CX 918 has finally taken off at 11:06pm and I presume it will land around1am. There were a few delayed international flights like CX 271 to Amsterdam and CX 255 to London, but I am not sure if CX will hold other flights for connecting passengers. I can just presume that CX will rebook passengers to the next flight. Filipinos can enter Hong Kong for 14 days without a visa, but since it is a weather delay, I am not sure if CX will provide free accommodations. Being in the middle of Golden Week, hotels might be very full now. Plus transportation options are not great after 1am. Taxi and some overnight local bus are the only choices now. If passengers have an early flight, it might be better to stay inside the airport. There are two food courts and both feature 24 hours outlets. There is definitely a McDonald and a Hong Kong style diner opened 24/7 at air side.

For non-locals, the weather in Hong Kong was really bad earlier this afternoon and things were very rough at the airport in afternoon hours with many diversions and circling. That is the reason for all the delays this late afternoon and evening. Yellow Rain Signals and thunderstorm warnings were hoisted for a long period of time this late afternoon and early evening. From an Uber driver this evening, he told me that things at the airport were pretty rough. He just finished a run to the airport, and things were rough.

Carfield