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MAIL CENTRE

APRON PIER

APRON WORKSHOP

APRON CONTROL TOWER

waiting area, which contains shops, post office and cable facilities, a buffet and the airport restaurant overlooking the airport. This wait- ing room is top lit from a grid of roof dome lights.

When their flight is called passen- gers move to one of the four stair- cases above the customs channel allocated to their flight.

They pass through a barrier divid- ing the waiting hall from the head of the stair and here leave their friends and proceed to the ground floor.

Friends move forward to the waving bay on the roof of the Health Examination Halls to watch the aircraft take off.

After customs inspection on the ground floor passengers pass to a waiting hall on the air-side of the building. When called from this hall they cross an enclosed bridge over a sunken road between the main building and the Health Halls.

The Health Hall itself is by-passed by departing passengers who walk down the ramps of the apron piers to one of the four exit fingers and from the finger to the aircraft.

Passengers boarding aircraft on the more distant stands of the apron may be taken by bus from bus load- ing areas on each extremity of the piers.

Friends coming to meet arriving passengers will enter the building at the Visitors Entrance on the ground floor and pass upstairs to the Visi- tors Hall on the first floor.

Provision has been made to extend the Visitors Hall in the future by the addition of a further 12,000 sq. ft. of floor area in a block on the N.W. corner of the first floor. The corresponding increase at ground floor will provide for the extension of the Arrivals Concourse and a lar- ge staff canteen. An escalator for friends access between ground and first floor is planned in the extension.

A buffet counter is provided and there is direct access to the air port restaurant from the Visitors Hall.

When the aircraft has arrived friends would then move back to the

Approach side of the Airport Terminal at Kai Tak.

Arrivals Concourse on the ground floor to meet the arriving passengers.

Arriving passengers will either walk or be taken by bus from the aircraft to the apron piers, then proceed up the ramps to the Health Examination Hall. After these for- malities they pass the Immigation Officer at a desk at the entrance to their particular customs channel.

Customs inspection is carried out on long benches for the length of each channel. Baggage is then either carried by porters through the arrivals concourse or is taken by trolley to baggage claim which opens on to the concourse.

Porters have a separate waiting room in the Arrivals Concourse. Here also are tourist agency, left luggage, car and hotel hire facilities. Arriving passengers board their road transport at ground floor level. To reduce the handling to a mini- baggage will be conveyed entirely on trolleys.

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Departing passengers baggage is packed on the trolley at first floor and when a flight is called for depar- ture the trolleys loaded for that flight are taken by a specially designed conveyor to the ground floor.

Here they are locked together end to end and are towed by tug down an internal ramp to basement level, from here up another external ramp

AIRCRAFT PARKING APRON

OFFICE BLOCK

QADING BAY

FVE

WAY

COVERED WAY

APRON PIER

CAR

PARK

MET OBSERVATION & BRIEFING

APPROACH CONT

CONTROL

TOWER

APRON

DEPARTURES CONCOURSE

OFFICE

BLOCK

POWER ROOM

ENTRANCE

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ARRIVALS CONCOURSE

CAR

PARK