Beijing hopes glitzy new airport will take off as aviation hub 0 SHARES Share it! Located 46 kilometers (29 miles) south of Tiananmen Square, Beijing Daxing International Airport will be able to handle 45 million passengers by 2021, with plans for 72 million by 2025 and 100 million by 2040. Now — with the airport code PKX — Daxing is seen as an embodiment of the “Chinese dream” Xi has offered his fellow citizens. Traveller Xie Hangyu said the check-in procedures were “very smooth and very convenient.”The current Beijing Capital International Airport — the world’s second-largest — is already overflowing, handling 100 million passengers last year. With the opening of Daxing, Beijing joins a select group of cities, including Tokyo, London, Paris and New York, that have two long-haul international airports.

Source: Manila Bulletin September 28, 2019 13:52 UTC