Originally Posted by QRC3288

I'm not optimistic.

And I don't recall the Pier being packed at all since revamp? Except at latenight hours, which is still a phenomen in F if a bunch of Europe flights depart nearby. Definitely not one of novelty.

I see it staying more like The Cabin: packed. The Cabin opened back about 8 years ago, and was pretty much packed until it closed last month, despite it being not one of the top lounged HKG. I think location has a big thing to do with that.

Unfortunately The Cabin and The Deck share a few more similarities. Both are relatively close to east side security, whereas Pier is out on the far end. And both Cabin and Deck are small....Deck is even smaller in a psf basis than Cabin. Plus shower rooms were added at Deck. I don't think any of these factors are going to help with crowding.

One might say as G16, the lounge was never very crowded. But it was still called the KA lounge by attendants and often confused as such by passengers, and was known as the obviously ugly ducking of the otherwise nice CX lounges in HK. Now that it's up to standard, smaller in size, has showers, AND the Cabin is permanently closed, I can't see why it will thin out much. It's very small. Pier J, on the contrary, is enormous. Simply enormous.