flooded runway at Kansai airport, which is built on a man-made island in a bay, after Typhoon Jebi hit the area, in Izumisano. (Reuters)
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Visitors are worried and some are rushing to change flights. Although a damaged runway had been mostly cleared, other equipment to ensure safe flying wasn't operating. (AP/PTI)
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The airport handles nearly $36 billion worth of imports, mostly medical goods, every year. (AP)
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Adding to the damage was a tanker on Tuesday that slammed into the side of a bridge connecting the airport, built on landfills, to the mainland, further crippling transport. No one was injured in the crash. (AP/PTI)
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A damaged 2,591-ton tanker is towed by a tugboat from a bridge connecting Kansai International Airport in Osaka on Wednesday, a day after the tanker slammed into the side of the bridge. (AP)
