Busy New Zealand airport bans excessively-long goodbye hugs

Please end your hug. You have 20 seconds to comply.

Photo: Dunedin Airport

You have three minutes to complete your hug. That's the new rule at Dunedin airport in New Zealand, and it was inaugurated to some controversy, reports The Guardian.

A sign erected in the airport's drop-off zone warns: "Max hug time 3 minutes. For fonder farewells please use the car park."

Dunedin Airport chief executive Dan De Bono …