HKG — Kai Tak Airport, Hong Kong
For most of its life this was Kai Tak, in the middle of Kowloon, where arriving jets banked hard over the rooftops on a famously hair-raising approach. It moved to an artificial island at Chek Lap Kok in 1998 and kept the same code.
The airport
- City
- Hong Kong
- Country/region
- Hong Kong
- Runway
- 3,390 m
- Slots
- 270
- Open
- 1925 onwards
- International flights
- Accepted
- Playable in
- East Asia Open Skies
Its 3,390 m runway takes 181 of the game's 182 aircraft types — up to the Airbus A380-800.
About Hong Kong
Dense port city on the South China Sea, a British colony for most of the 20th century. Trade, finance and its role as the doorway to mainland China define it.
Population about 7,070,000 at the game's 2010 snapshot.
Hong Kong is a business market: its traffic comes from companies and connections rather than from holidays, which rewards frequency over seat count.