Talk:Beijing Daxing International Airport

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Pronunciation guide "Daxing" is pronounced like dah-shing, not like dak-sing, as you may expect.

The airport is opened too recently (2019) and don't have enough shopping options to fill out an entire "Buy" section. Compare to the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, which is more than 80 years old and has enough shopping options to fill out an entire "Buy" section. Therefore, redirect the Beijing Daxing article to Beijing. --Soumya-8974 (he) (talk • contribs) 07:28, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

• Keep - "Beijing Daxing opened in Sep 2019, and is the largest in the world by area. It has been designed to be the next international hub of the Beijing area and the country in general, with the goal of being able to serve up to 100 million passengers annually." --ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 10:27, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

  It is designed to be the next international hub of Greater Beijing. However, most of its flights are domestic. --Soumya-8974 (he) (talk • contribs) 11:51, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

  The number of passengers in PKX was 3,138,000, far lower than the "de facto "line" somewhere around 20-30 million pax p.a. (pre-plague, obviously)". --Soumya-8974 (he) (talk • contribs) 11:54, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

The place opened three months before the pandemic started in China, of course passenger numbers are nowhere near where they should be. So let's wait a few years to see whether the numbers grow as predicted. If they don't, we can revisit.--ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 11:57, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

Redirecting this page to Beijing will not lose the original airport page forever. It will be archived in page history. If the passenger number p.a. does increase to 20 million, then we can restore the article without prejudice. --Soumya-8974 (he) (talk • contribs) 12:02, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

• strong keep if this airport doesn't get an article, I'm not sure which airport would... Hobbitschuster (talk) 11:29, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

• Absolutely keep. w:List of busiest airports by passenger traffic Pashley (talk) 12:01, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

  I am requesting to delete the Beijing Daxing Airport, not he Beijing Capital Airport. --Soumya-8974 (he) (talk • contribs) 12:04, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

• Keep per others. It is developing. AnotherEditor144 (talk) 12:20, 28 March 2021 (UTC)
• Keep. If that airport doesn't merit an article yet, the information in it should be merged to Beijing#By plane, with the term being turned into a redirect. We don't delete articles about real places. Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:10, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

• Why would it not merit its own article? It's one of the top 10 busiest airports in the world. Hobbitschuster (talk) 21:49, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

• Is it? Soumya-8974 gave other figures above. Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:00, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

It's not listed at w:List of busiest airports by passenger traffic. I think some of the participants in this discussion may be confusing it with Beijing Capital International Airport. —Granger (talk · contribs) 18:47, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

That list is based on outdated figures, see here instead. The pandemic has thrown a wrench into a lot of airport statistics as in a "normal year" those lists would long have been resorted according to 2020 figures, but the community is hesitant to use those numbers as they got "asterisk" written all over it... Hobbitschuster (talk) 19:36, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

• Speedy keep C'mon, if Innamincka a town with 15 or 44 people is a well written article, I'm not sure what's wrong with this. SHB2000 (talk) 06:44, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

• Comment I don't disagree with keeping the article, but we do have different criteria for airport articles than for destination articles. We will never have articles for small airports that get little traffic. Ikan Kekek (talk) 06:59, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

This is the 10th most busiest airport in the world. SHB2000 (talk) 07:04, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

• Keep. There is reason to believe the airport will be busy when travelling resumes. The article does little harm in the meantime. If the airport does not live up to expectations we can redirect it when we know. The risk of losing contributions is less that way, and less work for us. –LPfi (talk) 09:16, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

• I think there would even be value to keep this if after the pandemic it turns into gargantuan empty halls with nary a flight, but then we can cross that bridge when we get to it... Hobbitschuster (talk) 12:26, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

• Keep. It is slated to complement Capital as a major international airport, and there's good reason to believe it will become a major hub once the pandemic ends. The dog2 (talk) 19:08, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
• Keep - the airport has a huge capacity, is planned to replace or complement Beijing Capital airport which is the second busiest in the world, and almost certainly would be considerably busier now, a year and a half after its opening, wouldn't it be for the pandemic (according to the Wikipedia article airlines were planning to move operations from Capital or start new flights to Daxing in early or mid 2020) Ypsilon (talk) 19:28, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

I think the plan is for Star Alliance to stay at Capital, while OneWorld and Skyteam will move to Daxing. The dog2 (talk) 20:35, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

• Outcome: kept.--ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 10:16, 11 April 2021 (UTC)