They should repaint the checkerboard for nostalgic reasons. My first landing at Kai Tak was in 1990 as a young DC8 Captain. Didn't know how much I miss those days till I started watching all those Kai Tak youtube videos.
The original paint (whatever is left) tells history, reminds you of long it's been sometimes. Maybe a community event can be created to help paint it?🤔
@@SkaterOrnez I'd bring a paint brush to help - but I'm disabled and live in the UK! It was a very different world the last time a plane flew into Kai Tak. Yours is a lovely idea, however.
Totally agree on the checkerboard repaint idea. I visited it in 2017, very faded. Also a shame that none of the airport has really been retained, only thing left is a piece of taxiway. There's an abandoned 747 at Chek Lap Kok, the local aviation enthusiasts would like to see it saved. I'm sure with dismantling and barging it would be put on display and painted in Cathay Pacific colours with a museum of Kai Tak memorabilia, and, cafe on board.
Kind of made me emotional. Seeing that old checkerboard pattern really hit me hard. That was such an icon for Kai Tak. I am happy they have that new park to remind us all of how Kai Tak served Hong Kong for decades.
Flew in to Kai Tak in the 80s. Still remember watching washing lines going past the window and discussing whether we were crashing or not. The absence of screams from the cockpit were reassuring.
I like Kai Tak Airport. I wasn’t born when it was still in operation but I’ve seen videos of plane spotting of Kai Tak. Very emotional just to see 747s making an iconic wide turn and landing into Kai Tak.
I visited Hong Kong during July 1996 initially on a Cathay Pacific 747 on the checkerboard approach, it was breathtaking on the approach, then went to China returning a few weeks later on a Dragon Air (can’t remember the aircraft type) during a strong storm. It was quite a scary approach and the passengers were silent. After a few more days in Kowloon I left Kai Tak on another 747. Very fond memories and I hope to return one day. Thanks for sharing your videos. Great post.
Excellent production! Glad to see that there are still some remnants of Kai Tak kicking around such as the checkboard hill and paved sections of the Runway. I still take off and land at Kai Tak in FSX. I love the challenge.
Just think what’s gone... Kai Tak Airport Pan Am TWA Braniff Northwest Orient Flying Tigers Canadian Airlines Swissair Mandarin Airlines Air Siam CAT British Caledonian Ansett Concorde All of these were part of the Hong Kong aviation scene at one time or another.
We can't forget Cathay's Old Green Tail "Lettuce Sandwich" Livery (even though Cathay Pacific is still around)...That Green Tail was the most integral part ofthe Kai Tak Airport Scene.
Amazing how the checkerboard paint has weathered 20 years of sun, rain and typhoons. Kowloon Tong, a very prestigious residential area northwest of Kowloon City, will likely not sprout skyscrapers in a long time, but Kowloon City (the area immediately next to Kai Tak) and the rest of Kowloon will definitely continue to redevelop taller and taller.
Thankyou so very much for this video. I lived in H.K in the 1990s and remember Kai Tak so very well. I loved it so much I used to take the bus there to watch the planes. It was such sad time for many people when it closed. I appreciate you taking the time to show us what it now looks like. It is unrecognizable now.
Such a shame the old terminal was short sightedly demolished and not retained as a heritage structure with ships inside so it wasn't doing nothing. I flew in and out of Kai Tak as a kid in 1977, and revisited in 2001, gladly taking video on parts of the runway, apron and terminal buildings.
Thanks for the video. Really puts into perspective on why history matters and this is a great retrospective as it is one of the most iconic airports known to mankind! Thanks again!
Thank you for the video. A trip down memory lane for me having worked in both KT and CLK Control Towers from 1997 to 2000. It was an exciting place to work.
Great video. I lived in HK back in the fall of 1998 and so I wasn't fortunate enough to fly in or out of Kai Tak. However, having the opportunity to fly in and out of Chek Lap Kok in its first year was spectacular. Will never forget it.
Great, any memories of the new airport that year? I also missed an opportunity of flying into Kai Tak when I visited HK in December of 1998. Never forget indeed. Thanks mate!
