China to build world’s biggest airport
12 September 2011Beijing has started construction on a new mega-airport that will be roughly the size of Bermuda and have nine runways.
When Beijing Daxing International airport opens in 2015, the Chinese capital will become the world’s busiest aviation hub, handling around 370,000 passengers a day.
It is only three years since the opening of Terminal 3 at Beijing Capital Airport, a sweeping structure designed by Sir Norman Foster that is far bigger than all of Heathrow’s five terminals combined.
But an enormous boom in China’s aviation industry has already left the capital’s existing facilities stretched to breaking point.
source: Telegraph.co.uk
