Editing Transport in Hong Kong (section)

===Airports===
[[File:Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport 1971.jpg|thumb|right| Kai Tak airport]]
[[File:Hong Kong International Airport.jpg|thumb|200px|Inside the newer [[Hong Kong International Airport]]]]

{{Main|Hong Kong International Airport|List of airports in Hong Kong}}
Hong Kong has a fully active international airport. The famous former [[Kai Tak International Airport]] retired in favour of the recently constructed [[Hong Kong International Airport]], also known as Chek Lap Kok International Airport. The airport now serves as a transport hub for East Asia, and as the hub for [[Cathay Pacific]], [[Hong Kong Express]], [[Hong Kong Airlines]], and [[Air Hong Kong]]. Ferry services link the airport with several [[pier]]s in [[Pearl River Delta]], where immigrations and customs are exempted. Kai Tak airport was closed because of privacy reasons and also because of safety reasons; the aircraft came very close to the skyscrapers.

HKIA's network to China expanded with the opening of SkyPier in late-September 2003, offering millions in the PRD direct access to the airport. Passengers coming to SkyPier by high-speed ferries can board buses for onward flights while arriving air passengers can board ferries at the pier for their journeys back to the PRD. Passengers travelling in both directions can bypass custom and immigration formalities, which reduces transit time. Four ports – Shekou, Shenzhen, Macau and Humen (Dongguan) – were initially served. As of August 2007, SkyPier serves Shenzhen's Shekou and Fuyong, Dongguan's Humen, Macau, Zhongshan and Zhuhai. Moreover, passengers travelling from Shekou and Macau piers can even complete airline check-in procedures with participating airlines before boarding the ferries and go straight to the boarding gate for the connecting flight at HKIA. The provision of cross boundary coach and ferry services has transformed HKIA into an inter-modal transportation hub combining air, sea and land transport.

{{As of|2009|March}}, the airport is the third busiest airport for passenger traffic,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Year to date Passenger Traffic – March 2009|work=Airports Council International|access-date=20 July 2009|date=12 June 2009|url=http://www.airports.org/cda/aci_common/display/main/aci_content07_c.jsp?zn=aci&cp=1-5-212-219-227_666_2__}}</ref> and second-busiest airport for cargo traffic in the world.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Year to date Cargo Traffic – March 2009|work=Airports Council International|access-date=20 July 2009|date=12 June 2009|url=http://www.airports.org/cda/aci_common/display/main/aci_content07_c.jsp?zn=aci&cp=1-5-212-219-227_666_2__}}</ref> It is popular with travellers – from 2001 to 2005 and 2007–2008 Hong Kong International Airport has been voted the World's Best Airport in an annual survey of several million passengers worldwide by [[Skytrax]].

According to the [[Guinness Book of World Records|Guinness World Records]], the [[Airport terminal|passenger terminal]] of the HKIA was the world's largest airport terminal upon opening, and is at present the world's third-largest airport terminal building, with a covered area of 550,000 m<sup>2</sup> and recently increased to 570,000 m<sup>2</sup>.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The 'dragon' unveiled: Beijing's T3 starts operations|work=Beijing 2008 Olympic Games|access-date=28 July 2009|date=28 February 2008|url=http://en.beijing2008.cn/news/olympiccities/beijing/n214259388.shtml|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110911114757/http://en.beijing2008.cn/news/olympiccities/beijing/n214259388.shtml|archive-date=11 September 2011}}</ref> The [[Airport Core Programme]] was one of the most expensive airport projects in the world.<ref>{{Cite book|publisher=Hong Kong University Press|isbn=978-962-209-847-3|page=169|last=Owen|first=Bernie|author2=Raynor Shaw|title=Hong Kong Landscapes: Shaping the Barren Rock|location=Hong Kong|year=2008}}</ref>

[[Shek Kong Airfield]], located near [[Yuen Long]], is a military [[airfield]] for the [[People's Liberation Army]], which is of limited operating capabilities due to surrounding terrain. The only aircraft operating on the airfield are PLA's [[Eurocopter Dauphin|Z-9]] helicopters, which is the license-built version of the Eurocopter Dauphin.