I live in the Philippines, here many of the regional airports are little more than landing strips, taking my local airport for example, something like a 1,400m runway, no navigational aids, no runway or airfield lighting, no fuel, lots of high ground around, and the local airline, weather permitting, put ATR72's in and out up to 7 days a week and, fingers crossed, they do it safely.
And isn't Cathay Pacific an Asian airline? ... How many of you lot would like to fly the approach in to the old Kai Tak airport each and every time you were returning to home base?