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New Airports Travel: Beijing's T3 Is Ready for the Games

The Olympic Games start next month, which means Beijing's brand-new Terminal 3 is about to host the world. Open for business since February, one of our readers just flew into the new addition to Beijing Capital International and sent along some photos.

Amazingly, it looks like T3 is still spotless and ready for the rest of the 64 million passengers it's supposed to handle by the end of this year. Prep for your visit with this photo slideshow:

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Uncrowded Airports: Beijing's Terminal 3

T3 at Beijing Capital International officially opened today, greeting a domestic flight from Shandong with bouquets before a British Airways flight touched down a few hours later. While officials expect 64 million passengers to pour through this year, so far there are no lines at the nearly 300 check-in counters.

The soft opening today has the terminal hosting six airlines. By March 26, 20 more carriers will move into the building, undoubtedly making things busier.

Even once all those flyers start arriving, there should be enough services to go around. T3 has 64 restaurants and 84 retail outlets, connected by 437 moving sidewalks and a high-speed train. Good thing, that. From end to end, the new terminal stretches more than two miles.

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[Photo: (c) Tom van Dillen]

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New Airports Travel: A Closer Look at Beijing's T3

Yesterday we brought you some renderings of the new Terminal 3 at Beijing Capital International, the massive building that'll be opening to Air China flights soon. But after a little digging, we rustled up these killer photos of the building, taken just a couple days ago.

Beijing-based Tom van Dillen uploaded a bunch of his shots to Flickr, in which you can see workers cleaning up floors, scrubbing down the roof and generally putting the final touches on this ginormous project. The doors open on February 29.

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[Photos: (c) Tom van Dillen]

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New Airports Travel: Beijing's Terminal 3

With our Heathrow and JFK obsessions, the new Terminal 3 at Beijing Capital International almost slipped by us. But we're on the case now, with a gallery of renderings from the project's architects, Foster and Partners. The new building will start trial operations on February 29 and will be up to full speed by March 26.

Air China and other Star Alliance partners will anchor the operations out of T3. The building itself will be almost 2.5 miles long and include a train system for moving passengers between its 120 gates. Once on the ground, travelers will have easy access to the city via a rail link with the Beijing subway.

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