Flying into Hong Kong was once an aerial adventure as gigantic passenger planes made alarmingly steep descents over the harbor and then low over crowded high rises to runway 13. Those adrenalin-filled ...

Photographer Birdy Chu Shun shot thousands of images of Hong Kong’s Kai Tak airport in 1998 before it closed in July that year and operations moved to the glitzy Hong Kong International Airport at ...

Flying into Hong Kong in the 1980s, Canadian photographer Greg Girard never tired of the thrill of arriving at Kai Tak Airport. Often described as one of the most dangerous approaches in the world, ...

The site of the old Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport – famous for its notoriously challenging runway in the middle of the busy city center – is set to welcome a new sky-high landmark. Prior to the ...

Editor’s Note: Monthly Ticket is a CNN Travel series that highlights some of the most fascinating topics in the travel world. In June, we’re looking to the skies as we spotlight the exciting world of ...

The viability of repurposing Hong Kong’s former airport at Kai Tak into the city’s second business district by the 2020s is likely to fade further into the distant future, as the construction of basic ...

Once the third busiest airport of the world, the Kai Tak International Airport was the international airport of Hong Kong from 1925 until Jul. 6, 1998 when it was replaced by the Chek Lap Kok. The ...

21:58, Thu, Feb 27, 2025 Updated: 21:58, Thu, Feb 27, 2025 Many people are scared of flying, yet it remains the safest mode of transportation. This is despite all the recent incidents. However, while ...

Hong Kong, you will surely be aware, is at the top of the news agenda in these bright days of mid-summer. The ongoing demonstrations against attempts by Beijing to impose a new law permitting the ...

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 so close ...