The first time I experienced Kai Tak was as a child of around 4 years old. My family flew in on a Cathay Pacific flight on which my cousin was one of the flight attendants. Though I don’t remember the details all that clearly, I do remember the sense of nostalgia and wonder I had upon experiencing this airport and arrival. Cut to almost 25 years later when I visited Hong Kong on a solo trip, I came to the Kai tak site and took a stroll through the area. It was all so serene, beautiful and you could still somehow feel the energy in that place in that it was where some incredible events were experienced. To all those visiting Hong Kong, it is a place that shouldn’t be missed. It’s just an ordinary walk through the park that was built there, but it’s an incredible experience all the same
Great video! 👌🏽 I was a teen in the 90s and never got the opportunity to visit Kai Tak or the walled city. Finally visited Hong Kong in 2013 & 2016. Love the place!
I'm glad that I managed to visit HK in Nov 2020, as I'm a HK PR. Part of the original runway (~300m) and markings from runway 31 touchdown zone remain next to the cruise terminal, which is gated. When I was there, the plot of land that also included taxiway A11 and A12 was used to test taxi drivers for the virus, and the gate was open. Right place right time. Apparently, they kept that plot due to oil contamination. While the North Apron has already been decontaminated and residential buildings already completed, the south is not. Oh, and in addition, the cruise terminal is still very empty. Shutters down and lights off. Fortunately, you still can go inside
I used to study at a school near the old Kai Tak airport and always hated the rumbling noise from those large jets when they flew over. I was quite happy when the new airport was opened - it was newer, larger & modern. Looking back, Kai Tak is certainly a beautiful memory, especially when we replay footages of those big jets doing the checkboard approach - sometimes in crosswind conditions! I was probably too young to remember taking off and landing at the old Kai Tak airport - probably too young to even look out of the window to see how the checkerboard approach was like from a window seat.
Thank you for this nostalgic trip. I was last flew in to HK CLK for a couple of days in late-2019, I did however prior to that sail out of the new Kai Tak cruise terminal, very nice but an exhausting walk to get to the ship, getting to aircraft at the Kai Tak airport was far simpler! Thank you Mr Kai and Mr Tak!
My father was the person in charge of the governments public works dept that had the job of keeping the squatters structures on the buildings rooftops on the approaches to kai tak from being in the way of aircraft operations in the 70s when we lived there . Huge problems with the crowds and squatter owners as workers pulled them down with truck loads of police everywhere and litteraly thousands of displaced cockroaches running every which way .
Kai Tak is not coming back, so I imagine the additional open space for Hong Kong will be very good for building additional housing and extra parks. I never got to land at Kai Tak. The first time I ever landed at Hong Kong was 2001 (so obviously, Kai Tak had been out of use for years by then). But it’s such an amazing thing to think that it was a major airport and famous for its approaches, not just among the pilot community but the general public. Glad that people living under the flight path no longer have to suffer aircraft noise though. The Checkerboard should be repainted and maintained for local landmark and nostalgic reasons. It’s cool.
A shame that none of the airport has really been retained, only thing left is a piece of taxiway. There's an abandoned 747 at Chek Lap Kok, the local aviation enthusiasts would like to see it saved. I'm sure with dismantling and barging it would be put on display and painted in Cathay Pacific colours with a museum of Kai Tak memorabilia, and, cafe on board. The famous checker board should be a listed heritage icon and repainted.
Glad to have been almost a part of history. Flew from Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah airport in Malaysia into Kai tak in 1997 just weeks after the handover. For a short holiday. Then flew out as one of the last flights, and landed at Kuala Lumpur international Airport that opened when I was in Hong Kong. First landing there too from China Airlines. I think the pilots were unfamiliar with the airport so we spent a good time circling.
I was not born since kai tak’s closure, but it's sad to lose the legendary airport with dangerous landing, pilots who land had a core memory, and of course hong kong's first ever airport
This What Happened to Kai Tak Airport in Hong Kong Will Also Happen in NAIA in Pasay and Paranaque of Metro Manila if NMIA is Completed and NAIA is Closed, After 20 Years Since NAIA is Closed, It Will be Now Full of Skyscrapers, Former Runway will be a Park for the CBD, Former Control Tower will be a Tourist Site, NAIA Terminals will be a Museum and NAIA Taxiways will be a Road.
i m glad i still have the pics of the airport. leaving for Toronto Canada 1990. most older boomer was looking forward New Airport Noise Pollution. 7am - 11pm every 5 -10 mins a landing. Depart towards the water.
