New aerial photos reveal just how much progress has been made on Beijing’s epic new international airport, as the photos show, the steel structure of the terminals was officially finished on Friday and it looks pretty cool!
Beijing Daxing International Airport (as it has come to be called) is slated to open in 2019. With five wings, four runways and its very own bullet train station, this place is not only going to be big but it will be the largest aviation hub in the world.
It is expected that the airport will handle 72 million passengers and 2 million tons of cargo each year by 2025. Last year, Beijing Capital International Airport handled 90 million passengers. The new airport will also see 620,000 flights per year.
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