The Beijing Daxing International Airport will open by late 2017, and will handle 130 million passengers in a year, which is 23 million more than London’s Heathrow and New York’s JFK airports combined.
NACO, a Dutch airport consulting firm, has won the competition to design the masterplan for the project in Beijing. Design of the airport has already been unveiled. The mega airport will feature eight commercial runways with an emphasis on public transportation. The design of the runways will reduce the distance and lessen the time taken by passengers for travelling to and from the gates. The runways are expected to span 55 square kilometres.
An integrated ‘ground transportation hub’ will also be built at the airport that will take passengers onto a high-speed rail link to Beijing in less than 30 minutes, or into the city’s metro network for a slower but more direct route.
Other design firms are currently competing to design the new terminal building at the airport.
