Feb 19, 2019, 3:31 am
Last edit by: kaka
as long as one has an intention to fly and has a long(%) transit immd is not gonna take you to court for going for a shower and some food after getting off a flight that arrives at 5am (or whenever your flight is).
However, dont expect you can be taken care of quickly if you need to get out before 10am during the morning bank of flights.
No comments for other reasons for using the lounge and back out - do at your own risks.
(%)- assuming you spend min 2 hours in lounge (spare more time for getting out in the morning) after arrivals to shower, eat, and wait for staff to walk you out + returning 1 hours before flight + 1.5 hours for the 2-way airport express trip, you’re looking at killing 6 hours before you can do anything in town. YMMV.
However, dont expect you can be taken care of quickly if you need to get out before 10am during the morning bank of flights.
No comments for other reasons for using the lounge and back out - do at your own risks.
(%)- assuming you spend min 2 hours in lounge (spare more time for getting out in the morning) after arrivals to shower, eat, and wait for staff to walk you out + returning 1 hours before flight + 1.5 hours for the 2-way airport express trip, you’re looking at killing 6 hours before you can do anything in town. YMMV.
HKG: Exiting the airport after going to the lounge
Apr 5, 2019, 11:23 am
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if one really want to to dodgy things with a passport, you can always carry a 2nd or 3rd passport- i have yet to find a ground agent checking ones entry/exit record to the boarding pass. and many hkers exit with HKID but travel with a passport issued by another country, it is unlikely any checks are done behind the scene. forbidding backtracking hardly solve any of that problem.
I'm sorry if this sort of criminal activity is above your payscale (to use ashkale's phrase) but it's the sort of thing that I expect HK Airport regulations to do their best to counter. And if it upsets people who want to use departure lounges on arrival then that's just tough.
Apr 5, 2019, 11:27 am
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There is passport scan, face scan and boarding pass scan before being admitted to exit security.
Apr 5, 2019, 11:45 am
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That's not the issue. The issue is people checking in for a flight then passing a false passport and their boarding pass to someone who is in transit to enable them to board a plane to a country for which they don't have a visa so that they can claim asylum. The person then exits the departure area claiming a change of plans. The systems at the airport are not (yet) joined up enough to prevent this. Google for several reports in the SCMP and elsewhere of the people caught doing this. I guess that for each one caught there are many who are not.
I'm sorry if this sort of criminal activity is above your payscale (to use ashkale's phrase) but it's the sort of thing that I expect HK Airport regulations to do their best to counter. And if it upsets people who want to use departure lounges on arrival then that's just tough.
I'm sorry if this sort of criminal activity is above your payscale (to use ashkale's phrase) but it's the sort of thing that I expect HK Airport regulations to do their best to counter. And if it upsets people who want to use departure lounges on arrival then that's just tough.
i have a feeling they dont crosscheck with who entered airside at gatecheck- i might be wrong, they might have - all BP are scanned afterall.
Apr 5, 2019, 4:20 pm
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