Should I stay or should I go - Hong Kong [protests]

[mini2]

There's some trying to catch a ferry to Macau/China...oh the irony.

 

[JB expat]

It sounds like those flights on the way will get through. But it doesn’t sound like departures are happening.
Meanwhile all the demonstrators are inside the airport and the police are outside the ready to tear gas them, baton them, shoot them with rubber bullets, etc.

But how can a passenger safely get through the airport and into HKG?

 

[JB expat]

I'm following because I'm on CX on 25 Aug - Melb to HKG with a day in our HKG office and then onto PEK next day. Returning same route but without a layover. There are going to be so many people like me trying to re-route MEL to SYD - then direct to PEK.

 

[mini2]

CX/KA ticketing guideline

 

[Cruiser Elite]

Prepare for what is coming - HQ will not sit on their hands and watch on for much longer.

 

[JB expat]

CX/KA ticketing guideline

Thanks - good for today/tomorrow. Unfortunately, not so useful re: deciding what to do about a flight 12 days out. If they do it day by day, it is going to be difficult for business travelers (all travelers really) - if they do it for say, the next 3 weeks, they lose so much money. I don't see how CX is going to navigate this without having heaps of angry passengers. Yes, we all get this isn't their fault, but that doesn't change how this will play out for CX. I'm looking at Q right now.

 

[JB expat]

Prepare for what is coming - HQ will not sit on their hands and watch on for much longer.

Agree.

 

[mini2]

Reposition yourself to CAN or PVG and fly from there instead?

 

[Cossie]

Sigh, blind freddie could have told anyone and everyone what was going to happen. Hope I'm wrong, but history speaks volumes, Tiananmen Square anyone?

 

[Cossie]

Prepare for what is coming - HQ will not sit on their hands and watch on for much longer.

Doesn't make it right though, does it?

 

[Cruiser Elite]

Doesn't make it right though, does it?

Irrelevant - I can give you the Big Dog’s email addy if you think communicating your thoughts to him might make a difference.

 

[Melburnian1]

This site is also quite good:

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Indeed. It's based in Singapore and is usually very enjoyable to watch. Covers the whole gamut of Asia and has surprisingly good coverage of nations like Philippines. It isn't just about Singapore, Hong Kong and mainland communist (jackboots) China.

 

[Melburnian1]

Irrelevant - I can give you the Big Dog’s email addy if you think communicating your thoughts to him might make a difference.

It's far from "irrelevant."

Appeasement wasn't a success in the 1930s against a different threat and it won't be today against Marxist mainland China's bullying:

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[Cossie]

Irrelevant - I can give you the Big Dog’s email addy if you think communicating your thoughts to him might make a difference.

And this fits in how? Human rights anyone? or is it just for the so called 'greater good'?

P.S. As if I really care if you are on the big dog's mailing list, whom ever that may be, and I don't care and I don't want to know if you are on first name terms with them, it's still no excuse.

 

[zenyattamondatta]

Sigh, blind freddie could have told anyone and everyone what was going to happen. Hope I'm wrong, but history speaks volumes, Tiananmen Square anyone?

Do please tell us just what is going to happen.

 

[Cossie]

Dunno for sure, I'm just guessing, it is after all a one party communist state without a great deal of concern for individual rights, but of course ymmv. I truly hope that it isn't a repeat of 1989, or have you forgotten what happened then?

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[vlocity160]

My partner and I are scheduled to fly to HKG with QF this coming Friday on our way to Europe. We'll depart there on Sunday heading for Europe with CX. We're not too concerned.

The reports at the moment are that the majority of protesters are clearing out of the airport and heading back to the city. I imagine that some will stay and continue to protest but the vast majority have chosen to leave.

I imagine that the protesters wouldn't want to put the international community offside by shutting down the airport internationally. They want people to come and see what they are experiencing and have their backs. Shutting down an airport won't allow that.

 

[kpc]

Some scary scenes at HKIA: Hong Kong grounds all flights as protest paralyzes airport: Live updates

 

[JB expat]

Given up looking for alternatives. I need to depart late on Thursday due to meetings. I must be home sometime Friday night (wake up in Melb on Sat) - the CX flights I have are the only ones that work for me. I will cross my fingers for myself and HKG that things settle in the next 1-2 weeks - and not because of any extreme actions. You have to wonder how many companies would exit HKG within 12 months if something like Tienanmen were to happen again (and in HKG).

 

[Melburnian1]

While this may reflect the recency of the 'occupation' of HKG by demonstrators, as at 2045 AEST Air China (CA), China Eastern (MU) and China Southern (CZ) airlines had not warned in a note on their websites of flight cancellations to and from HKG.

I wonder how majority Chinese-government owned entities explain such "uprisings?"

Certainly not by reference to a 'people's fight for democracy.'

China Airlines (CI) from democratic Taiwan is warning of the 'access control measures' in place at HKG, supposedly allowing only travellers inside the airport (not the case today) but hasn't yet updated its site to warn in a special notice of TPE - HKG flight canellations:

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The other large Taiwanese airline, EVA Air (BR) has a prominent note at the top of its website, at least the Taiwanese Rnglish language version:

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