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Old Oct 22, 2024 | 4:29 pm
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Originally Posted by drivingflyingwalking
Who cares, Hong Kong airport is dead. The third runway is the biggest white elephant in recent memory. How come London Heathrow can handle almost two times the traffic with only two runways and a curfew?
Even post-pandemic it's a top ten airport for number of seats per OAG - but, okay, "dead."

And further down the thread the evidence given is "they don't serve Gatwick" (yet serve LHR 5x a day) and "they don't serve FCO" - a holiday destination really that was not indicative of traffic coming to HK. Please. CX not serving your preferred destinations when it has opened new routes post-pandemic that had not existed for years is not the slam dunk against HKG coming back that you think it is.

There are a number of foreign airlines who have been waiting for the three runway system to come on line to serve the city or expand service. There is stuff like cargo operations (with HKG the world's number one cargo airport) going on that makes a comparison to airports where ops are more passenger oriented inapposite.
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