Serious Sinkies Cut Off In Hokkaido! No Food No Room! Will RSAF Go Rescue Them From T

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Jerome Lim, 52, and his family have been stuck at the New Chitose Airport in Sapporo, Hokkaido, since Thursday (Dec 22), due to snow. No accommodation was provided, Mr Lim said, and shelves of Lawson convenience store at the airport were cleaned out.

HOKKAIDO - For the second time this December, Singaporean passengers are stranded in Hokkaido after heavy snow caused more than 100 flight delays and cancellations there.

Scoot flight TZ215, scheduled to fly at 5.25pm on Thursday (Dec 22), was cancelled due to heavy snow and may depart later on Saturday (Dec 24).

At least one Singaporean on Eva Airways' BR115, which was cancelled on Friday, was also affected.


Ms Angelina Hing and her family have spent two nights on the floor of New Chitose Airport in Sapporo since Thursday, she told The Straits Times.

The 46-year-old lawyer estimates that a few hundred people were stranded at the airport.

As the hotels near the airport were full, many people were sleeping on the floor of the airport. They had to queue for more than two hours just to get blankets, she said.

Scoot provided meal vouchers, but they were of limited use, she added.

They were "only applicable to a handful of eateries, and on Thursday night by the time we checked out all eateries had closed".

They have checked in and checked out three times since Thursday, she said.

On Friday, it took them more than three hours to check in, only to check out when flights were cancelled again.

She said that Scoot staff were polite but "displayed very little flexibility", and there was a "lack of communication" which added to their frustration.

But they were hopeful that they would be able to fly out soon as the weather appears to have cleared.

"With sunny skies today everyone is dying to get out of Chitose," she said.

Facebook user Eric Cheong told The Straits Times that Eva Airway's BR115 was scheduled to leave New Chitose Airport in Sapporo at 3.20pm on Friday (Dec 23). It was also cancelled due to heavy snow.

http://www.straitstimes.com/singapor...ay-due-to-snow


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