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By cvw1 from a Hong Kong discussion forum (http://www.discuss.com.hk/viewthread.php?tid=14403740&extra=page%3D1) :

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Aerosvit to launch Kyiv– Hong Kong service in W11

As per 23MAY11 GDS timetable and inventory display, Ukraine’s Aerosvit starting 30OCT11 launches its 3rd long-haul destination for Winter 2011 season, where it’ll begin 3 weekly Kyiv– Hong Kong service.

Boeing 767-300ER aircraft operates this service, becoming the First Eastern European carrier (excluding Russia) offering nonstop service to Hong Kong.

Schedule:

VV187 KBP2225 – 1515+1HKG 763 257
VV188 HKG0245 – 0805KBP 763 247 01NOV11-

http://airlineroute.net/2011/05/23/vv-hkg-w11/

http://www.hkairport2030.com/tc/index.html
http://vps.hongkongairport.com/mp2030/TR_24May_Eng_Full.pdf

Hong Kong International Airport 2030 Master Plan

Option 1:
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Option 2:
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That there's an updated Airport 2030 masterplan (3rd runway layout) I can agree with!*

*Still needs a rail link of extending West Rail across the water (there's a planned road link) to the Cross-boundary/Airport and on to Tung Chung.

Oh and has anyone noticed the "didn't make it" 3rd runway plans ("Runway Capacity" @ 5:34 ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipM2zBo8_zI#at=335)... Option A to Option S.

Option J: 3rd runway on south Lantau @ just off Lo Kei Wan! http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Lo+Kei+Wan&aq=&sll=22.215695,113.934231&sspn=0.043464,0.077162&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Lo+Kei+Wan&ll=22.20759,113.916464&spn=0.043467,0.077162&t=h&z=14

Option M: 3rd runway north of Tai O!! http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Tai+O&aq=&sll=22.20759,113.916464&sspn=0.043467,0.077162&g=Lo+Kei+Wan&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Tai+O,+Hong+Kong&ll=22.252798,113.851404&spn=0.043453,0.077162&t=h&z=14

What the hell were they thinking? I can sort of imagine airplanes travelling on a narrow jetway to make it from Chep Lap Kok to near Tai O... but south Lantau? WTF?

It sounds like the main limiting factor at the Hong Kong Airport is the number of runways, not the parking and terminal slots. Therefore I don't see why need advocate reclaiming a huge area of land for basically a duplicate of the current terminal, all for just one runway. Could be safety, that having a third way that close to an existing one is not safe? I'm sure the ATC could stagger flights so they don't get too close to each other. Reclaiming that much extra land and building huge additional terminals would be so much more than expensive than reclaiming just enough land for a third runway.

It sounds like the main limiting factor at the Hong Kong Airport is the number of runways, not the parking and terminal slots. Therefore I don't see why need advocate reclaiming a huge area of land for basically a duplicate of the current terminal, all for just one runway. Could be safety, that having a third way that close to an existing one is not safe? I'm sure the ATC could stagger flights so they don't get too close to each other. Reclaiming that much extra land and building huge additional terminals would be so much more than expensive than reclaiming just enough land for a third runway.

If you actually go through the videos (or the PDF masterplan), it appears the existing contaminated mud-beds are the most expensive to reclaim (using under-sea concrete mixing). It is also these areas that take the load bearing structures such as the actual runway and the passenger concourse.

They already haven't reclaimed what they were planning on the 2025 masterplan (there's a bay area to the south-west of the new runway). Second is the fact the "old" X-shaped passenger concourse will now be freighter aprons and where the new "dual-Y" passenger concourse sits was roughly where the proposed freighter aprons were meant to be. I guess they swapped it around as it made more sense once they've reconfigured (the currently very useless and bad to use) Terminal 2...

The best airport in the world and this airport deserved it...

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By clwong from HKADB :

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^^ Isnt' HKG a rather expensive for flight testing only??

^^ Isnt' HKG a rather expensive for flight testing only??

Not if you're route proving, then you'll need to fly to actual airports the said aircraft would likely fly to... Boeing even sent their B777-200LR back in the day some ~21,000km going from HKG to LHR _the long way round_, passing Taiwan, Japan, the Pacific, over North America, across the Atlantic then finally(!!) to London:

http://atwonline.com/aircraftenginescomponents/news/hong-kong-london-long-way-around-0309

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Thanks :cheers:

Why was the hill at the south end of the Chek Lap Kok island left undisturbed? It could have served as valuable land on a busy airport.

Why was the hill at the south end of the Chek Lap Kok island left undisturbed? It could have served as valuable land on a busy airport.

It was part of the original island before the airport reclamation, now preserved as a park.