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Beijing Capital International Airport
北京首都国际机场
Běijīng Shǒudū Guójì Jīchǎng
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IATA: PEK – ICAO: ZBAA
– WMO: 54511
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Beijing Capital International Airport Company Limited
Serves Beijing
Location Chaoyang-Shunyi
Hub for
Focus city for
Elevation AMSL 116 ft / 35 m
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Website en.bcia.com.cn
Map
PEK is located in China
PEK
PEK
Location in China
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
18L/36R 3,810 12,500 Asphalt
18R/36L 3,445 11,302 Asphalt
01/19 3,810 12,500 Concrete[1]
Statistics (2014)
Passengers 86,130,390
Aircraft movements 581,773
Tonnes of cargo 1,831,167
Economic & social impact $6.5 billion & 571.7 thousand[2]
Beijing Capital International Airport
Traditional Chinese 北京首都國際機場
Simplified Chinese 北京首都国际机场
Beijing Airports

Beijing Capital International Airport (IATA: PEK, ICAO: ZBAA) is the main international airport serving Beijing. It is located 32 km (20 mi) northeast of Beijing's city center, in an enclave of Chaoyang District and the surroundings of that enclave in suburban Shunyi District.[4] The airport is owned and operated by the Beijing Capital International Airport Company Limited, a state-controlled company. The airport's IATA Airport code, PEK, is based on the city's former romanized name, Peking.[note 1]

Beijing Capital International Airport is the main hub for Air China, the flag carrier of the People's Republic of China, which flies to around 120 destinations (excluding cargo) from Beijing. Hainan Airlines and China Southern Airlines also use the airport as their hub.

Beijing Capital added Terminal 3 in 2008 in time for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, the second largest airport terminal in the world after Dubai International Airport's Terminal 3, and the sixth largest building in the world by area. Beijing Capital International Airport covers 1,480 hectares (3,700 acres) of land.

Beijing Capital has rapidly ascended in rankings of the world's busiest airports in the past decade. It had become the busiest airport in Asia in terms of passenger traffic and total traffic movements by 2009. It has been the world's second busiest airport in terms of passenger traffic since 2010. The airport registered 557,167 aircraft movements (take-offs and landings), ranking 6th in the world in 2012.[3] In terms of cargo traffic, Beijing airport has also witnessed rapid growth. By 2012, the airport had become the 13th busiest airport in the world by cargo traffic, registering 1,787,027 tonnes.[3]

History

The Capital Airport in 1959
U.S. President Richard Nixon's Air Force One at the Capital Airport in 1972.

Beijing Airport was opened on 2 March 1958. The airport then consisted of one small terminal building, which still stands to this day, apparently for the use of VIPs and charter flights. On 1 January 1980, a newer, larger Terminal 1 – green in colour – opened, with docks for 10 to 12 aircraft. The terminal was larger than the one built in the 1950s, but by the mid-1990s, its size became relatively inadequate.

The first International flight to China and Beijing Capital International Airport was of Pakistan International Airlines from Islamabad.

In late 1999, to mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of the PRC, the airport experienced a new round of expansion as Terminal 2 opened on 1 November of that year. Terminal 1 was then temporarily closed for renovation after the opening of Terminal 2. 20 September 2004 saw the opening of a renovated Terminal 1, which at that time solely handled China Southern Airlines' domestic and international flights from Beijing.[5] Other airlines' domestic and international flights still operated in Terminal 2.

