Passengers, restaurants struggle with water cutoff at Haneda terminal
07/11/2019 06:14
TOKYO, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Tokyo's Haneda airport was
grappling with a water supply cutoff at one of its terminals on
Thursday, with passengers washing their hands with bottled water
and some restaurants suspending operations, officials said.
A bar at Terminal 2, which handles domestic flights, was
serving wine in plastic cups because it could not wash its
glasses, footage on public broadcaster NHK showed.
Flight operations were not disrupted. But the water has been
shut off since Wednesday, with no timing for when the taps would
turn back on.
"We cannot estimate when the water supply will be restored"
at Terminal 2, said Kyosuke Hirano, a spokesman at Japan Airport
Terminal 9706.T , which runs Haneda, the world's fourth-busiest
airport.
Toilets, however, have not been affected because they use a
different water system, another Japan Airport official said.
Airport Facilities Co, which provides water to the airport,
said it suspended the water supply to domestic terminals 1 and 2
on Wednesday morning after a complaint of salty-tasting water.
The international terminal was not affected.
Airport Facilities said it restored water service to
Terminal 1 on Wednesday afternoon, but was still investigating
the cause of the salty taste.
Haneda Airport was the world's fourth-busiest airport by
passenger traffic in 2017, according to Airport Council
International.
(Reporting by Junko Fujita; Editing by Chris Gallagher and
Gerry Doyle)
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