SUBSCRIBEHK: Chek Lap Kok
An engineering marvel, they flattened a small island and expanded it to have Hongkong’s premier international airport. Its a beautiful structure, huge and expansive and really impresses passengers especially like me who’ve only seen a few international airports. Bangkok’s former international airport, Don Muang, Singapore’s Changi or our very own NAIA just doesn’t compare. But the Centennial Terminal does make heads turn but on a smaller scale compared with Chek Lap Kok.
Arrivals and departures (left and right) greet passengers. From the plane, one has to walk or ride on these motorized walkways to get to the immigration counters while for the latter, after disembarking on the Airport Express MTR, this cavernous hall for checking in just fills the senses.
Baggage area for arriving passengers. You must listen to the flight attendant giving you instructions on where to get your checked in bags or else you’ll have to find it that might entail walking back and forth in this very wide hall.
Maybe to further illustrate its immensity, a rail coach ferries passengers from the arrival area to the immigration/baggage counters (left). Right, this hall leads to the taxi/bus stations.
Relive my posts on Hongkong:
Out of the country
Last night in HK
HK: I’m impressed
Back from HK
1st SEA Lepidoptera Conservation Symposium
HK: A beautiful city
HK: Transport
HK: Central
HK: People watching
Series 39: Hongkong
HK: Wong Kar Wai movies
Series 40: Hongkong International Airport
