a strange one for my fellow members

[stevewool]

Just from my own experience, I think it must vary depending on who the tickets are booked with. Last few times with Cathay we had 30kg at least three times and 40kg at least twice.
Last 3 times has been via Crystal Travel I know one of those was 40kg.
Never had anything less than 30kg all the years I ever flown with Cathay. (via agent)

20kgs is all they are giving us this time terpe

[alanp]

Hi Steve
just a thought when i went to see jen in dec 2009 i put the xmas gifts for Jen and her family in a box sealed it up and put that in a balikbayan box with the chocolates coffee etc that i normally send and when it arrived end of november Jennie just hid the box away till i got there for christmas. I saved putting the gifts in my case though i did end up taking some others gifts just in case i forgot someone

[stevewool]

thanks alan , emma says that she is taking no cloths because she can use her sisters so her case will be empty, i have just got to deside is she fishing for new cloths in hongkong and the phils or telling the truth

[alanp]

on my return i had to bring some of jennies clothes and shoes and some winter jackets her relatives from america sent her. I was glad i did not get stopped at customs i did not want to explaint why i had size 5 high heals in my bag

[grahamw48]

Small world I used to see Mitch in Wanchai most weekends,I remember him getting off and getting p*ssed up that weekend
I wonder if May is still with Dave?I think her daughter dumped her scouse hubbie,leastways thats the rumours I heard on the grapevine,funny the things you hear in Neptunes and Pussycats

Yes, same May and Dave.
Wasn't it 'George' who May's daughter married ? I knew them too. They also moved over to live on Lantau when I did.

I've got a photo of May somewhere...will have to dig it out.

Yep...small world.

[steve monty]

Hi Steve.

I was plant operating...big offroad dump trucks, front loaders, backhoes (excavators).

One of the biggest problems they had on the airport was with water coming up through the ground, which consisted of millions of tons of rock just dumped into the sea and then covered with a few feet of sand.

There are a couple of big tunnel systems running under the runways ('cut and cover' types), so they had to build coffer dams along the length of the earthworks first to keep the water out.

Lots of other problems too..but wouldn't want to bore you.

That's what makes construction work so interesting though.

It was the biggest construction site in the world then. Finally having a total workforce of 20,000 when they were finishing it off and building the Terminals.

I also worked on a 'proper' 23km tunnel system over near Kowloon and the New Territories. Granite rock, with tunnel boring machines,etc, and running below the sea for part of the route.
Now that project REALLY had some problems.
Great job though, if damned hard graft.

Here is one of the tunnels going in on the airport. It finished up being about a quarter mile long, and included a roundabout inside it.
Looking directly ahead you can see the main Lantau Island.
There WAS a little village just across there until the mid-90s. That is almost a mini-HongKong now....such is the incredible rate of development in both HK and mainland China.

It must have been amazing to work on those projects! It fascinates me how people come up with the ideas and be able to achieve them. Was a few feet of sand enough?!?! You must have loved the diversity of the job as i do being a plumber, doing different things each day. The 23km tunnel system sounds mad! What was it, spagetti junction underground??

[grahamw48]

Hi Steve.

Yes it was interesting work...never a dull moment, and lots of opportunities for Brits then.

One of my friends was an Electrical foreman on the tunnel, and then went on to be in charge of installing all the runway lighting on the airport. He only came across (from the Phils) because I told him he could get work, even though he was fifty odd and thought he was too old to get work anymore. Ended up running a Porsche !

Another friend was a plumber and finished up in charge of buying in all the supplies for one of the biggest contractors out there.

Great days.

Maybe you could have fixed this pipe that burst right in front of me as I was loading up with 40 tons of ice cubes (don't ask ) off a barge one day. It was about a foot across and made a nice distraction.

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[aposhark]

Just from my own experience, I think it must vary depending on who the tickets are booked with. Last few times with Cathay we had 30kg at least three times and 40kg at least twice.
Last 3 times has been via Crystal Travel I know one of those was 40kg.
Never had anything less than 30kg all the years I ever flown with Cathay. (via agent)

Thanks for the comment Terpe.
Now I realise agents must get different prices from the airlines relected in the baggage allowance.