That is very interesting to see, I had no idea they were opening a cruise ship terminal at the old Kai Tak site. And the park and dim sum look great as well. Must have been a really cool place to check out!
Thanks mate. Yea, usually when the ships aren't around, it's only the dim sum place that is occupied. Unfortunately, the terminal is only accessible by a few bus routes. It seems most visitors, who are more well off, get there by car. Hopefully, after everything else gets built, it'll be more accessible.
That's a very interesting video, good job on the narrative text. I always enjoyed watching videos about Kai Tak, not sure why though because i was only 2 years old when it closed. It's just an interesting piece of histroy.
Thanks mate. Yea, lots of us, including me, were too young to recall when Kai Tak was around. But the legends were kept alive through its history and, of course, Flight Sim :)
Many thanks for giving us awesome online trip =) But you missed the apron area after Kai Tak gone.😂 Let me give more information here to those who interested. Now the land become residential area with high-rise luxurious appartments and public housing such as Kai Ching Estate and Tak Long Estate. The remaining land such as the removed airport passenger terminal is still under development. Some areas are assigned for commercial buildings and government offices. A big project called Kai Tak Sports Park is now in progress. It located between the runway and the former passenger terminal. Upon completion, there will be a main stadium, an indoor sports centre and some public sports ground. MTR Kai Tak station, which opened in February 2020, lies at the northwest corner of Kai Tak land(approximately the former passenger terminal location). Tuen Ma Line trains stop at this station.
SUPA_HOT_ICE. Because Northwest Airlines was big in Asia, especially Hong Kong. I remember many of times taking Northwest into Kai Tak and couldn't wait to get off the plane and go into Kowloon city for some amazing wakai dishes, and back then being a British Territory life was much better than today. People in Hong Kong are suffering the communist government. It's sad.
I think regular people is actually happy to not hear the roar of 747s above their head anymore. Living close to the airport is not the most pleasant thing.
thanks to Microsoft flight simulator 2004-X you can like me practising again and again the famous approach kaitak runway 13 and 31 virtually in 747 and still today in 2020 I used to fly and overfly and landed on KAI TAK CHEP LAP KOK and MACAO airports discovering the ENTIRE HONG KONG and SCHENZEN CITIES AREAS of course my flight simulator 2004 is alive since i add so many intelligence artificial aircrafts in kaitak and chep lap kok in same time you can feel my nostalgia when I PLAY with it ALL the Airlines companies are present in my game and the checkerboard hill approach runway 13 is operational that so GREAT
Interesting place is Kai Tak, sucks that its empty and not many bus routes go there. Speaking of Buses/Coaches, can anyone identify the Sun Bus coach seen at 1:19? Many thanks if you can!
Any of you are flight sim fans or interested to learn more here's a tutorial from AllFlightSim on how to fly into Kai Tak's famous IGS approAC INTO RW13 : ua-cam.com/video/Gi9svs-X3rA/v-deo.html
Ryan8or PH The passengers used to complain how boring the old one was, especially the approach onto the main runway. So they built a newer, larger one with more shops to keep passengers happy.
Is so sad to see the Hongkong's governor wasting the most valueable land in hongkong for so long and does not kown what to do with it, how about taking Dubai as reference. I think they are not as creative as Singapore or Dubai even the main land China. In the past 10 years, Hongkong city development is way too slow. What a shame really or maybe they think Hongkong is at the top of the world so no much to do anymore.
Think about it. Hong Kongers never wanted a return to China. But China had to take it back. But now they are concentrating on Shanghai and Beijing because they were always Chinese and it saves face to concentrate on them. For China, why plough money into a place and a people who are still rebelling? HK was always going to lose out. Britain didn't want a conflict, they knew they had to give it back.
It is because they have been brain washing by the education system the Britain left behind. Taiwan in the same boat. So Half of the citizen maybe more have been affected. If you own a house and rent to someone for so long and the parent told thier children that this house is belong to them or sort of, you can imagine what will happen in the future.
