China Eastern Airlines will increase its flights from three times a week to a daily frequency this winter, just as Air China begins a four times weekly service from the Chinese city in November.
WeChat has launched a new service that enables overseas tourists to get a digital refund tax as the latest application of financial technology in various sectors.
During winter and spring, a total of 570,000 passenger trips are expected to be made via 15 overseas flight routes at Beijing Daxing International Airport.
The airport, which has four runways, parking spaces for 150 airplanes and a 700,000-square-meter terminal, is expected to handle 45 million passengers by 2021 and 72 million by 2025.
Hong Kong Airport and Shanghai Pudong Airport are best internationally connected airports in China according to OAG’s Megahubs Index.
The airspace under the jurisdiction of Beijing's aviation authorities was doubled to 34,500 square kilometers. By 2021, Daxing airport is expected to have 2,900 flights per day.
Asia is home to 18 of the Top 50 Global and 11 of the Top 25 LCC Megahubs, ranking ninth globally, Singapore Changi Airport is Asia Pacific’s most internationally connected airport for the second straight year.
Within two decades, annual passenger traffic in China’s skies will reach 1.6 billion, more than the country’s population today.
