HONG KONG Airport 20 YEARS AGO (1998) 

Yesterday you had a look at the current traffic at Hong Kong… today we take you back 2 decades and hope you enjoy the rare pieces that are now in the aviation history books! Saturday & Sunday we will announce our 3rd & 4th winners of a $30 GIFT CERTIFICATE. Make sure you participate. Details at www.justplanes.com

So many 747s compared to today. Wild

Watching 747’s will never get old. Absolutely no aircraft is more we elegant

All Planes in here are Legends, it's sad for Concorde, but it's happen...

My goodness, the Battleship Grey United livery, Canadi>n Airlines, and MD-11's galore! What a treasure chest full of old airlines and aircraft :)

Liveries used to be so unique and beautiful. Almost everyone had a creative livery. These days however, most liveries are so dull. Thankyou for this great video justplanes.

that awkward moment when most of the liveries from back then are better than the ones now

The Singaporean Airline 747 appeared on 4:16 crashed at Taiwan in 2000

Wow, amazing video yet again! at 4:20 that is 9V-SPK, The plane that crashed as SIA006

4:40 Singapore Airlines 747-400 (9V-SPK) in Tropical Promotional Livery. The Aircraft involved in a crash before take off at the Taiwan Taoyuan Int'l Airport in Oct 2000

British airways 747-400 G-CIVA is still flying!!! Amazing :-)

Never before seen or heard aircraft by me! First, 1:37 United DHL! Second, 3:08 is cool. Third, 3:38 as a Northwest Airlines enthusiast and was a costumer, never knew they had this livery. Fourth, 5:14 is probably one of the coolest or most unique livery. Fifth, the one after previous. Sixth, 6:27 JA...Z? 8:27, 7th 8th, 9:16 TradeWinds Cargo Bonus! 0:12 seen but not heard.

Wow. It's really nice to see some of the old aeroplanes in action. I didn't know that the Concorde flew to Hong Kong

I've become addicted to the retro videos lately. Lots of planes/airlines you don't see anymore. It was more interesting then.

4:17 RIP

Being a 90s kid, this is enthralling. I was both surprised and delighted at how many 747s were present. Next, the liveries - the hotch-potch of Thai, SAS, Varig, United in its famous battleship gray, Lufthansa, and Air Canada, all partners of Star Alliance at 5:12; the dark green canopy of Cathay Pacific; the glamorous-sounding Megatop of Singapore Airlines (whose 9V-SPK was destroyed in the SQ-006 tragedy), everything brings a rush of childhood memories. I was very surprised to see the Concorde as well, considering the restrictions on supersonic travel over land it had. Did Air France route it to Hong Kong via the Pacific?

All those gorgeous 747s! The good old days

It's so funny to think that it's been over 20 years since KaiTak closed. I was there the last year and flew over the *New* HKI thinking it was so large in comparison. Amazing to watch the construction of not only the airport but the highway/bridge/train linking it with Kowloon.

10 minutes of aviation ecstasy wow what blast from the past thank you very very very much for this post straight to my favourites like the one of yours dubai in 1998 amazing so many 747-400 's and concord icing on the cake .🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌😆😆😆😆😆

RIP Kai Tak 20 Years Anniversary... THAT was a cool airport

9:30 Ansett Australia 😢 You will be missed.

Back then airline had so many more bigger planes compared to having smaller planes today. Apart from emirates with it a380’s

4:35 2 years later....

old aircraft are just amazing !! love the old jet sounds..

I missed the Concorde a lot........

8:15 that awkward moment when I get reminded over and over again about how old I am getting. Philippine Airlines' current livery/logo has been in use since the year I was born...1986.

I was born in 1998 As old as Chek Lap Kok airport😎😎😎😎😎😎😎👍👍👍👍✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈

Ah, the 90's...wonderful decade. My kingdom for a time machine. P.S. Thanks for this. :) P.P.S. LOVED that Concorde footage. :)

8:26 Wow, Merpati ever fly to HKG

Damn so many 747s. Wish they were still a common aircraft to find

There is so much joy of designing the airlines livery back then compare to now. And the mighty Queen 747 galore. What an era to live. Thanks for sharing!

Thank you for these beautiful pictures and videos For ever the airplanes

Concorde

The most powerful airplanes on one place, oh my god I’m crying :’(

4:40 F-BVFC is the only Concorde that entered service on display at manufacturer (now Airbus) museum in Toulouse Musée Aeroscopia . (Musée Aeroscopia also has F-WTSB which was a testing/production aircraft but did not fly for AF or BA.)

3:10 I never heard of British Asia airways

Great video.It shows that the airlines back then knew how to paint a plane.I miss those days.I flew to Hongkong twice in 1998 and managed to experience the old KaiTak landing on a Swissair 747-300 and MD-11.Amazing approaches with these planes.My next trip was then already to the new airport.I really miss KaiTak

So many trijets and 747 classics. If I can born 10 years earlier, i probably have chance to fly on the tristar, DC-10, and those 747. Also the MD-11 and the classic swissair... Lookback today, HKG is full of LCC carriers...

Miss so bad those good old days with precious unique liveries, and also all those 747s and DC-10s/MD-11s everywhere flying all around the world 😭😭

Historical spot for our flag carrier, Philippine Airlines. 🇵🇭✈️ "The heart of the Filipino."

