Thirty six flights were cancelled and 201 delayed on the weekend at one of Japan's busiest airports.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18888722

Thirty-six flights were cancelled and 201 delayed at a Japanese airport on the weekend after a pair of scissors went missing in a store near the boarding gates.

Security checks at Hokkaido’s New Chitose Airport domestic terminal were suspended for about two hours on Saturday morning, leaving hundreds of travellers temporarily stranded.

There were huge bottlenecks and queues as passengers in the departure lounge were forced to retake security checks.

Authorities tried to locate the missing scissors, which were found at the same store the following day.

  • @andrewth09English
    6•22 days ago

    Smells like some policies are getting changed

    • @thejoker954English
      9•22 days ago

      Yup, now all scissors will have a serial number engraved on them and need to be signed out and in in a secured central environment.

      • @mkwtEnglish
        6•22 days ago

        Prison rules. Tether them to the work station.

        • @thejoker954English
          2•22 days ago

          Honestly this would be a more effective method than the one they went with.