They should repaint the checkerboard for nostalgic reasons. My first landing at Kai Tak was in 1990 as a young DC8 Captain. Didn't know how much I miss those days till I started watching all those Kai Tak youtube videos.
I was just thinking that as I watched the video.
Yes, that would an appropriate gesture to its past.
The original paint (whatever is left) tells history, reminds you of long it's been sometimes. Maybe a community event can be created to help paint it?🤔
@@SkaterOrnez I'd bring a paint brush to help - but I'm disabled and live in the UK! It was a very different world the last time a plane flew into Kai Tak. Yours is a lovely idea, however.
Totally agree on the checkerboard repaint idea. I visited it in 2017, very faded. Also a shame that none of the airport has really been retained, only thing left is a piece of taxiway. There's an abandoned 747 at Chek Lap Kok, the local aviation enthusiasts would like to see it saved. I'm sure with dismantling and barging it would be put on display and painted in Cathay Pacific colours with a museum of Kai Tak memorabilia, and, cafe on board.
Kind of made me emotional. Seeing that old checkerboard pattern really hit me hard. That was such an icon for Kai Tak. I am happy they have that new park to remind us all of how Kai Tak served Hong Kong for decades.
We all miss Kai Tak, but more than the thrilling approach for us HKers it's really our childhoods and a bygone era that its closure symbolised.
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Flew in to Kai Tak in the 80s. Still remember watching washing lines going past the window and discussing whether we were crashing or not. The absence of screams from the cockpit were reassuring.
I think back to the 80’s when I was flying a corporate BAC 1-11 and I flew into Kai Tak several times. As I’m now retired, I miss those days dearly.
I like Kai Tak Airport. I wasn’t born when it was still in operation but I’ve seen videos of plane spotting of Kai Tak. Very emotional just to see 747s making an iconic wide turn and landing into Kai Tak.
I visited Hong Kong during July 1996 initially on a Cathay Pacific 747 on the checkerboard approach, it was breathtaking on the approach, then went to China returning a few weeks later on a Dragon Air (can’t remember the aircraft type) during a strong storm. It was quite a scary approach and the passengers were silent. After a few more days in Kowloon I left Kai Tak on another 747. Very fond memories and I hope to return one day. Thanks for sharing your videos. Great post.
Excellent production! Glad to see that there are still some remnants of Kai Tak kicking around such as the checkboard hill and paved sections of the Runway. I still take off and land at Kai Tak in FSX. I love the challenge.
Just think what’s gone...
Kai Tak Airport
Pan Am
TWA
Braniff
Northwest Orient
Flying Tigers
Canadian Airlines
Swissair
Mandarin Airlines
Air Siam
CAT
British Caledonian
Ansett
Concorde
All of these were part of the Hong Kong aviation scene at one time or another.
@@keithnatanael2011 , it's technically a different entity, which took over some assets of Swissair, but I get what you're saying. Cheers!
and Dragon air
We can't forget Cathay's Old Green Tail "Lettuce Sandwich" Livery (even though Cathay Pacific is still around)...That Green Tail was the most integral part ofthe Kai Tak Airport Scene.
Rip all legendary Airlines 😢😢😢.
Amazing mate! I miss kai tak but that is how life goes! Great information and history! Liked!
Thanks mate! Yes indeed, it'll exist within our hearts :)
Amazing how the checkerboard paint has weathered 20 years of sun, rain and typhoons. Kowloon Tong, a very prestigious residential area northwest of Kowloon City, will likely not sprout skyscrapers in a long time, but Kowloon City (the area immediately next to Kai Tak) and the rest of Kowloon will definitely continue to redevelop taller and taller.
the tragedy of time but the incredible indelible memories remain, more precious than ever !!!
Thankyou so very much for this video. I lived in H.K in the 1990s and remember Kai Tak so very well. I loved it so much I used to take the bus there to watch the planes. It was such sad time for many people when it closed.
I appreciate you taking the time to show us what it now looks like.
It is unrecognizable now.
Such a shame the old terminal was short sightedly demolished and not retained as a heritage structure with ships inside so it wasn't doing nothing. I flew in and out of Kai Tak as a kid in 1977, and revisited in 2001, gladly taking video on parts of the runway, apron and terminal buildings.
