Yea, our answers to these tight connection queries should come with the (obvious) caveat: if your inbound is delayed, your margin of error is slim to none!

You can have the best large transit airport in the world - which I think HKG is - but all of HKGs convenience is totally irrelevant if your theoretically simple (by HKG standards) 50 minute connection....... Is kicked off with a 45 minutes inbound flight delay!! No amount of brilliant transit designs can save that scenario!

So it goes without saying to any future posters who read this thread, that the airport itself is no problem, but HKGs strengths quickly become moot if you're delayed on the inbound sector of a short transit (duh). And the shorter the transit, the more you're leaving it up to chance simply due to an inbound delay.