Another round of expansion started in 2007. A third runway opened on 29 October 2007, to relieve congestion on the other two runways.[6] Terminal 3 (T3) was completed in February 2008, in time for the Beijing Olympics. This colossal expansion also included a rail link to the city-center. At its opening, the new Terminal 3 was the largest man made structure in the world in terms of area covered, and a major landmark representing Beijing as the growing and developing Chinese capital. The expansion was largely funded by a 30 billion yen loan from Japan and a 500-million-euro (USD 625 million) loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB). The loan is the largest ever granted by the EIB in Asia; the agreement was signed during the eighth China-EU Summit held in September 2005.[7]

Fresh from hosting the 2008 Olympic Games and adding its new terminal building, Beijing Capital has overtaken Tokyo Haneda to be the busiest airport in Asia based on scheduled seat capacity.[8]

Due to limited capacity at Beijing Capital International Airport, a new airport in Daxing is being planned. The project was given final approval on 13 January 2013. Construction began in late 2014 and is expected to be completed in 2018.[9] It is not yet clear how flights will be divided between the two airports; a possible plan is that all airlines of the SkyTeam airline alliance are to move to the new airport.[10]

Terminals

Ground view of Terminals 1 (foreground) and Terminal 2 (with blue roof, in background) in 2005. Terminal 2's air traffic control tower in the background has since been demolished)

Terminal 1

Terminal 1, with 60,000 m2 (650,000 sq ft) of space, opened on 1 January 1980, and replaced the smaller existing terminal which had been in operation since 1958.[11] Terminal 1 was closed for renovation from 1999 to 20 September 2004, during which all airlines operated from Terminal 2. Featuring 16 gates, it was the operational base for the domestic routes of China Southern Airlines and a few other airlines such as Xiamen Airlines and Chongqing Airlines, and was originally planned to handle domestic traffic excluding those to Hong Kong and Macau.

With the opening of Terminal 3, the terminal was closed for light refurbishment, and its airlines were moved to Terminal 2 on 20 May 2008.[12] Terminal 1 reopened for a second time on 27 June 2008, and became the operational base for all domestic flights operated by the HNA Group including those of Hainan Airlines, Grand China Air, Beijing Capital Airlines and Tianjin Airlines, while all HNA Group's international flights as well as those to Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan remain in Terminal 2.[13]

Terminal 2

Terminal 2 interior

Terminal 2 opened on 1 November 1999, with a floor area of 336,000 m2 (3,620,000 sq ft).[11] This terminal was used to replace Terminal 1 while the latter was undergoing renovation, cramping all airlines despite being far bigger than Terminal 1. It can handle twenty aircrafts at docks connecting directly to the terminal building. Prior to the opening of Terminal 3, all international flights (and the majority of the domestic flights) operated from this terminal. This terminal now houses China Southern Airlines, China Eastern Airlines, Skyteam, Air Koryo, and other domestic and international flights other than those operated by Air China, Shanghai Airlines, Star Alliance members and Oneworld members. A gate capable of handling the A380 (gate 21) was also built at the terminal.

Terminals 1 and 2 are linked by a public walkway that it takes about 10–15 minutes to traverse. Shuttle buses connect all three terminals.

Terminal 3

Terminal 3-E from airfield and Air China planes parked at the terminal.
An Etihad Airways A330, a British Airways Boeing 747, a Finnair Airbus A330, and 2 Air China A330s being parked at Terminal 3.
Exterior of Terminal 3, designed for Star Alliance airlines colocation.
International check-in, Terminal 3
Duty-free shops
A model of an ancient Chinese armilliary sphere in Terminal 3.
Airport Express train station inside the Terminal 3 Transportation Centre
Exterior of the Terminal 3 Transportation Centre

Construction of Terminal 3 started on 28 March 2004, and the terminal opened in two stages. Trial operations commenced on 29 February 2008, when seven airlines including British Airways, El Al Israel Airlines, Qantas, Qatar Airways, Shandong Airlines and Sichuan Airlines moved into the terminal. Twenty other airlines followed when the terminal became fully operational on 26 March 2008.[14] Currently, it mainly houses Air China, Oneworld, Star Alliance, and other domestic and international flights which are not operated from Terminal 2. Star Alliance members LOT Polish Airlines, Scandinavian Airlines, Lufthansa, Austrian Airlines, United Airlines, Air Canada, Turkish Airlines, Thai Airways International, Singapore Airlines, and Air China use Terminal 3-E as part of the Move Under One Roof program to co-locate alliance members.

