(Yicai Global) Jan. 17 -- Daxing International Airport in south Beijing resumed international air services today after a nearly three-year suspension due to the outbreak of Covid-19.

Four international flight routes are the first batch of services to be resumed, Daxing International Airport said on its WeChat account. All international flights were transferred to the Beijing Capital International Airport in March 2020 as part of the capital city’s Covid control measures.

China Southern Airlines’ route to Hong Kong and Himalaya Airlines’ flight to Katmandu are now operating from Daxing airport, the airport said. Capital Airline will re-open a route from Beijing to the Maldives tomorrow while China Eastern Airlines will soon resume flights between Beijing and Bangkok.

In the three years since Daxing Airport started operations in September 2019 to Sept. 25 last year, there have been 444,000 flights transporting 52 million passengers, according to airport statistics. The airport has had an annual passenger throughout of 17.3 million passengers and 148,000 flights a year on average.

The airport is designed to be a world-class air transport hub and will have a throughput of 100 million passengers by 2040 when it is fully completed.

Editor: Kim Taylor