TIL Desk/World/Beijing/ Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday announced the official opening of the country”s new $11 billion mega airport, massive enough to contain 98 football fields. The Daxing International Airport here was formally opened by President Xi on Wednesday morning.
The airport, said to be the world”s largest terminal in a single building, spans 700,000 square metres. Beijing”s existing airport is the world”s second busiest behind Atlanta, according to the Airport Council. But Chinese officials said that a new airport was needed to take the pressure off the overcrowded Beijing Capital International Airport.
According to reports, seven domestic airlines were begin operations out of the new airport on Wednesday. Airline operators China Southern Airlines and China Eastern Airlines will lead the first flights out of Daxing at 3.45 p.m. local time.
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