Terminal 3 was designed by a consortium of NACO (Netherlands Airport Consultants B.V), UK Architect Foster and Partners and ARUP. Lighting was designed by UK lighting architects Speirs and Major Associates. The budget of the expansion is US$3.5 billion. Much larger in size and scale than the other two terminals, Terminal 3 was the largest airport terminal-building complex in the world to be built in a single phase, with 986,000 m2 (10,610,000 sq ft) in total floor area at its opening.[11] It features a main passenger terminal (Terminal 3C) and two satellite concourses (Terminal 3D and Terminal 3E), all of them five floors above ground and two underground, with the letters "A and B" omitted to avoid confusion with the existing Terminals 1 and 2. Only two concourses were initially opened, namely Terminal 3C dedicated for domestic flights and Terminal 3E for international flights. Terminal 3D officially opened on 18 April 2013. The newly opened concourse is temporarily used solely by Air China for some of its domestic flights.[15]

Terminal 3 of the BCIA is currently the second largest airport passenger terminal building of the world. Its title as the world's largest was surrendered on 14 October 2008 to Dubai International Airport's Terminal 3 which has 1,713,000 m2 (18,440,000 sq ft) of floor space.

On 20 July 2013, a man in a wheelchair detonated small homemade explosives which exploded in Terminal 3 of the Beijing International Airport. The bomber, reported to be Ji Zhongxing, was injured and taken to a hospital for his injuries. No other people were hurt.[16][17]

System, security and luggage

Terminal 3 has a 300,000 m2 (3,200,000 sq ft) transportation centre with a 7,000-car garage. The transportation centre has designated traffic lanes for airport buses, taxis and private vehicles. Travelers bound for T3 can exit their vehicles and enter T3 within five minutes. There is also a station for the Airport Express Line of the Beijing Subway.

Terminal 3 has 243 elevators, escalators or moving walkways. Each row of seats in the waiting area has electrical outlets. Every restroom has a diaper changing station. There is also a room for travelers with disabilities[citation needed].

One of Terminal 3's highlights is the US$240 million luggage-transfer system. The luggage system is equipped with yellow carts, each of which has a code that matches the bar code on every piece of luggage loaded and allows easy and accurate tracking. More than 200 cameras are used to monitor activities in the luggage area.

The luggage system can handle 19,200 pieces of luggage per hour. After a luggage is checked in at any of the 292 counters in Terminal 3C, it can be transferred at a speed of ten metres per second. Hence, a luggage can travel from T3C to T3E in five minutes. Arriving passengers should be able to begin retrieving their luggage within 4.5 minutes after airplanes are unloaded.

Besides X-ray scanners, additional equipment are used to conduct baggage screening. Passengers will be able to check in their luggage at the airport from several hours to even a day before their flights. The airport will store the luggage in its luggage system and then load it on the correct aircraft.

Appearance

A view down a long vista on the inside of an airport terminal building. Tot the right are check-in stations; to the left a long row of tall white round smooth pillars go up to the ceiling, where triangular windows let sunlight in. The sunlight is reddish from the surrounding superstructure, but filtered through white strips below.
Triangular windows visible through ceiling strips

The highest building at the airport, A 98.3 m (323 ft) monitoring tower, stands at the southern end of T3. The roof of T3 is red, the Chinese color for good luck. The terminal's ceilings use white strips for decoration and to indicate directions. Under the white strips, the basic color of the ceiling is orange with light to dark tones indicating where a passenger is inside the building. The roof is light orange in the center. The color deepens as the roof extends to the sides in T3E and goes the other way round in T3C.

The roof of T3 has dozens of triangular windows to let in daylight. Light angles can be adjusted to ensure adequate interior lighting. Many traditional Chinese elements will be employed in the terminal's interior decoration, including a "Menhai", a big copper vat used to store water for fighting fires in the Forbidden City, and the carvings imitating the famous Nine-Dragon Wall.

