Originally Posted by
xslash10x
Trying to work out the logistics on our return leg. We plan to "miss" our connecting flight from HKG to HAN and jump on a different flight with a different airline that same day. I guess this means I have to clear immigration at HKG, get to land side, check in for our new flights, clear security, etc. How much time should we give ourselves to get back to air side? I've never done this at HKG before. We'll be at the CX lounge after landing in HKG so need to know when to leave the lounge to catch our flight.
Do you have to go landside? You should be able to get a boarding pass reissued at the transfer desks without clearing immigration. This doesn't take more than a few minutes plus reclearing security to get back airside.
I'd have some concerns with your approach because if you are using the onward boarding pass to access the CX lounges I don't know if there's a way for the staff to know whether or not you're in the lounge. That is to say, if it gets to be final boarding I don't know if they'd be paging your name in the lounge or frantically running around looking for you. I've read comments in this thread that they prefer it if people tell the staff proactively that they're not flying the last segment for this fare.