Beijing Capital International Airport won CAPA’s (Center for Asia-Pacific Aviation) Best Airport Award of 2009

The fifth Aviation Outlook Asia and the 2009 Asia Pacific Aviation award ceremony were held in Beijing. At the award dinner, Liu Yanbin, Deputy Party Secretary of the Capital Airports Holding Company, Beijing Capital International Airport Company Limited Party Secretary, received the "2009 Center of Asia Pacific Aviation’s Best Airport Award" from the hands of Peter Harbison, Executive Chairman of Asia-Pacific Aviation Center. This is a re-access to supreme honor of Asia-Pacific Aviation center after the "Best Airport Development Award of Annual Center of Asia-Pacific Aviation 2008" last year. Under the influence of this year’s financial crisis, the world civil aviation industry get bogged in trouble, while the Beijing Capital International Airport is showing its powerful strength, maintaining double-digit growth, which not only helps to promote the development of China’s civil aviation industry but also plays a powerful stimulus to the recovery of the international aviation industry, said Peter Harbison, Executive Chairman of Center of Asia Pacific Aviation. By October 25, the passenger throughput of Beijing Capital International Airport touched 53.28 million passengers, with a year-to-year increase of 18.5%, ranking fourth in the world industry. The passenger satisfaction in the third quarter of this year has reached 4.47, among the top five worldwide.