An indoor garden is constructed in the T3E waiting area, in the style of imperial gardens such as the Summer Palace. In T3C, a tunnel landscape of an underground garden has been finished with plants on each side so that passengers can appreciate them inside the mini-train.[citation needed]

Facilities

Children's playground

The T3 food-service area is called a "global kitchen," where 72 stores provide food ranging from formal dishes to fast food, from Chinese to western, and from bakery goods to ice cream. Airport officials have promised that people who buy products at the airport will find the same prices in central Beijing.

In addition to food and beverage areas, there is a 16,200 m2 (174,000 sq ft) domestic retail area, a 12,600 m2 (136,000 sq ft) duty-free-store area and a nearly 7,200 m2 (78,000 sq ft) convenience-service area, which includes banks, business centres, Internet services and more. At 45,200 m2 (487,000 sq ft), the commercial area is twice the size of Beijing's Lufthansa Shopping Center.

The terminal provides 72 aerobridges or jetways and is further complemented with remote parking bays which bring the total number of gates to 150. Terminal 3 comes with an additional runway. It increases BCIA's total capacity by 72 million passengers per year to approximately 90 million.[18]

Airbus A380

The intra-terminal people mover train in Terminal 3, which should not be confused with the Airport Express, Beijing Subway, the subway that connects Terminals 2 and 3 to the city.

The terminal has gates and a nearby runway that can handle the Airbus A380. This capability was proven when Singapore Airlines briefly offered A380 flights to Beijing in August 2008 during the Summer Olympics. Emirates airline has started its scheduled daily operation to Dubai as of 1 August 2010. Lufthansa has been using these facilities since October 2010 to handle up to five A380 connections per week. Several other airlines in the near future will operate the A380 out of this terminal, including Malaysia Airlines and British Airways.

Airlines and destinations

The airport has three terminals. Terminal 1 serves the domestic routes of Hainan Airlines and its subsidiaries (while its international routes and Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau flights operate from Terminal 2). Terminal 2 serves China Southern Airlines, China Eastern Airlines, SkyTeam members and other domestic and international flights. Terminal 3, the newest terminal, serves Air China, Star Alliance and Oneworld members, and some other domestic and international flights which do not operate from either Terminals 1 or 2.

