PLANS FOR BEIJING CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT’S FOURTH RUNWAY BEING KICKED DOWN THE ROAD
July 1st, 2017
Nearly two years since Beijing Capital International Airport (BCIA) in September 2015 announced plans to build a fourth runway and a new air control centre by 2017 and inaugurate both in 2018, these projects are still not being materialized.
On January 17, the Beijing Municipal People's Congress Standing Committee deputy director Wu Jianguo, for his part, revealed that the fourth runway is “brewing”, without however mentioning any timeline.
A fourth runway would make BCIA China’s first 4-runway airport – assuming it is built before the city’s new ...
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