Sorry, we need the land so we have space to live :/
Thanks for the video. Really puts into perspective on why history matters and this is a great retrospective as it is one of the most iconic airports known to mankind!
Thanks again!
Thank you for the video. A trip down memory lane for me having worked in both KT and CLK Control Towers from 1997 to 2000. It was an exciting place to work.
Great video. I lived in HK back in the fall of 1998 and so I wasn't fortunate enough to fly in or out of Kai Tak. However, having the opportunity to fly in and out of Chek Lap Kok in its first year was spectacular. Will never forget it.
Great, any memories of the new airport that year? I also missed an opportunity of flying into Kai Tak when I visited HK in December of 1998. Never forget indeed. Thanks mate!
The first time I experienced Kai Tak was as a child of around 4 years old. My family flew in on a Cathay Pacific flight on which my cousin was one of the flight attendants. Though I don’t remember the details all that clearly, I do remember the sense of nostalgia and wonder I had upon experiencing this airport and arrival.
Cut to almost 25 years later when I visited Hong Kong on a solo trip, I came to the Kai tak site and took a stroll through the area. It was all so serene, beautiful and you could still somehow feel the energy in that place in that it was where some incredible events were experienced. To all those visiting Hong Kong, it is a place that shouldn’t be missed. It’s just an ordinary walk through the park that was built there, but it’s an incredible experience all the same
Great video! 👌🏽 I was a teen in the 90s and never got the opportunity to visit Kai Tak or the walled city. Finally visited Hong Kong in 2013 & 2016. Love the place!
I was wondering about this place about passing a few days in HK since I am an Aviation enthusiast and.. your video was perfect ! Thanks
WOW, I knew Kai Tak in the '70's when I was stationed there with the Royal Artillery and spent many hours in the control tower doing gun control
Kai Tak ATC or Sek King ATC? I suspect you mean the latter!
1:39 Fun fact, most road signs in HK are designed and printed by prisoners as part of their job
somehow seeing your video, it's like being in time machine and look a way back to the past
I'm glad that I managed to visit HK in Nov 2020, as I'm a HK PR.
Part of the original runway (~300m) and markings from runway 31 touchdown zone remain next to the cruise terminal, which is gated. When I was there, the plot of land that also included taxiway A11 and A12 was used to test taxi drivers for the virus, and the gate was open. Right place right time.
Apparently, they kept that plot due to oil contamination. While the North Apron has already been decontaminated and residential buildings already completed, the south is not.
Oh, and in addition, the cruise terminal is still very empty. Shutters down and lights off. Fortunately, you still can go inside
I used to study at a school near the old Kai Tak airport and always hated the rumbling noise from those large jets when they flew over. I was quite happy when the new airport was opened - it was newer, larger & modern. Looking back, Kai Tak is certainly a beautiful memory, especially when we replay footages of those big jets doing the checkboard approach - sometimes in crosswind conditions! I was probably too young to remember taking off and landing at the old Kai Tak airport - probably too young to even look out of the window to see how the checkerboard approach was like from a window seat.
A beautiful and magical time, HK and Kai Tak, a thousand years ago and a million miles away.
Thank you for this nostalgic trip. I was last flew in to HK CLK for a couple of days in late-2019, I did however prior to that sail out of the new Kai Tak cruise terminal, very nice but an exhausting walk to get to the ship, getting to aircraft at the Kai Tak airport was far simpler! Thank you Mr Kai and Mr Tak!
My father was the person in charge of the governments public works dept that had the job of keeping the squatters structures on the buildings rooftops on the approaches to kai tak from being in the way of aircraft operations in the 70s
when we lived there . Huge problems with the crowds and squatter owners as workers pulled them down with truck loads of police everywhere and litteraly thousands of displaced cockroaches running every which way .
great video. all the sweet memory around kai tak. gone is kai tak airport. gone are those glory days of hong kong. gone soon will be hong kongers.
Thanks for making this wonderful video!
Kai Tak is not coming back, so I imagine the additional open space for Hong Kong will be very good for building additional housing and extra parks.