Passenger

BCIA Terminal 3 building
Terminal 3 Air Control Tower
BCIA Moving walkway connecting T1 And T2 Terminals
Airlines Destinations Terminal
Aeroflot Moscow–Sheremetyevo 2
Aeroflot
operated by Aurora		 Seasonal: Khabarovsk 2
Air Algérie Algiers 2
Air Astana Almaty, Astana 2
Air Canada Toronto–Pearson, Vancouver 3E
Air China Aksu, Baotou, Bayannur, Beihai, Changchun, Changsha, Changzhou, Chaoyang, Chengdu, Chifeng, Chongqing, Dalian, Dandong, Daqing, Datong, Dazhou, Dunhuang, Fuyang, Fuyuan, Fuzhou, Ganzhou, Guangyuan, Guangzhou, Guilin, Guiyang, Haikou, Hailar, Hangzhou, Harbin, Hefei, Hohhot, Hotan, Huangshan, Jiamusi, Jieyang, Jingdezhen, Jinggangshan, Jiuzhaigou, Karamay, Kashgar, Korla, Kunming, Lanzhou, Lhasa, Lijiang, Liuzhou, Manzhouli, Mianyang, Mudanjiang, Nanchang, Nanjing, Nanning, Nantong, Ningbo, Ordos, Qingdao, Qiqihar, Sanya, Shanghai–Hongqiao, Shanghai–Pudong, Shenyang, Shenzhen, Taiyuan, Taizhou, Tonghua, Tongliao, Ulanhot, Urumqi, Weihai, Wenzhou, Wuhai, Wuhan, Wuxi, Xiamen, Xi'an, Xiangyang, Xilinhot, Xining, Xuzhou, Yancheng, Yangzhou, Yanji, Yantai, Yibin, Yichang, Yinchuan, Yining, Yiwu, Yuncheng, Zhangjiajie, Zhanjiang, Zhengzhou, Zhuhai, Zunyi
Seasonal: Nyingchi		 3C, 3D
Air China Addis Ababa, Athens, Auckland, Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi, Barcelona, Budapest, Busan, Chiang Mai, Chita, Colombo, Daegu, Delhi, Dubai–International, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Fukuoka, Geneva, Hakodate, Havana, Hiroshima, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Honolulu, Houston–Intercontinental, Islamabad, Jakarta–Soekarno-Hatta, Jeju, Johannesburg–O.R. Tambo, Karachi, Kuala Lumpur–International, London–Heathrow, Los Angeles, Madrid, Manila, Melbourne, Milan–Malpensa, Minsk, Montréal–Trudeau, Moscow–Sheremetyevo, Mumbai, Munich, Nagoya–Centrair, Naha, New York–JFK, Newark, Osaka–Kansai, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Phuket, Pyongyang, Rome–Fiumicino, San Francisco, São Paulo–Guarulhos, Sapporo–Chitose, Sendai, Seoul–Gimpo, Seoul–Incheon, Siem Reap, Singapore, Stockholm–Arlanda, Sydney, Taipei–Taoyuan, Tokyo–Haneda, Tokyo–Narita, Ulaanbaatar, Vancouver, Vienna, Washington–Dulles, Yangon 3E
Air China
operated by Dalian Airlines		 Dalian 3C
Air France Paris–Charles de Gaulle 2
Air Koryo Pyongyang 2
Air Leisure Charter: Aswan, Cairo, Hurghada 3E
Air Macau Macau 3E
Air Mauritius Mauritius[19] 3E
Air Seychelles Mahe (begins 27 January 2016)[20] TBA
AirAsia X Kuala Lumpur–International 2
All Nippon Airways Osaka–Kansai, Tokyo–Haneda, Tokyo–Narita 3E
American Airlines Chicago–O'Hare, Dallas/Fort Worth 3E
Asiana Airlines Busan, Cheongju, Muan, Seoul–Gimpo, Seoul–Incheon 3E
Austrian Airlines Vienna 3E
Azerbaijan Airlines Baku 2
Beijing Capital Airlines Arxan, Erenhot, Haikou, Hailar, Hangzhou, Hohhot, Jixi, Lijiang, Qingdao, Sanya, Urumqi, Xiamen 1
Beijing Capital Airlines Cheongju, Malé[21]
Charter: Copenhagen[22]		 2
British Airways London–Heathrow 3E
Cathay Pacific Hong Kong 3E
Cebu Pacific Manila 2
China Airlines Kaohsiung, Taipei–Taoyuan 3E
China Eastern Airlines Asahikawa,[23] Baoshan, Changchun, Changzhou, Chifeng, Dali, Dalian, Daqing, Diqing, Dongying, Dunhuang, Enshi, Guangzhou,[24] Haikou, Hangzhou, Hanzhong, Harbin, Hefei, Huai'an, Jeju, Jiagedaqi, Jiayuguan, Jining, Kunming, Lanzhou, Lhasa, Lianyungang, Lijiang, Linyi, Luoyang, Lüliang, Luzhou, Mangshi, Nanchang, Nanjing, Ningbo, Osaka–Kansai, Pu'er, Qianjiang, Qingdao, Saipan, Shanghai–Hongqiao, Shanghai–Pudong, Sydney, Taiyuan, Tengchong, Tongliao, Wenshan, Wenzhou, Wuhan, Wuxi, Xi'an, Xining, Xishuangbanna, Yantai, Yinchuan, Zhaotong
Seasonal: Denpasar/Bali[25]
Charter: Da Nang, Siem Reap		 2
