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- IATA Code
- PEK
- ICAO Code
- ZBAA
- Corporate Address
- Beijing Capital International Airport Company Limited, Capital Airport, Beijing, China
- Website
- http://www.en.bcia.com.cn
- City
- Beijing
- Country
- China
- Other airports serving Beijing
- Beijing Daxing International Airport
Beijing Nanyuan Airport - Runways
- 3200m x 50m
3800m x 60m
3962m x 60m - Airlines currently operating to this airport with scheduled services
- Aeroflot
AHK
Air Algerie
Air Astana
Air Canada
Air China
Air France
Air Koryo
Air Macau
AirAsia X
AirBridgeCargo
All Nippon Airways
American Airlines
Asiana Airlines
Austrian Airlines
Azerbaijan Airlines AZAL
Beijing Capital Airlines
British Airways
Cargolux Airlines International
Cathay Pacific
Cebu Pacific Air
China Airlines
China Eastern Airlines
China Southern Airlines
Chongqing Airlines
Delta Air Lines
Dragonair
EgyptAir
El Al
Emirates
Ethiopian Airlines
Etihad Airways
EVA Air
Finnair
Garuda Indonesia
Grand China Air
Hainan Airlines
Hong Kong Airlines
Hong Kong Express
Iran Air
Japan Airlines
Jetstar Airways
Juneyao Airlines
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
Korean Air
LOT - Polish Airlines
Lucky Air
Lufthansa
Malaysia Airlines
Mega Maldives Airlines
MIAT Mongolian Airlines
Pakistan International Airlines
Philippine Airlines
Qatar Airways
S7 Airlines
SAS
Shandong Airlines
Shanghai Airlines
Shenzhen Airlines
Sichuan Airlines
Singapore Airlines
South African Airways
SriLankan Airlines
SWISS
TAAG
Thai Airways
Tianjin Airlines
Transaero Airlines
Turkish Airlines
Turkmenistan Airlines
United Airlines
Ural Airlines
Uzbekistan Airways
Vietnam Airlines
Vladivostok Air
Xiamen Airlines
Yakutia
Yangtze River Express - Airlines currently operating to this airport via codeshare
- Air Mauritius
Air New Zealand
airberlin
Brussels Airlines
Qantas Airways
Rossiya - Russian Airlines
TAM Airlines
TAP Portugal
US Airways
Virgin Atlantic Airways
Virgin Australia
Beijing Capital International Airport is the main international airport of the Chinese capital and one of the busiest airports in the world. Hosting domestic, regional and international passenger and cargo traffic for over 50 airlines, Beijing Capital is a hub for airlines including Air China, China Southern Airlines and Hainan Airlines. A second airport for the city is under development, to relieve expected capacity problems in the capital later this decade.
Location of Beijing Capital International Airport, China
Ground Handlers servicing Beijing Capital International Airport
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Beijing Capital International Airport pax up 3% in Apr-2013
Lufthansa makes changes to its long-haul winter 2013/2014 schedule
Air China to increase Beijing-Madrid Barajas frequency
Air China to increase Beijing-Moscow Sheremetyevo frequency
Lufthansa adjusts equipment on winter 2013 long-haul operations
Azerbaijan Airlines temporarily suspends Baku-Beijing service
ANA to return 787s to service from 01-Jun-2013; introduce new 787 routes for five 787 destinations
Air Astana to increase Astana-Beijing frequency
Air China launches Beijing-Geneva service
Air China launches first nonstop Beijing-Geneva service
Capital Airports Holding and Geneva Airport sign sister airport agreement
China Eastern Airlines to change operational aircraft on services from Lanzhou to Beijing, Chengdu
Air China temporarily reduces operations with North Korea
LOT to increase Warsaw-Beijing frequency to six weekly ASAP, resume 787 to Beijing in Sep-2013
Air China to reduce Beijing-Pyongyang frequency
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Jetstar misses another opportunity in Singapore as it reduces focus on China market
This is the second report in a three-part series on Jetstar’s Singapore-based operations, which includes Jetstar Asia, Jetstar Airways and Valuair. The first report analysed the booming Singapore-Indonesia market, where Jetstar is now looking to expand after several years of flat capacity.
This report looks at Jetstar’s position in the Singapore-China market while the third part will look at the overall outlook for Jetstar Asia. Jetstar has significantly cut back in the China market since the end of 2011, reversing a strategy from 2010 and 2011 that focused on using its Singapore hub to pursue rapid growth throughout mainland China. This strategy included using Jetstar Asia’s A320 fleet to operate medium-haul flights to southern China while using Jetstar Airways’ A330 fleet to access markets in northern China that are beyond narrowbody range from Singapore.
