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It’s nearly 20 years since Hong Kong’s Kai Tak Airport closed, but I still miss it. It was so compact you came out of customs, rolled down a ramp and were in a taxi within minutes. And it was ...
It’s been 25 years since Hong Kong’s Kai Tak airport closed. Pilot Russell Davie and photographer Daryl Chapman remember the glory days and share a few of the scariest moments.
THE FLOOR OF THE ARRIVALS LOUNGE AT THE FORMER KAI TAK AIRPORT displays a sign that reads “No Waiting,” but a dozen people still loiter. Not to greet passengers—the last one landed five ...
Speaking to CNN Traveller, he explained that Kai Tak "was the only major airport in the world that required a 45-degree turn below 500 feet to line up with the runway, literally flying between the ...
Replacing the unforgettable and slightly frightening Kai Tak Airport in 1998, Hong Kong’smain air hub has set the standard of what it means to be a modern, world-class travelfacility.
The site of Hong Kong’s legendary Kai Tak Airport has been reborn as the city’s largest sports and entertainment hub with a ...
Kai Tak closed as Hong Kong's airport in 1998, but in the two decades since, the seemingly choice development site has sat largely vacant even as much of the city has grown more dense from ...
A former airport in housing-hungry Hong Kong is becoming one of the city’s next big real estate developments. The city has made HK$173 billion in selling land from the old Kai Tak Airport to ...
HNA Group Co., the debt-laden Chinese conglomerate on a selling spree, agreed to dispose of its last plot of land near Hong Kong’s former Kai Tak airport, ending ambitions for a massive ...
First harbor-side waterslide In Hong Kong, a three-lane, 1,000-foot-long slide will be installed at the city’s infamous old Kai Tak Airport – now the Kai Tak Cruise Terminal – for three days.