Delta Air Lines (DL, Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson) is switching its destination airport in Beijing from Beijing Capital to Beijing Daxing International at the start of the Summer 2019 season, ch-aviation analysis of schedule data has revealed.

From March 28 onwards, the US carrier will fly its daily DL129/128 and DL189/188 flights from Detroit Metropolitan and Seattle Tacoma International to the new airport. Delta operates a mixture of equipment on these routes, using its A350-900s and B767-300s from the Michigan and Washington airports respectively. From October 25, 2020, the flight schedules from Seattle indicate that the 4,731-nautical mile (8,762-kilometre) route will be served by Delta's A330-900 fleet, replacing the existing B767-300 service.

The US carrier joins a growing group of international airlines that have made the move from the Chinese capital city's main airport at Beijing Capital, including British Airways (BA, London Heathrow), Malaysia Airlines (MH, Kuala Lumpur International), and S7 Airlines (S7, Novosibirsk).

Daxing opened to commercial traffic on September 25, 2019. China Eastern Airlines (MU, Shanghai Hongqiao) recently announced that it will launch its first intercontinental service from the airport next year, as it looks to begin a daily A350-900 service to Paris CDG from March 29, 2020.