Rail: Hong Kong International Airport can be reached by the
Airport Express, a dedicated high-speed rail link provided by the MTR. It takes 24 minutes to reach the airport from the central Hong Kong station,
via Kowloon and Tsing Yi stations. Airport Express passengers may check-in for their flights up to a day before their departure, depending on the
airline they are travelling with. Check-in counters are available at both the Hong Kong and Kowloon stations on the Airport Express Line.
Passengers may also take the 1-minute journey to AsiaWorld-Expo, which is located also in Chek Lap Kok. This portion of the Airport Express was
opened from 20 Dec 2005.
In the latest policy address by Donald Tsang Yam-kuen, the chief executive of the Special Administrative Region, the government will soon start
the study of building a railway connecting between Hong Kong International Airport and Shenzhen Baoan International Airport.
Bus: Numerous city bus services are provided between the airport and most of the city, both by Citybus, New Lantao Bus, Long Win Bus and
Discovery Bay Bus (DB02R) from both the Airport Ground Transportation Centre and Cheong Tat Road.
In the various bus terminals in the City, bus routes that goes to the Airport are marked with the letter "A", "E", "S" and "N" on the route number.
No matter where you are located in Hong Kong, any bus that starts with an "A" or an "E" on Citybus' CityFlyers or Long Win Bus' Airbus means that it
goes to the airport, except routes E21A, E21X and E31. Some of the buses are also marked with a special orange color. These buses are also specially
designed to carry large amounts of luggage.
Ferry: Direct ferry services are available from the airport to various destinations throughout the Pearl River Delta. Passengers using these
services are treated as transit passengers and are not considered to have entered Hong Kong for immigration purposes. For this reason, access to the
ferry terminal is before immigration in the airport for arriving passengers. Check-in services are available at these piers. Four ports – Shekou,
Shenzhen, Macau and Humen (Dongguan) – were initially served, extending to Guangzhou and Zhongshan at the end of 2003. The Zhuhai service began on
10 July 2007. However, at this moment, these services are available to air passengers only.
Taxi: Hong Kong International Airport is served by three different types of taxi, distinguished by their color:
- Urban taxis (red) connect the Airport with Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, and parts of the new towns of Tsuen Wan, Sha Tin and Tseung Kwan O.
(Urban taxis can reach entire Hong Kong except southern Lantau Island).
- New Territories taxis (green) connect the airport with the New Territories, excepting those parts of the Tsuen Wan, Sha Tin and Tseung Kwan O
served by urban taxis.
- Lantau taxis (blue) connect the airport with the rest of Lantau Island.
There is a surcharge for luggage. The passenger is also responsible for toll charges going through tunnels or bridges.
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