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CX2034, Hong Kong -> Beijing, October 18 03:25 - 06:35

Yeah, a red-eye flight. It was pretty interesting in several ways:

• Nearly everything at the HKIA shut down after midnight. Even the drinking fountains… damn. The only places still open were Cafe de Coral and Ajisen Ramen. Cafe de Coral was doing better business than Ajisen by far; loads of immigration and customs officers were having their supper there.

• They closed down the people mover as it is being extended to a new building outside of the restricted area. Actually how does that work?

• First time at HKIA that the plane was at a remote gate and we had to take a bus ride, because…

• … CX2034 was a cargo plane. Being a cargo plane means we had a pretty long bus ride from the passenger terminal to the air cargo terminal. Also, everyone were allocated seats at the very back of the plane, and the flight attendants had us stay where we were assigned for the entire flight, in order to maintain the plane’s stability.