Tag: HKG

• Looks like the guy who crashed out at Hong Kong Airport was trying to get on a Qantas flight

  You may have seen a video this week of a man going to work on some check-in kiosks at Hong Kong International Airport.

  The Telegraph reported that a British tourist was arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and possession of pills without a prescription, and had been trying to purchase a plane ticket before he lost it.

  Look a little closer, and you’ll see that his rampage started in Aisle J of the airport, and that he’s knocking down a Qantas check-in sign.

  Pity. Had he booked his ticket online, he could have used in-town check-in to ease his stress.

  2026.02.17

• Wellness is the future of airport lounges

  Cathay is launching a new lounge design when The Wing, First reopens in Hong Kong later this year. Details about the concept and dining areas in this interview with Executive Traveller. One quote from Guillaume Vivet, Cathay’s General Manager of Customer Experience Design, stood out to me:

  “We think about how do you deliver good wellness, a good refreshing proposition” Vivet explains, describing this proposition as “something different that achieves more for our customers to be refreshed, to be relaxed, and in the theme of the whole wellness area.”

  To me, this is the airport lounge frontier. Look at what Aman is doing with wellness at their resorts: spas, meditation, yoga, saunas, sound therapy. I can’t think of a time these would be more welcome than during a long stopover or delay.

  2026.02.01