And it was in 2012 that Donald Tsang, Hong Kong's then chief executive, unveiled a plan to redevelop the former airport and its runway.In the 2011-12 Policy Address, the Hong Kong government revealed ...

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 ...

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 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.

It’s been 25 years since Hong Kong’s Kai Tak airport closed. Pilot Russell Davie and photographer Daryl Chapman remember the glory days and share a few of the scariest moments.

Now, the "Kai Tak Sky Garden," which traces part of the former runway, offers visitors a chance to tread where planes once made their nail-biting landings. The airport's transformation has racked ...

The Kai Tak Airport, better known as Hong Kong International, dutifully served the island city for nearly three quarters of a century before shutting down in 1998. But rather than let that prime ...

Kai Tak's last flight – the ceremonial and symbolic departure of a Cathay Pacific CX3340, making the short leap to Chek Lap Kok's newborn gleam in the near-distance – took off at 1.05am on ...

2025 marks the 100th anniversary of the first recorded flight from Kai Tak airport, and while the airport is now closed, Hong Kong continues to be a popular destination for tourists, with Cathay ...

Kai Tak, which served Hong Kong for more than seven decades until 1998 as the city’s sole civilian airport, got its name from a failed real estate project by two local businessmen, Ho Kai and Au ...