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Beijing Capital International Airport

Beijing

  • IATAPEK
  • ICAOZBAA
707 million Passengers a year (2025)
Serves
Beijing
Operator
Beijing Capital International Airport Company Limited
Owner
Not recorded
Opened
1 March 1958
Elevation
116 ft (35 m)
Runways
3 (longest 3,810 m)
Airlines based here
Air China, Hainan Airlines, SF Airlines
Website
Not recorded

About the airport

Beijing Capital International Airport (IATA: PEK, ICAO: ZBAA) is the busier of the two international airports serving Beijing, the capital city of China (the other one being Beijing Daxing International Airport). The airport is located 32 km (20 mi) northeast of downtown Beijing, in an exclave of Chaoyang and the surroundings of that exclave in suburban Shunyi. The airport is owned and operated by the Beijing Capital International Airport Company Limited, a state-controlled company. The airport's IATA Airport code, PEK, is based on the city's former romanized name, Peking. The facility covers an area of 1,480 hectares (3,657 acres) of airport property. It was opened in 1958.

This summary is adapted from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Licence. Passenger and runway figures come from the same source and can lag the latest annual totals, so check the figures the operator publishes for the current total.

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