THE FLOOR OF THE ARRIVALS LOUNGE AT THE FORMER KAI TAK AIRPORT displays a sign that reads “No Waiting,” but a dozen people still loiter. Not to greet passengers—the last one landed five years ago—but ...

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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 ...

Kai Tak in Hong Kong was once the world's most daunting airport for even the most experienced pilots, with a concrete runway sandwiched between towering skyscrapers, mountains, and Victoria Harbour.

Hong Kong’s old Kai Tak airport was famed for its hair-raising landings, as planes skimmed apartment rooftops before touching down just minutes from bustling Kowloon. Now, the site is morphing into ...

Though bigger and swankier airports continue to open around the globe every year, the 20-year-old Hong Kong International Airport is still regarded as one of the best – and most profitable – aviation ...

Kai Tak in Hong Kong, a concrete runway sandwiched between skyscrapers, mountains and Victoria Harbour, was once the world's most daunting place to land a plane, causing even the most experienced ...

It was a warm and humid June day a few weeks before Hong Kong’s old Kai Tak Airport closed in 1998. I’d filed a feature for a British newspaper about the spanking new airport at Chek Lap Kok and had ...

HNA Group Co., the debt-laden Chinese conglomerate on a selling spree, agreed to dispose of its last plot of land near Hong Kong’s former Kai Tak airport, ending ambitions for a massive residential ...

Two of Hong Kong's billionaire property moguls have set new records with the lofty prices they've paid for land at the city's former Kai Tak airport. But in the world's least affordable housing market ...