Shanghai air traffic beats Beijing
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Shanghai’s two airports handled more passenger traffic than Beijing in the first six months of the year.
According to the latest data from the operators of Beijing Capital International Airport, the airport recorded 41.57 million passengers in first half of 2014.
But the East China Regional Administration of the CAAC has confirmed that Shanghai’s Pudong and Hongqiao airports handled 24.47m and 18.74m passengers respectively in the same period, for a total of 43.17m – 4% more than Beijing.
Shanghai’s two airports also handled 315,187 flights in first half of the year, compared to Beijing Capital’s 283,960.
Beijing Capital is currently the busiest airport in Asia and the second busiest in the world, in terms of passenger traffic. But expansion projects at both Pudong and Honqiao are expected to boost Shanghai’s airport capacity to 120m passengers per year by 2020. By this time,
Beijing is also expected to have launched a new second airport.
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