The tightest city in the world

When asked about airports, one official stated: “There’s all the airports in the world, then there is Hong Kong.” Of course he was referring to Hong Kong’s Kai Tak airport. Kai Tak is a thing of the past, having been replaced by a new airport situated miles from the dangerously high number of high rise apartment buildings right in the path of the approach to the runway. Planes then had to come in...