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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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So Heathrow is not the biggest airport in the world?
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oh my oh my :D going to arrive there on saturday :D
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i love my hometown
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I have been to Beijing airport :/ pretty nice still not perfect because there isn't anything in this world that's perfect
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60 million a year by 2015, hm last time i checked it handled 86+ million passengers!
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Beijing Capital International Airport passenger throughput of 89000000 passengers in 2014, the airport is a serious overload operation.THIS IS WHY WE NEED THE BIGGEST AIRPORT!
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so f*cking proud to be chinese QAQ
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China is by no means a pleasant country and most chinese people are uncivilized and annoying, especially northern chinese with prominent China accent. But Beijing airport is nice...
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what pixel is it
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You can build amazing things with slavery (Great wall of China, The Great Pyramids of Giza)
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People who said Beijing is the biggest airport ur wrong the biggest airport in the world is King Khalid in Riyadh by area
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@bushangels yeah the will be. the new airport is Daxing airport
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See. you said busiest, not biggest. Theres a difference. Biggest = size, of terminal space, of land, etc. The term itself has absolutely nothing to do with passenger flow.
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You are an idiot! What in your mind constitutes a biggest airport? The area? The number of terminals? Atlanta airport is the biggest (busiest) in terms of both, passenger flow and airplane traffic. As far as the area is concerned, who cares? In any case Beijing is NOT the biggest airport in ANY of these criteria.
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Its not the biggest. It just handles the most people... though Beijing is 2nd and probably will soon surpass.
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TERMINAL BUILDING! not the whole airport, don't you listen to the video? this terminal building was built before Dubai T3 being built, so for a single terminal building, this one is the biggest at the time this documentary was made, so who is the ignorant one now? BTW beijing is the 2nd busiest airport in the world right now
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You are just showing your ignorance. No one considers single terminals as separate entities from the rest of the airport. In any case, the largest terminal building in the world is in Dubai, not Beijing. Beijing is neither the biggest in passenger and airplane traffic (Atlanta is), nor is it biggest in area (King Fahd in S. Arabia is).
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single terminal building, just like dubai terminal 3, it's the biggest single terminal building in the world, atlanta airport terminal is divided into small section, so it's not the biggest terminal in the world
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there are 3 airport in Beijing, this is the new one, which airport did you go to? even the oldest terminal is still better than LAX i must say
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Maybe you were in the older terminals?