What do you do when you land and depart from HKG?
Feb 26, 2019, 11:50 am
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I've never been to CTS. but I can't imagine that intl-intl transit is even 0.01% of what it is at HKG. Separately, what would be the purpose of keeping transit passengers in the arrivals area of the airport, with essentially no services, until 3 hours prior to departure of their connecting flights? That makes no sense. To the extent a lounge has a crowding problem, they can address it individually with admission policies like the Amex lounge does. Plus, keeping people in the arrivals area would necessitate adding services for them - why not just expand in the departures area and have those services available to all?
Mar 1, 2019, 2:48 am
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I've never been to CTS. but I can't imagine that intl-intl transit is even 0.01% of what it is at HKG. Separately, what would be the purpose of keeping transit passengers in the arrivals area of the airport, with essentially no services, until 3 hours prior to departure of their connecting flights? That makes no sense. To the extent a lounge has a crowding problem, they can address it individually with admission policies like the Amex lounge does. Plus, keeping people in the arrivals area would necessitate adding services for them - why not just expand in the departures area and have those services available to all?
Mar 11, 2019, 9:11 pm
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If (any) lounge is empty and open, I don't see why the lounge dragon does not allow you to stay. If the lounge is full, with or without time limit, you will be refused entry.
Also - keep in mind, not all airlines at HKG has the check-in counters opened for the whole day. So your access time depends on when and how you can check in.