{"id":7105,"date":"2019-05-09T08:57:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T12:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/?p=7105"},"modified":"2019-05-15T11:11:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T15:11:57","slug":"beijing-airport-is-filling-up-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/beijing-airport-is-filling-up-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"Beijing Airport is filling up fast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There always seems to be some kind of random event going on in Beijing making life hard for GA\/BA ops. This month it\u2019s the Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations<\/a>, and already the parking situation for GA\/BA is starting to look pretty bleak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ZBAA\/Beijing<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

There are two main periods with heavy restrictions: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

0800L on 13 May to 0800L on 17 May<\/strong>
0800L on 21 May to 0800L on 24 May<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Beijing local time is UTC+8, so you can read those times as 0000z).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During these periods, only one slot will be made available per hour for aircraft not connected with the event, and no overnight parking will be allowed. So that means short turnarounds might be possible, but you\u2019ll be lucky to get a slot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plus there\u2019s the other standard ongoing rule at ZBAA to keep in mind: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daily between 0900-2200L, GA\/BA can only make one movement per aircraft. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So this means that if you arrive during this period you then have to wait til 2200L before you\u2019re allowed to depart again! Confusing? You bet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ZBTJ\/Tianjin<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Many operators like to use cheeky ZBTJ\/Tianjin as an alternative to ZBAA\/Beijing, but it\u2019s now getting busy here too. Local handlers here are saying that ZBTJ is not allowing any overnight parking for GA\/BA at all right now, and even some requests for short-term parking are being denied as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is related to ongoing construction work planned through to the end of June, which means a bunch of stands are closed, and with an influx of aircraft shifting over from ZBAA, there\u2019s less space all round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ZBSJ\/Zhengding<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Where?? Fair question. We had to find it on a map. Zhending! Home to\u2026 well, not very much, by the looks of it. Unless temples<\/a>, towers<\/a>, and Olympic table tennis training centres<\/a> are your thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But the good news is that the airport currently has no restrictions on GA\/BA flights. Although they don\u2019t have an FBO or VIP lounge here (#notsurprised), the airport has a nice long 11,000ft runway, and is open H24. You can get in touch with Mainland GroundExpress<\/a> to arrange handling here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There always seems to be some kind of random event going on in Beijing making…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":3395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[120,109,817,819,1371,820,1370],"class_list":{"0":"post-7105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-briefings","8":"tag-beijing","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-tianjin","11":"tag-zbaa","12":"tag-zbsj","13":"tag-zbtj","14":"tag-zhengding"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7122,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7105\/revisions\/7122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}