So many great memories flying in and out of Hong Kong. I had even flown on the Singapore Airlines 747 at 4:16 min mark. As per says in previous post, this crashed in Taiwan. Very sad day. I had actually been in Taipei that morning before really bad weather hit. Flew to Singapore and then to Hong Kong in the evening.

When you realize that the terminal at HKG is just as modern today as it was back in the 1990s

4:14 is that the aircraft that was involved in an accident in Taiwan. SQ006

This video is really cool. Btw those livery’s are better than today.

What a wonderful collection of aircraft and liveries. It was nice to see the Canadian and United 747s.

The aviation industry has changed so much

wow, so many 747’s back then! They are now becoming rarer in this day and age.

This superb video bring back tones of memory from Kai Tak to CLK airport .

Love it! Thanks for uploading this one😀

0:27 Now that’s a tiny 747

Either scrapped or converted into freighters, great liveries back in the day...

@ 8:39 an South African Airways , in old SAA livery , nice

Wow quite the archive! Definitely a throwback.

Fantastic video ....the livery’s back then were a way better than they are currently....seeing an old tristar in their was great .... Didn’t work out all so good for the last aircraft, the Ansett-Australia 747 succumb to damage on linding At Sydney airport before the airline went broke & the aircraft was re-leased back to Cathay I think ....sad day down under went Ansett went into liquidation

I truly miss the old days of aviation

5:13 you dont know who your flying, but since air Canada is at the front, I think that's the airline

Man, widebody DC-10s/MD-11s we’re everywhere and no stupid A380s were around to soil the scenery, I truly hate the A380, the 747 forever will be the wide body king of the skies

So many great memories. Amazing!

The 90s was the best decade for liveries

Cool! All my childhood memories back!

*The Snoop droop of the Concorde is so sharp that no aircraft dares to fly near it*

Remember my first landing at Kai tak , Spring 82 via Pan am . Pan am shaved of 30 ft from tail section of 747 to add fuel and hopefully make it non stop westbound from sfo. They called it the SP. United took over pan am route a couple of years later and new 747 series guaranteed no fuel stop westbound leg when jet stream winds not favorable. Lived in HKG several years in 80s and Also my hub for other travel through out Asia and sub. Flew in/out of there including new airport for 30 years.. I miss hkg and the that last right turn just at minimums.

So much variety to compare with nowadays, and If the old airport was still open I'd be straight there with all my kit!

Beauty of aviation :)

crazy that just 20 years ago trijets were still a common sight at airports

Many Boeing 747, MD-11 and Rare Concorde That Time.

Lived there pre 1997 and always enjoyed the white knuckle landings....

2:07 great to see the queen in the Malaysian airlines colours

Lovely. Very busy airport

Thank you!

Singapore 006😭

Those are my childhood, I'm getting old now.

Okay, whoever made that Air Canada A340 livery was out of their minds. Just all the Star Alliance logos fit together until the United one.

4:39, this Singapore Airlines 744 was the same one involved in the Flight 006 crash on October 31, 2000 at Taipei. Registration is 9V-SPK

I miss MD-11😢

Use to fly on Cathay Pacific’s 747 into HK as a kid each year! Really miss the 747…. Shame CX modern crews aren’t as friendly as back in the day.

So many 747's. Sad that most of them in this photo have been scrapped. As 4 flights a day in a 747 have been replaced by 5-7 flights in something smaller like an A330, 777, 787, etc the same thing has happened at smaller airports. At my local airport in Nashville(BNA), you rarely see anything larger than a 737 or A320, stuff like the 767, 757, A330, have been moved out with more frequent flights in the narrow body aircraft. Lots of those Embraer and Bombardier jets as well at my airport.

Look how many 747's on 2000, Boeing was the king, look nowadays...

Wow I wonder if any of the airframes in this video are still flying in some capacity today.

THIS A GREAT VIDEO I AM SUBSCRIBEING

4:41 The real queen of the skies

Why is the 747 so rare these days? I only saw a cargo one once.

Long before the A380 crashed the party and got the cops called...

8:37 ZS-SAN, Boeing 747-244 of South African Airways in old 1980s livery. ZS-SAN is now on display at the SAA Museum in Rand, South Africa (in the current livery)

A Philippine Airlines 747, what a beauty!

4:32, that aircraft was brand new and crashed just months after being put into service, that is some very rare footage of it!

*Beautiful.*

Amazing tribute to Kai Tak - super!

Wow that A340 star alliance livery is dope!

Those years The 747 was so poppular

Continental Micronesia!!! Wow what a throwback !

8:15 Philippine Airlines with A Centennial Sticker

the time when quad-jets and tri-jets dominated the sky...

Same year i was born, man that was long ago!

I have a DVD with only Kai Tak, effin love it. But early days of Chep Lap is also pretty cool.

back when DC-10s and 747s were everywhere and air canada was all over the place cathay pacific had a really nice paint scheme concordes were still a thing something called british asia airways a thing but i was never alive to see that probably

Thanks for sharing, I miss concorde

So much diversity in both liveries and planes.... now I only see white fuselages and a320s 30s or 737s and 777s....

so many airlines used 747 at that time really a queen of skies

4:42 unpopular opinion: concorde without that supersonic protective cockpit layer looks so much better. But again it is there because of the supersonic powers