Weather & Science
Severe Typhoon Skims Japan, Disrupting Flights And Trains
- ANA, JAL cancel flights, impact to continue through Saturday
- Disneyland curtails hours, some bullet train services halted
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Typhoon Ampil grazed Japan’s main island of Honshu on Friday, prompting cancellations of flights and trains in the middle of the country’s peak summer holiday season.
Japan Airlines Co. and All Nippon Airways Co. canceled some 90 international flights, impacting more than 15,000 passengers. The two carriers also scrapped about 560 domestic routes, disrupting roughly 104,000 travelers who were looking to fly to destinations such as Okinawa, Osaka and Fukuoka. Flights will continue to be impacted through Saturday, they added.