Harbin Airport seeks a hub role for Russia and Siberia, but home airlines are less interested
Siberia-China seat capacity grew 202% between 2003 and 2012 and China's northern City of Harbin is now jockeying to become a network hub for Siberia. The airport accounts for 15% of Siberia-China capacity, far less than the largest Chinese airport, Beijing, 1000km to its southeast. Harbin offers geographical advantages to Siberian cities in the far east while Beijing can serve those with some circuitry as well as western Siberian cities. Urumqi in China's far west could also be a hub for Siberia, supporting China Southern's development of Urumqi as a West Asia/CIS hub.
The motivation is simple. Siberia's 40 million population has proven an increasingly important trade relationship for China – so much so that in the economic turmoil of 2009, Siberia was the only part of Russia to maintain a positive investment trend. China is tapping Siberia for resources ranging from wood to oil and, increasingly, hydroelectricity from Siberia's numerous rivers. Russia's largest private energy company forecasts Siberia's GDP could triple in 15 years.
Delta Air Lines improves China position with better slots from partners China Eastern & Southern
Slots at Chinese airports cannot be openly swapped the way they can at other airports – such as at London Heathrow where slot trading over the past year has occurred between Jet Airways and Etihad, Cathay Pacific and Air New Zealand, Qantas and British Airways, Delta and unnamed partners and perhaps soon Aer Lingus and British Airways. This has become problematic for carriers like Delta, which are given late arrival times and early departures that stymie critical connecting traffic.
But Delta in recent months has been able to leverage its partnerships with fellow SkyTeam carriers China Eastern and China Southern to adjust their slot portfolio to maximise connections, which benefit both parties. Delta has been able to move its Detroit-Beijing/Shanghai Pudong services to arrive in the afternoon and depart in the evening, key times for foreign long-haul carriers. While this improves Delta's position in China – the smallest of the three US carriers present – its ability to tap into new cities appears limited owing to fleet limitations.
Air China turns attention to international markets, but its profits are regional and domestic
Air China's hub at Beijing Capital is effectively at capacity for movements between 07:00 and midnight. Consequently the carrier is increasingly using its existing slots to launch international services that support its positioning as China's international flag airline; this also allows Air China to grow revenue, which in 2012 surpassed RMB100 billion (USD16 billion) for the first time. But these services, aside from Taiwan, offer only lower yields and faint glimmers of profitability – unlike the domestic heartland operations.
With Air China's domestic RPKs growing only 0.5% in 2012, the carrier is seeking to assure the market it has domestic growth opportunities left by expanding its hubs at Chengdu and Shanghai, although the latter is also constrained by slots. The Air China Group also has a portfolio of domestic carriers, including Shenzhen Airlines (the country's sixth largest), Shandong Airlines and Tibet Airlines. They account for about a third of the group's domestic revenue and most traffic growth.
China Southern's A380 operation is still struggling as most remain restricted to domestic routes
This is the second part of a report looking at China Southern's A380 operation. While the carrier waits for all interested parties to sign off on its Beijing-Paris joint operation with rival Air China, it still has three A380s currently on domestic routes for which it needs to find suitable long-haul services.
In addition to a daily Guangzhou-Los Angeles return service that commenced in Oct-2012, China Southern has double daily Guangzhou-Beijing and daily Guangzhou-Shanghai Pudong services. China Southern has scale in those markets, unlike its brief A380 service between Hong Kong and Beijing, where losses ultimately saw China Southern replace the daily A380 with a daily A321 flight.
Long-haul routes to Frankfurt and New York would be most viable for China Southern's A380, but would probably require cooperation with Air China if to be served out of the preferred hub of Beijing. China Southern has casually floated the idea of A380 services to London and Sydney, but deployment there would face spool-up challenges.
SkyTeam seeks clarity on proposed China Southern-Air China joint A380 operation
As China Southern nears 18 months since taking delivery of its first A380, the carrier has yet to receive authority to operate its full fleet on viable services, creating a quiet debacle for Chinese aviation. Losses from the mere three A380s China Southern had in 1H2012 amounted to a figure the carrier would quantify only as less than RMB100 million (USD16 million).
Full year 2012 losses for the A380 fleet, now at four aircraft, are reported to be between RMB150-200 million (USD24-32 million). The high sums come despite Chinese carriers being traditionally stronger in the second half as well as China Southern launching the A380 between Guangzhou and Los Angeles in Oct-2012.
Plans announced in Aug-2012 for China Southern to cooperate with Air China by deploying the A380 between Beijing and Paris were dragged out by Air China and China Southern working through the details and finally the SkyTeam alliance, of which China Southern is a member, reportedly raising concerns about the cooperation. Although the concerns are unspecified, China Southern operates a joint venture with SkyTeam members Air France and KLM, suggesting the A380 operation would be conducted outside of that venture. As China Southern prepares to take its fifth and final A380 – adding further financial burdens – the carrier is being tested between profitability, national allegiance and international cooperation.
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