Gate renumbering at HKIA
Mar 15, 2019, 10:10 pm
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Oops I stand corrected but the approach that HKG used to use is highly similar to the same one that ICN uses, T1 gates are all below 100, the satellite is all 100-number gates and T2 are all 200-number gates. Using alphabet letters to denote exits or doors in Korea is something almost unheard of.
Mar 16, 2019, 12:00 am
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i personally do not see any necessity to use alphabet as prefixes except for being able to reuse numbers.
as long as you have <100 gates in 1 section, having prefixes as the hundreds digit works fine.
unless you start calling terminals/piers A B C...
as long as you have <100 gates in 1 section, having prefixes as the hundreds digit works fine.
unless you start calling terminals/piers A B C...
Mar 16, 2019, 12:33 am
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those flights cause backlogs on the runway (more seperation when sandwiched between widebodies), have low runway utilization (because it carries less pax) and goes to low value places.
should reject those flight or price then according to runway utilization.
then we dont need that so called terminal nor change gate numbers
Mar 16, 2019, 2:22 am
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And on a tangent of the ''bus terminal", the public buses in HK, including those from HKIA, have a plethora of letters in their route numbers.
Whilst there will be some who will struggle with letters the vast majority of the locals from the wider region will be ok with letters, although I agree that they would probably be happier to refer to letters as written rather than spoken as with varying dialects how letters are pronounced will vary and can get lost in translation.
Whilst there will be some who will struggle with letters the vast majority of the locals from the wider region will be ok with letters, although I agree that they would probably be happier to refer to letters as written rather than spoken as with varying dialects how letters are pronounced will vary and can get lost in translation.
Mar 16, 2019, 4:08 am
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I don’t think letters would get lost in translation in Hong Kong but I seriously do not think there is any value to add to using letters instead of using 3 digits.
it did feel a bit weird in the beginning, but it works now
it did feel a bit weird in the beginning, but it works now
Mar 17, 2019, 1:41 am
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Another possible reason not to use alphabetical prefixes to gates is that some pax may think or confuse is with their seat number, and mistake their seat as their gate number (I've seen this many times)
In addition, while most of local HK residents understand some degree of english, or at least know the alphabets, there are also a lot of transfer pax from other countries in the region, where english proficency is lower.
In addition, while most of local HK residents understand some degree of english, or at least know the alphabets, there are also a lot of transfer pax from other countries in the region, where english proficency is lower.
Mar 17, 2019, 2:02 am
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In addition, while most of local HK residents understand some degree of english, or at least know the alphabets, there are also a lot of transfer pax from other countries in the region, where english proficency is lower.
Mar 17, 2019, 7:20 am
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Better to have the "Bus Terminal" then using the 500s Buses, granted waiting for the SQ 388s to move off the taxiway at 3pm is annoying there.
At least we can still have priority boarding at the bus terminal vs. only having the privilege of being sardines on the bus first
Mar 17, 2019, 2:14 pm
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Mar 18, 2019, 9:55 pm
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