Interesting. I was just in hk 2 weeks ago. You'd never see that many cx tails parked all over the airport at mid day before covid. To think they can make it look like it used to (fully utilize all aircraft like they used to) is really funny. I'd have to see it to believe it. Propaganda talk won't do.
Hk itself is far from recovered to pre covid. Nothing even close to the crowds that regularly filled various businesses. The economy is down and flat still. They don't know what to do with various maga building projects close to completion with the commercial vacancy rates well below normal existing presently.
Who will fly on this restored capacity they dream of anyway? Locals aren't spending money like before. I certainly didn't see anywhere near the amount of tourists we used to see in hk back in the day. Good paying jobs expats used to come to hk for don't exist anymore. Not just pilot jobs and others, but Specifically those high paying banking jobs are gone along with the tax income and spending back into hk economy that came along with.
High roller club table bills i used to see paid at $50,000 hkd don't exist anymore. When i asked a certain club owner i used to frequent often what happened to those tables he told me those tables don't happen anymore, those bankers and corporate lawyers are gone. Half laughing, half crying. LKF still looks like a ghost town compared to how full of people it was before. More and more people are going to shenzen for shopping and even just for dinner spending their money there because they don't have the money like before and it's so much cheaper there.
Who will spend into this dream of restoration to pre covid?
Still watching with popcorn and waiting.