Cross-border passengers came back to their departure platforms inside four minutes of the lights turning black.
Nobody was hurt anywhere and nothing about the process resembled a rejection. A gate that stops recognizing a destination returns whoever is inside it to where they started.
Eleven hundred people arrived back on foreign platforms holding tickets to a country that no longer existed for them. Four of those platforms filed courtesy notices and the rest filed nothing at all.
The cargo was a different matter and it stayed exactly where it was.
Diana's operators tracked the returns across four borders inside the first hour. Nobody on any of those platforms had been told anything before the lights changed.
One family had been crossing to a funeral in a member city that morning. Vasa logged the case with the other eleven hundred and did not single it out anywhere.
Freight in transit sits in clearing space, which is neither one country nor the other.
