Originally Posted by
fairhsa
Hong Kong is next to China. (technically part of China). Our airspace is not really our own, and China does not give a [word that gets deleted] about commercial airlines. They do what they like. Thus HK airport regularly has limitations on where planes can fly which cause delays.
it's geography.
Yep, if you look at the flight routes from the east, often times, the flight will travel over taiwan and make a dog-legged pattern into hkg for arrival.