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[wjfox]

World's biggest airport planned

Beijing set to beat London and Atlanta as world's busiest aviation hub with a new airport the size of Bermuda

By CNNGo staff 13 September, 2011

Read more -- http://www.cnngo.com...259?hpt=hp_bn10

[Time_Traveller]

Wow thats a big airport for a lot of people.

[Nick1984]

http://www.cnngo.com...ve-years-612576

Are they just building to prop up growth, or are they realistically going to become a developed nation in the future?

[truthiness]

I'd like to see the airport chart for that... 9 runways?? I wonder how many they'll be using simultaneously... Dallas is the airport with the most runways (that I know of), and that has 7. Atlanta has 5. Detroit (where I operate out of) has 6. New York's JFK only has 4 (and that's a relentless quagmire). Dallas and Atlanta both sometimes use 5 of theirs simultaneously, and those two are pretty damn chaotic to fly in and out of. Nine sounds like it'd be a mess. If I were a betting man, I'd put money that a runway incursion (where two aircraft are on the same runway on a collision course) will occur there on average once a week that first year.

[alonzo-ny]

I doubt it would be busier than any European or American airport for some years. If you look at any of those videos that show air travel over 24 hours you can see that a vast majority of flights are in Europe or the US. I think air travel would need to grow by quite a bit in china for it to compete.