when does the wing open
 

what time does the wing open?
what time is the earliest that i can check in at hkg?

I believe it opens at 6am

And I think the earliest you can check-in (at the Airport Express station) is when it opens on the day before your flight.

However, one cannot check-in with luggage at any Airport Express station for flights to the USA (CX888, CX838, CX872, etc.).

any FT'ers there now? its 8:13 am in hkg?

I was in HKG a couple weeks ago and was told by the Wing personnal that it opens at 7AM.

I think the 7am was temporary when they dropped the first flights of the day due to SARS. I'm pretty sure it is open from at least 6-30am now.

Pier opened yet?

you can check in 48 hours in advance on the internet

the pier is still closed even though there are a lot of flights departing from gates out there and the wing gets very crowded at peak periods.

This was Aug. 18.

Staff told me the Wing was to officially open at 7 a.m. but the smoking lounge and the nearby small lounge both downstairs were open when I went there at 6:20 a.m.

The staff came over to the downstairs lounges at around 6:45 a.m. to announce the opening of the Wing.

6:30, 7:00. Doesn't really matter. My experience arriving from SFO sometimes earlier than schedule is that they'll let you in to use the lounge near the Smoking Bar until the rest of The Wing is ready.

the upstairs portion of the wing opens at 6:45, the downstairs part is open earlier

I arrived something like 5:45 a.m. the other day. Did I like waiting for the rest of the lounge to open so that I can use showers and cabanas? No.

If this had been with SQ and in SIN, I don't think I would have had to wait in another lounge that has only the basics just to wait for a full-fledged service lounge to open.

The Pier re-opened on 1 August 2003 and is now open daily from 7.30am to 11.30pm.

Considering only one flight is scheduled to arrive before 07:00 (at 06:30, from SFO), I don't think it is really reasonable to expect The Wing to open before that time. As things stand, CX are already being flexible enough to open the downstairs portion of the lounge to passengers who get in early, so I'm not sure what more one can in good faith expect.

an update: the wing now opens at 5:45am, now that there are several early morning departures and arrivals.