2-MIN READ2-MIN ListenDenise TsangandOscar LiuPublished: 7:46pm, 13 May 2026Updated: 7:48pm, 13 May 2026The authority managing Hong Kong International Airport has taken over the retail and entertainment operations of 11 Skies from New World Development ahead of the opening of the second passenger terminal, the South China Morning Post has learned.
Multiple sources said the Airport Authority had assumed control of key components of the 2.66 million sq ft retail and dining space, representing 70 per cent of the entire project. But it remains unclear if the authority has also taken over the rest of 570,000 sq ft of experiential entertainment space and 570,000 sq ft of grade A offices.
The move marks a significantly reduced role for New World, which in 2018 won the rights to design, build and operate the HK$20 billion (US$2.5 billion) project.
During the SCMP reporter’s visit to 11 Skies on Wednesday, a five-minute walk from the AsiaWorld-Expo station on the MTR’s Airport Express line, only two restaurants were operating, including one coffee shop.
The restaurants served mainly staff working at offices upstairs.
Scheduled to open in stages from 2022 to 2025, the shopping centre’s shopfronts were largely boarded up with hoardings printed with the authority’s Skytopia project, with the lights mostly switched off.
