The airport was officially put into operation on September 25, 2019.
The construction difficulty of Beijing Daxing International Airport is rare in the world. Its terminal building is the world's largest earthquake-absorbing and isolation building, and the world's largest single concrete slab is constructed. According to preliminary statistics, Daxing Airport has created more than 40 international and domestic firsts, 103 technology patents, 65 new construction methods, and a localization rate of more than 98%. There are thousands of construction units, with more than 50,000 people working at the same time during the peak period of construction. The whole process has maintained "safe production and zero accidents" and fully achieved the goal of clean engineering.
The Beijing Daxing International Airport terminal is the first in the world to have high-speed rail running underneath it. The double-decker departure lane is the first of its kind in the world, effectively ensuring the efficiency of passengers entering and exiting the airport. The airport runway adopts an "omnidirectional" layout for the first time in China, and uses the world's leading navigation technology in many aspects such as aircraft ground guidance and low-visibility conditions operations to ensure operational efficiency and quality. The airport is the first global hub airport to implement 100% new energy for general-purpose vehicles on-site, making it the airport with the highest utilization rate of renewable energy in China. Extended information
Daxing International Airport and Capital Airport have formed a "one city, two airports" pattern. In the future, Beijing's air passenger throughput will exceed 250 million, driving the flow of people, logistics, capital flow, information flow and other production factors. Efficient gathering activates the 150-square-kilometer airport economic zone to serve the construction of Beijing and Xiongan New Area and provide new impetus for the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.
After Daxing International Airport is put into operation, it can provide passenger flow for Beijing urban area, Xiongan New Area, Hebei's Beisan County, Langfang, Bazhou and other areas surrounding Beijing, as well as Tianjin's Wuqing, Baodi and other areas. Providing more convenient and faster options for cargo logistics will have a profound impact on the civil aviation pattern of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, and the airports in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei will re-divide their labor.