Beijing airport gets really busy

Beijing, October 07: The Beijing Capital International Airport here has seen a record number of passengers during the week-long National Day holiday, Xinhua reported.

The airport handled 1.35 million passengers between Sep 30 and Oct 5, an airport official said Thursday.

The travel peak fell Oct 1 or the start of the holiday, when the airport handled 258,000 travellers.

During the period, the airport handled 8,739 flights, an average of 1,456.5 flights daily and an increase of 3.92 percent compared with the same period last year.

——IANS