{"id":74944,"date":"2024-06-28T20:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T10:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/hong-kong-kai-tak-airport-facts-list\/"},"modified":"2024-06-28T20:00:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T10:00:11","slug":"hong-kongs-legendary-kai-tak-airport-5-fast-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=74944","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong&#8217;s Legendary Kai Tak Airport: 5 Fast Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            The <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/kai-tak\/\">Kai Tak Airport<\/a> was Hong Kong&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/hong-kong-kai-tak-approach\/\">infamously difficult and dangerous to take off and land<\/a> international airport between 1925 and 1998. The airport had water on three sides and Kowloon City&#8217;s dense residential apartment complexes and mountains to the northeast. Landing at the airport was technically demanding and was considered one of the world&#8217;s scary airports. Today, the new <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/hong-kong-international-airport\/\">Hong Kong International Airport<\/a> is located far outside the urban sprawl; <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/hong-kong-airport-integral-aviation-hub\/\">it is recovering from the COVID pandemic and is one of the world&#8217;s top airport hubs<\/a>.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kai Tak was once one of the world&#8217;s scariest airports, but today, it is being redeveloped into one of Hong Kong&#8217;s most modern districts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,475,231,408,695,3367,10976],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airports","category-asia","category-history","category-hong-kong","category-hong-kong-airport","category-kai-tak"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74945,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74944\/revisions\/74945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}