Beijing Daxing International Airport

The airport Beijing Daxing ( IATA code and ICAO code are still open ) is a Chinese infrastructure project. In addition to the recent Beijing airport to the north of the city, has its limits, to be built another airport in the south of the capital Beijing.

The existing airport in Beijing was three years in a row the airport with the second most passengers worldwide after Atlanta and reached its capacity limit. In the south of the capital is already the Airport Beijing Nanyuan, which has only one runway.

Plans

The license was granted in January 2013; construction can begin in 2014; he scheduled to open in 2018.

According to website of the airport planner Netherlands Airport Consultants BV ( NACO ), the new major airport will have a total of eight start and runways, one of which is reserved for purely military purposes. For the first phase, which will have a capacity of 45 million passengers, four take-off and landing runways are planned. Thus, up to 650,000 aircraft movements can be handled per year.

In the final stage, the airport will have seven runways and be designed for up to 130 million passengers. He would thus have a runway more than the Denver airport, which has six lanes. 2011 one even spoke of nine runways.

The airport Beijing Daxing is to be used exclusively by the SkyTeam Alliance, which belong to three Chinese airlines. The machines of the Star Alliance, who also belongs to Lufthansa will continue to fly to Beijing airport. This gives rise to two full hubs in Beijing, for example, instead of splitting the domestic and international traffic on two airports.