Originally Posted by ainternational

Well, thanks again to everyone, due to this thread and your advice, I've successfully made it upstairs to the international lounge.

Avoiding the transfer area to HKT, I walked up the escalator and confidently told the security clerk that I was going to the transfer desk. He nodded and all was good.

When I arrived at the lounge itself, they as usual demanded to see my outbound BP. I hesitated for a moment wondering if they'd banish me to the domestic terminal once they saw I was en route to HKT and had no business where I was, but they didn't blink an eye and waved me in.

All is good.