Ready for takeoff: Virus-bound Hong Kongers eye flights to anywhere

City residents scramble for tickets after years of strict COVID curbs

20220902 HK travelers

Travelers await check-in at Hong Kong International Airport. The global financial hub was largely isolated during the pandemic. © Reuters

PEGGY YE, Contributing writer

HONG KONG -- When Mandy Cheng heard that Hong Kong was cutting its unpopular hotel quarantine to just three days, she scrambled to buy tickets for her first trip outside the financial hub in over two years.

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