Behind the scenes at Hong Kong International Airport: how we manage 1,100 flights per day
Thousands of staff work night and day to keep the runways clear for more than 68 million travellers a year
Thousands of crew members work around the clock to ensure Hong Kong International Airport, one of the world’s top ten busiest, is efficient and safe.
As travellers make their way to and from departure and arrival gates, intricate coordination goes into cleaning the runways and prepping the ground itself for landings and take-offs.
Hong Kong’s information services department yesterday released a video showing exactly how it’s all done to ready the airport for its average 1,100 flights a day.
As the city sleeps and travellers camp out on hard seats, maintenance crews spring into action in the night to clean the runway of built up tyre rubber.
Passenger jets landing at an average speed of 260 to 280km/h leave rubber on the tarmac, explained Eric Cheung, the Airport Authority Airfield Duty Manager. The accumulating build up makes the runway slippery, especially on humid and rainy days.
