This CEO's corner office on the top floor was always more functionally furnished than a power play for the command centre of one of the world's top airlines. But now it looks forlorn, with empty spaces and scattered brown packing boxes.
Only a long row of model aircraft remains to show that this is still the office for the next four days for Tony Tyler before he flies away from Cathay Pacific Airways and Hong Kong to become chief executive of the International Air Transport Association (Iata), the pressure group trying to make the world a safer place for international airlines.
Tyler has had a hectic round of farewell parties, culminating in the long weekend jamboree of the Rugby Sevens, but he still looks bright-eyed, with a tall, slim figure that makes you question why leading foreign businesses force top executives to retire 20 years before a Chinese would contemplate stepping down.
He explains: 'Although I am apparently nearly 56 [next month], I don't feel like that. Retirement age is 57, so I only had another year to go, and this Iata job is an interesting, worthwhile job. If I had just waited until retirement age, the job was not going to wait for me.'
Tyler says the Iata job 'keeps me in the industry, but not running another airline. When you have run an airline like Cathay Pacific, going to run another airline would be quite difficult. It is a CEO position, working with other airline CEOs.'
Before air-conditioning, expatriates in suits sweating in the summer 35-degree heat and downing gin and tonics to ward off malaria and other ailments were probably grateful to survive to 57.
'We probably work harder now. It's pretty unrelenting, with 24-hour, seven-days-a-week information bombardment, long, intensive hours,' Tyler reflects. 'But people are much more aware of health and how to manage it, and it's also a healthier place.'