I am glad CX is preparing for this in advance. Summer of 2012 was hit by big disruption when we had that big typhoon, and CX were not prepared enough and it was chaos in HKG.

It is very likely that the airport will be functional during some parts of the CX suspended operation, but CX as a based carrier must make a decision so that it's very large majority of passengers do not turn up at the airport expecting to fly on cancelled flights and so that transit passengers are not accepted at outports and get stranded in HKG. It also means CX will be in a better place to recover once the storm passes, as it will have crew and aircraft in position both in HKG and outports.




Interestingly CX254/CX238 are cancelled from LHR tonight. They are scheduled to arrive at 17:15, before the operation is suspended, I guess CX presume landing may already be difficult at that time, or they want those aircraft/crews positioned in LHR to recover after the storm passes.