Beijing airport handles 100 million passenger trips in 2019

Beijing Capital International Airport remained the top of all Chinese airports in terms of passenger throughput, handling more than 100 million passenger trips in 2019, according to the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC).

Its 2019 annual air passenger throughput dropped 1 percent from 2018, as the Chinese capital embraced the operation of its second airport of Beijing Daxing International Airport on Sept. 25, 2019.

Following the Beijing Capital International Airport, Shanghai Pudong International Airport and Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport recorded around 76.15 million and 73.38 million passenger trips in 2019, respectively.