China Southern Airlines Anshan, Beihai, Changbaishan, Changchun, Changde, Changsha, Changzhi, Chengdu, Chongqing, Dalian, Daqing, Ganzhou, Guangzhou, Guilin, Guiyang, Haikou, Hangzhou, Harbin, Heihe, Huaihua, Korla, Kunming, Mohe, Nanchong, Nanning, Nanyang, Sanya, Shanghai–Hongqiao, Shantou, Shenyang, Shenzhen, Tongren, Urumqi, Wuhan, Xi'an, Xining, Yanji, Yichun, Yinchuan, Yining, Yiwu, Zhangjiajie, Zhengzhou, Zhuhai, Zunyi 2
China Southern Airlines Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Seoul–Gimpo, Seoul–Incheon, Tashkent 2
China Southern Airlines
operated by Chongqing Airlines		 Chongqing, Diqing 2
Delta Air Lines Detroit, Seattle/Tacoma 2
Dragonair Hong Kong 3E
EgyptAir Cairo 3E
El Al Tel Aviv–Ben Gurion 3E
Emirates Dubai–International 3E
Ethiopian Airlines Addis Ababa 3E
Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi, Nagoya–Centrair 3E
EVA Air Taipei–Taoyuan 3E
Finnair Helsinki 3E
Garuda Indonesia Denpasar/Bali, Jakarta–Soekarno-Hatta 2
Grand China Air Guilin, Hailar, Harbin, Mudanjiang, Yinchuan 1
GX Airlines Nanning 1
Hainan Airlines Anqing, Baotou, Changchun, Changsha, Changzhi, Chengdu, Chongqing, Dalian, Dongying, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Guiyang, Haikou, Hangzhou, Hohhot, Jiamusi, Kunming, Lanzhou, Manzhouli, Nanchang, Nanning, Ningbo, Qiqihar, Sanya, Shanghai–Hongqiao, Shanghai–Pudong, Shenzhen, Urumqi, Weifang, Wenzhou, Wuhai, Wuhan, Xiamen, Xi'an, Xining, Yan'an, Yichang, Yulin 1
Hainan Airlines Almaty, Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi, Berlin–Tegel, Boston, Brussels, Chicago–O'Hare, Denpasar/Bali, Irkutsk, Manchester (begins 10 June 2016),[26] Moscow–Sheremetyevo, Phuket, Prague, Saint Petersburg, San Jose (CA), Seattle/Tacoma, Taipei–Taoyuan, Tel Aviv–Ben Gurion (begins 28 April 2016),[27] Tokyo–Haneda, Toronto–Pearson
Seasonal charter: Birmingham[28]		 2
Hawaiian Airlines Honolulu 3E
Hong Kong Airlines Hong Kong 2
Iran Air Tehran–Imam Khomeini 2
Iraqi Airways Baghdad, Basra 3E
Japan Airlines Tokyo–Haneda, Tokyo–Narita 3E
Jeju Air Daegu 2
Juneyao Airlines Shanghai–Hongqiao 3C
KLM Amsterdam 2
Korean Air Busan, Jeju, Seoul–Gimpo, Seoul–Incheon 2
Loong Air Hangzhou 3C
LOT Polish Airlines Warsaw–Chopin 3E
Lucky Air Kunming, Mangshi, Tengchong 1
Lufthansa Frankfurt, Munich 3E
Mahan Air Tehran–Imam Khomeini 3E
Malaysia Airlines Kuala Lumpur–International 3E
Mega Maldives Malé, Tokyo-Narita (begins 15 January 2016)[29] 2
MIAT Mongolian Airlines Ulaanbaatar1 3E
NordStar Airlines Krasnoyarsk–Yemelyanovo 2
Pakistan International Airlines Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore 2
Philippine Airlines Kalibo,[30] Manila 3E
Qatar Airways Doha 3E
Qingdao Airlines Qingdao 3C
S7 Airlines Irkutsk, Khabarovsk, Krasnoyarsk–Yemelyanovo, Novosibirsk, Ulan-Ude, Vladivostok, Yakutsk 3E
Scandinavian Airlines Copenhagen 3E
Shandong Airlines Chongqing, Fuzhou, Jinan, Qingdao, Weihai, Xiamen, Yantai, Yinchuan 3C
Shanghai Airlines Chongqing, Hangzhou, Shanghai–Hongqiao 2
Shenzhen Airlines Nanning, Quanzhou, Shenzhen, Wuxi, Xi'an, Xiangyang, Yichun 3C
Shenzhen Airlines Osaka–Kansai[31] 3E
Sichuan Airlines Chengdu, Chongqing, Haikou, Kunming, Panzhihua, Wanzhou, Xichang, Zhongwei 3C
Singapore Airlines Singapore 3E
Spring Airlines Shanghai–Hongqiao 1
SriLankan Airlines Colombo 2
Swiss International Air Lines Zürich 3E
TAAG Angola Airlines Luanda 2
Thai Airways Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi 3E
Tianjin Airlines Haikou, Kaili 1
Tibet Airlines Lhasa 3C
Turkmenistan Airlines Ashgabat 2
Turkish Airlines Istanbul–Atatürk 3E
Ukraine International Airlines Kiev–Boryspil 2
United Airlines Chicago–O'Hare, Newark, San Francisco, Washington–Dulles
Seasonal charter: Guam[32]		 3E
Ural Airlines Bangkok–Suvarnabhumi,[33] Yekaterinburg 3E
Uzbekistan Airways Tashkent 2
Vietnam Airlines Hanoi
Seasonal: Nha Trang (begins 15 January 2016)[34]		 2
XiamenAir Changsha, Fuzhou, Hailar, Hangzhou, Qingdao, Quanzhou, Shanghai–Hongqiao, Wuyishan, Xiamen, Zhoushan 2

