Beijing’s newest mega-airport, Daxing International, opened this past October. Beijing has made it known that they plan to have 70-million passengers by 2025. It is expected to eventually be the world’s biggest and greatest airport. However, there has not been a lot of real people who have shot videos about Daxing. I wanted to do a fair and balanced presentation of what the New Daxing Airport is doing right and what can be improved on. So I made a list of both the positive and the negative things about flying out of Daxing. The one constant problem that Daxing is going to have is its location. It is a 1-hour drive from downtown Beijing. Most of the 70 plus airlines at Beijing’s Capital Airport are staying put for the time being, and not moving their operations to Daxing. The information presented has factored in the “30-minute” bullet train for “10 CNY”. However, according to Baidu as of December 2019, it still takes 44 minutes to travel to the 3rd outer southern ring of Beijing on the bullet train, and the second issue is that it still does not open to till 6am. This is still a huge problem when the airlines will deny you boarding for not being checked-in with your baggage 60-80 minutes in advance and expect you to be at the airport 120 minutes before your flight. The other thing to remember is that Beijing is a huge city with most of the attractions for non-Chinese are either downtown or on the northeast side of the city. It still takes over an hour to travel to the Caoqiao station (bullet train) from many areas of Beijing due to its distant southern location within the city.
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