Stranded, squeezed and seething as Hong Kong airport shuts down

Others were left confused or scrambling for alternative arrangements as airlines canceled flights for the rest of the evening

When Edith Yeung landed at Hong Kong airport around 6 pm on Monday, her plane’s crew announced that all connecting flights had been canceled, without saying why.

That was Yeung’s first inkling of the chaos that awaited thousands of passengers as Hong Kong’s international airport, the busiest in Asia, imposed an unprecedented shutdown after protesters swarmed into the terminal.

Yeung, a partner at the venture-capital firm Proof of Capital, waited in line with hundreds of others for an Airport Express train to the city center. The air-conditioning appeared not to be working, and at least one woman fainted in the heat and