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China is planning to build the worlds busiest airport, by the number of passengers.
It would replace Beijing Capital International Airport as the main airport of Beijing and the largest airport in China. Beijing Capital International Airport had 78 million passengers in 2011, that placed it second the world.
The airport is to be built in Daxing, a rural area 46 km south of Tiananmen Square, Beijing's political center.
The airport is planned to be able to handle 120 to 200 million passengers per year, which would make it the world's busiest airport by passenger traffic, surpassing Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
It would be larger by New York JFK and London Heathrow together.
Construction works for the new airport is planned to begin in late 2012, and the planned opening date for the new airport is October of 2017.
The airport will cover an area of 2,680 hectares, but the airport will not be bigger than the airport King Fahd International Airport in Damman, Saudi Arabia, that cover an area of 780 square kilometers.
A majority of the passengers will fly on domestic flights in China. A new high speed rail service is planned which will connect the airport to central Beijing with a journey time of 30 minutes.
Source: Wikipedia / Daily Mail / China Daily
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