Originally Posted by
Guava
I am struggling to see what makes you think HKIA is this incredibly efficient. Maybe I am missing something terribly here but the distance between each gate at HKIA in my experience is at least twice or more of an average U.S. airport such that to walk even just the distance of 10 gates to get to where you need to be - it's going to take significantly longer in a straight line path no matter how you count the time.
You can be anywhere within the HKIA 10-15 minutes after entering security. It's the same in most of the new Asian/Middle Eastern airports. Try that in the average US airport.
Reading your posts I am left wondering how often you actually go to HKG???