World's Biggest Airport - Beijing International (2of 5)

Beijing Capital International Airport, (simplified Chinese: 北京首都国际机场; traditional Chinese: 北京首都國際機場; pinyin: Běijīng Shǒudū Guójì Jīchǎng) (IATA: PEK, ICAO: ZBAA) is the main international airport that serves the capital city of Beijing, People's Republic of China. The IATA Airport Code is PEK, reflecting Beijing's former Romanization Peking. The code BJS is also frequently used, reflecting the current pinyin spelling of Beijing and including all airports in the Beijing metropolitan area; currently, Beijing Capital (PEK) is the only civil aviation airport that falls under BJS.

The airport is located 20 km to the northeast of Beijing city center. Although many consider it to lie in Shunyi District, it is, in fact, an exclave of Chaoyang District, Beijing.

The airport is a primary hub of operations for Air China, which flies to around 120 destinations (excluding cargo). It is also a hub for Hainan Airlines and China Southern Airlines. The airport expansion is largely funded by 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.[citation needed]

Beijing Capital is today the busiest airport in the People's Republic of China, having registered double-digit growth annually since the SARS crisis of 2003. In 2004, it became the busiest airport in Asia by aircraft movements, overtaking Tokyo International Airport (Haneda). In terms of passengers, Beijing was the second-busiest airport in Asia after Tokyo International Airport (Haneda) and ninth-busiest worldwide in 2006. In 2007, it served 53,736,923 passengers and had 399,986 aircraft movements.[1] It was the 23rd busiest airport in terms of traffic movements. It is also the 20th busiest airport in terms of cargo traffic, having moved 1,028,908 million tonnes of cargo in 2006. It operates around 1100 flights a day, and is expected to rise to 1500-1600 at the Olympics in 2008. [2]

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[aviomaster]

3 times bigger than Hong Kong airport ... I was there and it is huge ...

what the holy smokes ...

[kshin882002]

@cuteupd you so funny... you old enough to wear underwear instead of diapers yet?

[TelpPov]

@daoba992003 well, tibet controls all the fresh water source of every major river in China, and the little countries below China. Tibet has rich raw minerals and China is building another dam there. China also need Tibet as buffer against India so they won't be able to attack Yunan and Sichuan right at your door step.

[daoba992003]

I am a chinese citizen and I am totally fine with poor regions like taiwan and tibet free from China's control , don't follow us , yuk!

[grave2016]

@TheVolure

Free Tibet!

[TheVolure]

I don't read comments i delete without reading it like your face pixelated and ugly !!

[TheVolure]

Hawaii wants independence do they get it ? no! U.S.A want it Hawaii never had a choice U.S.A wanted it for base in the Pacific! so shut the fuck up with Tibet and Taiwan is China control!

[TheVolure]

Shut the fuck up you don't need Puerto Rico getting freedom with U.S.A so we don't need to give it up also! Asshole !

[grave2016]

free tibet!

[guest062888]

@n1234ick Yeah, good point...Certain megaprojects take gov funding, LAX should be expanded but pvt business doesn't want to spend their profits on it.

[n1234ick]

@guest062888 yeh but they dont build it. all this privitisation means there will never be really bug projects the govt wont invest in big projects.

[guest062888]

@n1234ick No need I suppose, I mean westerners designed this