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Beijing Capital International Airport

The Current Beijing Capital International Airport

Beijing is served by international carriers such as Northwest, United, Canadian Airlines, Lufthansa, SAS, Dragon Air, Japan Airlines, ANA, British Airways, Malaysian Air, Austrian Airlines, Air France, Alitalia, Korean Air, Pakistan Airlines, Singapore Airlines, Thai International, Air China, China Southern, and China Northern, etc.

Valuable information about Beijing Capital International Airport for the New Comers

Before your landing, you can request stewards to provide the following documents for filling in order not to loose time in the airport:

                China Entry Card                               China Health and Quarantine Declaration Form Entry        Chinese Customs Declaration form

To fill-in these forms, you will need the information available on your passport and your flight ticket.

When you leave the aircraft, please follow the sign : "Baggage Claim".

Before reaching the baggage claim area, you will have to go through the Health and Quarantine Control and the immigration control. You need to choose the queue for "Foreigners" if you don't have a Chinese passport.

Health and Quarantine Control

After passing the Health and Quarantine Control, you reach the Immigration Control. 

This is the main time consuming procedure if there are several aircrafts arriving at the same time. Immigration Control

You can claim your registered luggage at the lower floor after the Immigration Control. There is an information panel with the list of flight numbers and their corresponding claim area number. Free baggage carts are available at the baggage claim areas.   Baggage Claim

Customs Control

Once you have collected your registered baggage, you can go through the Customs Control. You need to submit the Goods Declaration Form. 

There are two channels, red and green, in China customs. Take the red one if you have something to declare, otherwise the green one.  If you take the red channel the customs officer will check to see whether you have to pay duty, deposit the items at Customs, or allow you to take them into China. If you take things such as computers, cameras, video cameras, gold and silver, printed or recorded materials, or anything more than you need during your travel in China, you have to fill in the "Customs Luggage Declaration Form". Similarly, if you are planning to leave any sort of significant item behind, you should also fill out the form. A copy of the form must be retained by the traveler and be submitted to Customs when leaving the country. All the items declared on the form must be brought out of China or else import duty will be charged on them.

Visitors are allowed to carry into China a limited quantity of duty-free goods including:

Prohibited imports include: fresh fruit, arms, ammunition and explosives, printed matter, films or tapes "detrimental to China", narcotic drugs, animals and plants.

Just after the Customs Control, you are arriving in the public area of the Beijing Capital International Airport. And it is where our driver will wait for you with the sign board:

Like this, you can save your precious time and cost at the arrival, avoiding the long queue (up to 45 minutes in case of rush hours) for taking an official Taxi with taxi-meter or suffering from dodgy taxi operators who will attempt to lure you or even more.

The Future Beijing Capital International Airport 

Beijing Capital International Airport's massive expansion program went into full swing on Aug.10, 2004.  Covering an area of 1,480 hectares, the expansion project includes the construction of a new runway, a new terminal building, a cargo zone and some auxiliary projects.  When the project is to be completed at the end of 2007, the enlarged airport will be able to accommodate 60 million passengers and 1.8 million tons a year.

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