We will see what comes 
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I think that since they’ve now proven at Kannur that it definitely works, they know what to do… accordingly, the project could be implemented directly at KH, and the taxiway system and aircraft navigation could be adapted accordingly. It certainly won’t be easy work, but this way they can test and practice so that it can be implemented at all airports in the future.
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That would be awesome. But I think they’ll test it at a “medium-sized” airport first. HK is already complex in one way. But who knows.
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Some more camera angles I would like to see
And then a terminal view if they decide to un retire those
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It would be great if the airport lamps at the upcoming Hong Kong international airport (HKG) were made like the ones at LEJ and SXM, not like other airports.
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Hello, does anybody know, when the stands at Terminal1 with R suffix are used? for example N34R, N60R,N62R, N64R, S33R, S29R, S25R?
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I’m not sure when they’re used per se but it appears they are where narrow body aircraft are placed instead of using the wide body centreline position. Not sure what it gains regarding the gate but here’s a document I have with the stands on,
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yeah maybe some night stoppers but looking at gate 34 and looking at HKG departure screen its only widebodies going on there
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Could be. Hard to gauge as nobody films the terminals so I had a look at google earth and there are a host of airlines narrowbody’s using the stands.
E.g. from 2023 on N34R,
Though then you have this from 2024 with an A321 using gate N36 which has markings next to it but doesn’t have an R,
It’s a weird one lol.
This is a darn good guide for the airport, though ofc its for a game.
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I can only imagine they want to free up manoeuvring space for handling on the right side of a wide body, when parked next to a narrow body
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yeah i read that guide its brilliant
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i also noticed the red gate circled stands at weds apron are used more and more as thecargo gates. i think any of the X gates are cargo stands
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That is the case. HKG is very weird in this by just putting a stand to the right of the widebody stand to accommodate a narrowbody. And not like most shared/separate stands where both stands at the left and right are available to replace that large widebody stand.
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It’s a weird mix there isn’t it 
. Could be hold cargo as well but on one google earth view they’ve parked a private jet there.
It doesn’t surprise me though with the mass increase in aerial cargo though that they’d need more stands.
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In the research I’ve done for my HKG guide, Stands on the airport diagram with R or L just mean it’s a shared stand. So if it says L, it is a D/E stand with a A/B/C stand on the left side. If it’s R, vise versa. L-R means it has two A/B/C stands.
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Maybe they have so many types operating in and out that they split off the narrowbody’s so there would be less writing on the one stand but who knows. It’s quite an odd decision.
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That’s all I can think of as well. But on some you can see they’re happy parked next to one another,
All 4 of those gates have an R ‘lane’ for narrowbody’s so it’s just very strange.
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Yeah, but those are all wide-bodies. 
I think the R lane is there to have the extra handling space, but it’s only possible when narrow-bodies are in the mix. Moving over a wide-body next to a wide-body would just lead to, well, damage.
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If I understood the question correctly, then it looks like this:
On the screenshots the stands …S33, S31, S29, S27… are shown.
R means “Right”, i.e. the right parking position shifted to the right from the centerline of the main stand. This is done so that narrow-body aircraft can be parked next to the “main” stand used for wide-body aircraft.
Stands with the R suffix are used when a narrow-body aircraft is expected, not a wide-body.
Therefore, when the airport assigns, for example, S31R, it means that stand S31 is intended specifically for a narrow-body aircraft in that “right” section.
On the screenshots you can see the dashed lines of the R positions.
But this is just how I understood the question,
and how I personally interpret the way it works.
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