Notes
^1 MIAT Mongolian flights make Beijing as an intermediate stop en route to and/or from Singapore; however it does not have the traffic rights to carry passengers solely between Beijing and Singapore.

Cargo

Airlines Destinations
AirBridgeCargo Airlines Moscow–Domodedovo, Moscow–Sheremetyevo, Saint Petersburg
Air China Cargo Anchorage, Atlanta, Chennai, Chicago–O'Hare, Copenhagen, Dallas/Fort Worth, Frankfurt, Los Angeles, Milan–Malpensa, New York–JFK, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Portland (OR), Shanghai–Pudong, Singapore, Vienna
Air Hong Kong Hong Kong[35]
Air Koryo Pyongyang
Cargolux Luxembourg
Cathay Pacific Cargo Hong Kong
China Southern Airlines Seoul–Incheon, Shenzhen
Etihad Crystal Cargo Abu Dhabi, Almaty[36]
FedEx Express Hangzhou, Nanjing, Seoul–Incheon, Shanghai–Pudong
Korean Air Cargo Seoul–Incheon
MASkargo Kuala Lumpur–International
SAS Cargo Group Copenhagen, Shanghai–Pudong, Stockholm–Arlanda
Singapore Airlines Cargo Singapore
Volga-Dnepr Krasnoyarsk–Yemelyanovo

Ground transportation

Beijing Subway Airport Express Line
Aboard the Airport Express train

Intra-terminal transportation

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Main article: Beijing Capital International Airport Terminal 3 People mover

Terminal 3 consists of three sub-concourses, namely Terminal 3C, 3D, and 3E. Both domestic and international travelers check in at T3C. Gates for domestic flights are in T3C and T3D (solely for domestic Air China flights), while international flights are handled in T3E. The 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) trip between T3C and T3E is shortened to 2 minutes by an automated people mover.

Inter-terminal transportation

The airport provides free inter-terminal shuttle bus between Terminals 1/2 and 3. The buses set out every 10 minutes from 6 am to 11 pm, and every 30 minutes from 11pm till 6am. Terminals 1 and 2 are connected by a lengthy corridor.

Rail

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Main article: Airport Line, Beijing Subway

Beijing Capital International Airport is served by the Airport Express Line of the Beijing Subway. The 28.1 km (17.5 mi) line runs from Terminal 3 to Terminal 2 and then to the city with stops at Sanyuanqiao and Dongzhimen. The line opened on 19 July 2008, in time for the 2008 Olympics. A one-way trip takes approximately 16–20 minutes and costs ¥25. The running hours are 6:35-23:10 for T2, 6:20-22:50 for T3 and 6:00-22:30 for Dongzhimen.[37]

Bus

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Main article: Beijing Airport Bus

The airport offers bus service to and from points throughout the city including Xidan, Beijing Railway Station, Beijing South Station, Beijing West Station, Zhongguancun, Fangzhuang and Shangdi on eleven airport bus routes. The airport buses run to each of the three terminals and cost ¥16 per ride. The airport buses accept only paper tickets that are sold at each terminal and certain bus stops in the city. The airport also offers bus service to and from neighboring cities including Tianjin, Qinhuangdao, Baoding, Langfang and Tangshan.

