Attention passengers, your gate has changed: travellers urged to take extra care as improvement work continues at Hong Kong International Airport
- Airport authority to invest extra HK$2 billion for upgrades in Terminal 1
- Third runway and passenger concourse will eventually double size of facility
Passengers flying out of Hong Kong are being warned to pay attention to the biggest change to boarding gate numbers in more than two decades, in a revamp tied to bigger improvements and infrastructure investment.
As part of an increased HK$9 billion (US$1.1 billion) spend by the operator of Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA), a new passenger footbridge is under construction and will connect some of the concourses by 2020, which the Airport Authority said meant the boarding gates would need to be renumbered.
The authority said it was working with airlines to ensure the changes would be fully communicated to passengers.
“Overall, the whole gate transformation revamp will be concluded by 2021,” said Chapman Fong Shui-man, general manager of Terminal 1. “Together, with all the other enhancements, the Terminal 1 annexe building, the skybridge and the toilet revamp will cost HK$9 billion.”
He said the extra spend, a rise of HK$2 billion on top of the HK$7 billion investment announced last year, would be funded by the authority, with no fees or charges passed on to passengers.