On the beach: Thanks, but there has only been 2 controller's currently in HK making their views known, IGS and Moi. However we are both just about the oldest people here, so in my case I will claim partial (?) senility and keep bashing my head against the wall.
Throw a: We now have a procedure here "Reduced Runway Separation Minima" (RRSM) which fortunately was in action, and allowed the 777 to get away on an immediate from J9 ahead of the freighter. If we had been non RRSM (which is the usual case) and the 777 had gone to J10 then definitely NO.
Some people responding to this still seem to think that I am squawking about aircraft requesting J10. This is not the case at all. I will say it now once and for all to you drivers out there, I don't give a stuff where you ask to depart from, just a bit of well mannered notification in advance is all I want. And to add to that, if it is going to upset our (ATC) applecart, then expect to be delayed!!