Taxi

Taxi service from the airport to Beijing is available. Normal taxis (not limousines) are on the meter, and a normal reasonable price to downtown Beijing is around ¥150.

Car

Toll plaza at Xiaotianzhu on the Airport Expressway, which goes to Terminals 1 and 2.
Toll plaza on the 2nd Airport Expressway and entrance to parking garage at Terminal 3.

The airport is accessible by four express tollways. Two of these run directly from northeastern Beijing to the airport. The other two connect to the airport from nearby highways. .

  • The Airport Expressway is a 20 km (12 mi) toll road that runs from the northeastern 3rd Ring Road at Sanyuanqiao directly to Terminals 1 and 2. It was built in the 1990s and has served as the primary road connection to the city.
  • The 2nd Airport Expressway, opened in 2008, is a 15.6 km (9.7 mi) toll road that runs east from Yaojiayuan Lu at the eastern 5th Ring Road and then north to Terminal 3.
  • The Northern Airport Line, opened in 2006, is an 11.3 km (7.0 mi) toll road that runs east from the Jingcheng Expressway to Terminals 1 and 2.
  • The Southern Airport Line, opened in 2008, is a toll road that runs parallel and to the south of the Northern Airport Line from the Jingcheng Expressway to the eastern Sixth Ring Road at the Litian Bridge. This highway crosses the Airport Expressway and 2nd Airport Expressway, and enables drivers on the former to reach Terminal 3 and the latter to head to Terminals 1 and 2.

In addition to the expressways, there is a tree-lined, two-lane road that runs just south of the Airport Expressway. This Old Airport Road was the primary access route to the airport prior to the expressway's opening and remains the only untolled road to the airport.

Parking

The airport's parking garage offers 24-hour parking service.

Accolades

Rankings
Traffic Rank Year
List of airports by passenger traffic 2 2014
List of airports by traffic movements 5 2014
List of airports by cargo traffic 12 2014

Statistics

Traffic by calendar year
Passengers Change from previous year Movements Cargo
(tons)
2007[40] 53,611,747 399,209 1,416,211.3
2008[40] 55,938,136 Increase04.3% 429,646 1,367,710.3
2009[41] 65,375,095 Increase016.9% 487,918 1,475,656.8
2010[42] 73,948,114 Increase013.1% 517,585 1,551,471.6
2011[43] 78,674,513 Increase06.4% 533,166 1,640,231.8
2012[3] 81,929,359 Increase04.1% 557,167 1,787,027
2013[44] 83,712,355 Increase02.2% 567,759 1,843,681
2014[45] 86,128,313 Increase02.9% 581,952 1,848,251.5

Other facilities

Beijing Capital Airlines has its headquarters in the Capital Airlines Building (首都航空大厦 Shǒudū Hángkōng Dàshà) at the airport.[46][47]

Sister airports

Photo gallery

  • Entrance to Terminal 2

  • The departure hall of Terminal 2

  • Terminal 2 International Departure Waiting Hall

  • Terminal 2 Arrival Luggage Pick Up Hall

  • Airport terminal architecture in Terminal 2 (April 2006 image)

  • Terminal 3 exterior

  • entrance into the main hall of Terminal 3

  • Departure lounge in Terminal 3

  • Terminal 3

  • Curbside of departure level at Terminal 3

  • Terminal 3 of Capital Airport

  • Display with clocks set to time zones around the world

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ The code BJS is for all commercial airports in Beijing metro area. Currently, it includes this airport and Beijing Nanyuan Airport, a small domestic airport.

References

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