Back to the original thread:
http://www.hongkongairport.com/eng/pr/pr_881.html
New facilities are being built to meet future demand. Airport Authority Airport Management Director Mr Howard Eng said, "A new lead-in taxiway, J1A, has been built to provide greater flexibility for air traffic controllers in sequencing departing aircraft, thus boosting the on-time performance of departure flights at HKIA. The new taxiway is part of the HK$4.5 billion facilities and capacity enhancement projects that we embarked on in 2006."
Lead-in taxiways are paths for aircraft to get onto the runways for departure. The J1A lead-in taxiway is located on the west side of the South Runway and will commence operation in late March.
Oh dear. Do hope they haven't wasted their money if nobody wants to risk going with 100 metres less TORA.
With bizarre BEKOL and DOTMI restrictions becoming more frequent and accepted as the norm now, it is doubtful that there will be enough aircraft taxying to warrant the dual holding point in any case.
Anyone got a pack of cards?