I never got to land at Kai Tak. The first time I ever landed at Hong Kong was 2001 (so obviously, Kai Tak had been out of use for years by then). But it’s such an amazing thing to think that it was a major airport and famous for its approaches, not just among the pilot community but the general public.
Glad that people living under the flight path no longer have to suffer aircraft noise though.
The Checkerboard should be repainted and maintained for local landmark and nostalgic reasons. It’s cool.
fantastic well put together video mate!
A shame that none of the airport has really been retained, only thing left is a piece of taxiway. There's an abandoned 747 at Chek Lap Kok, the local aviation enthusiasts would like to see it saved. I'm sure with dismantling and barging it would be put on display and painted in Cathay Pacific colours with a museum of Kai Tak memorabilia, and, cafe on board. The famous checker board should be a listed heritage icon and repainted.
Though ive never flown into kai tak, i have several photos, dvds, and memorabilia from kai tak. When i saw the checkerboard my heart started pounding
I remember landing there in 1997, it was so exciting on board a KLM 747-300 from Amsterdam Schipol.
I never knew Kai Tak have Airport from the past. I was born in 2004. In present, Kai Tak has MTR Station with Tuen Ma Line.
Glad to have been almost a part of history. Flew from Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah airport in Malaysia into Kai tak in 1997 just weeks after the handover. For a short holiday. Then flew out as one of the last flights, and landed at Kuala Lumpur international Airport that opened when I was in Hong Kong. First landing there too from China Airlines. I think the pilots were unfamiliar with the airport so we spent a good time circling.
Very interesting! Thank for this short documentary about Kai Tak!
Thanks mate! One day I hope to make a more detailed one.
i went to the cruise terminal 3 times and the airport, 5. all the times have me really happy memories that will last forever
This made me cry
Very nice video, with some great shots of Hong Kong! I was there in february, amazing place! :) Nice work! Liked.
Awesome, did you happen to visit Kai Tak? Thanks mate!
I was not born since kai tak’s closure, but it's sad to lose the legendary airport with dangerous landing, pilots who land had a core memory, and of course hong kong's first ever airport
basically what Mr Ho Kai and Au Tak envisioned, a land for development
This What Happened to Kai Tak Airport in Hong Kong Will Also Happen in NAIA in Pasay and Paranaque of Metro Manila if NMIA is Completed and NAIA is Closed, After 20 Years Since NAIA is Closed, It Will be Now Full of Skyscrapers, Former Runway will be a Park for the CBD, Former Control Tower will be a Tourist Site, NAIA Terminals will be a Museum and NAIA Taxiways will be a Road.
i m glad i still have the pics of the airport. leaving for Toronto Canada 1990. most older boomer was looking forward New Airport Noise Pollution. 7am - 11pm every 5 -10 mins a landing. Depart towards the water.
Really cool video! Thanks for sharing! Liked!
Thanks mate!
That is very interesting to see, I had no idea they were opening a cruise ship terminal at the old Kai Tak site. And the park and dim sum look great as well. Must have been a really cool place to check out!
Thanks mate. Yea, usually when the ships aren't around, it's only the dim sum place that is occupied. Unfortunately, the terminal is only accessible by a few bus routes. It seems most visitors, who are more well off, get there by car. Hopefully, after everything else gets built, it'll be more accessible.
That's a very interesting video, good job on the narrative text. I always enjoyed watching videos about Kai Tak, not sure why though because i was only 2 years old when it closed. It's just an interesting piece of histroy.
Thanks mate. Yea, lots of us, including me, were too young to recall when Kai Tak was around. But the legends were kept alive through its history and, of course, Flight Sim :)
A sight worthy of Ghost in the Shell or Blade Runner. Beauty.
Thanks for share
Me:this video
Dad: Why you're crying so damn loud?
Many thanks for giving us awesome online trip =) But you missed the apron area after Kai Tak gone.😂 Let me give more information here to those who interested. Now the land become residential area with high-rise luxurious appartments and public housing such as Kai Ching Estate and Tak Long Estate. The remaining land such as the removed airport passenger terminal is still under development. Some areas are assigned for commercial buildings and government offices. A big project called Kai Tak Sports Park is now in progress. It located between the runway and the former passenger terminal. Upon completion, there will be a main stadium, an indoor sports centre and some public sports ground. MTR Kai Tak station, which opened in February 2020, lies at the northwest corner of Kai Tak land(approximately the former passenger terminal location). Tuen Ma Line trains stop at this station.
Hong Kong is one of the world's greatest cities I love the place, however the new airport is a far superior experience.
Probably the most mythic international airport in the world. Thanks for this recall.
Gone is a great airport, but not gone from our memories and hearts...
This is so interesting. It reminds me of Northwest Airlines for some reason.
SUPA_HOT_ICE. Because Northwest Airlines was big in Asia, especially Hong Kong. I remember many of times taking Northwest into Kai Tak and couldn't wait to get off the plane and go into Kowloon city for some amazing wakai dishes, and back then being a British Territory life was much better than today. People in Hong Kong are suffering the communist government. It's sad.
kai tak would turn out to be one of the most exorbitant housing area since a small piece of land was sold for more than 10 billion HKD in these years.
I just heard on the news they Station Square and Avenue Park was opened to the public today?
iconic checkerboard for IGS approach
They need to repaint the checkerboard thing on the hill!!
Tres bien !
You should see how those cruise ships come in just over the top of buildings.
I think regular people is actually happy to not hear the roar of 747s above their head anymore. Living close to the airport is not the most pleasant thing.
thanks to Microsoft flight simulator 2004-X you can like me practising again and again the famous approach kaitak runway 13 and 31 virtually in 747 and still today in 2020 I used to fly and overfly and landed on KAI TAK CHEP LAP KOK and MACAO airports discovering the ENTIRE HONG KONG and SCHENZEN CITIES AREAS of course my flight simulator 2004 is alive since i add so many intelligence artificial aircrafts in kaitak and chep lap kok in same time you can feel my nostalgia when I PLAY with it ALL the Airlines companies are present in my game and the checkerboard hill approach runway 13 is operational that so GREAT
Interesting place is Kai Tak, sucks that its empty and not many bus routes go there. Speaking of Buses/Coaches, can anyone identify the Sun Bus coach seen at 1:19? Many thanks if you can!
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If you arrived at a city by cruise ship, you probably would not stay at the terminal. Having shops at the cruise terminal is probably a bad idea.
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Why is the ferry terminal so dead?
Great air quality....lol 😄😄😁😁😂😂🤣🤣😅😅😆😆
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A stadium is building in the RW13 and terminal former position
Check it con GG maps
2 April 2020. The cruise ship industry has gone. When will we see a return, if ever?
They should have started redevelopment earlier on.
Reopen Kai Tal airport now!
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So the kai tak airport doesnt exist now? :(
yes
Kai Tak closed in July 1998. Replaced by the current airport just north of Lantau Island.
Any of you are flight sim fans or interested to learn more here's a tutorial from AllFlightSim on how to fly into Kai Tak's famous IGS approAC INTO RW13 : ua-cam.com/video/Gi9svs-X3rA/v-deo.html
Why can’t they just reopen iconic Kai Tak Airport again? Don’t you think it would be better than Chep Lap Kok?
It would not even make a good back up airport. Terrible idea.
Ryan8or PH The passengers used to complain how boring the old one was, especially the approach onto the main runway. So they built a newer, larger one with more shops to keep passengers happy.
They wrecked the airport letting them build on it
Is so sad to see the Hongkong's governor wasting the most valueable land in hongkong for so long and does not kown what to do with it, how about taking Dubai as reference. I think they are not as creative as Singapore or Dubai even the main land China. In the past 10 years, Hongkong city development is way too slow. What a shame really or maybe they think Hongkong is at the top of the world so no much to do anymore.
Think about it. Hong Kongers never wanted a return to China. But China had to take it back. But now they are concentrating on Shanghai and Beijing because they were always Chinese and it saves face to concentrate on them. For China, why plough money into a place and a people who are still rebelling? HK was always going to lose out. Britain didn't want a conflict, they knew they had to give it back.
It is because they have been brain washing by the education system the Britain left behind. Taiwan in the same boat. So Half of the citizen maybe more have been affected.
If you own a house and rent to someone for so long and the parent told thier children that this house is belong to them or sort of, you can imagine what will happen in the future.
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