Airport shuffles its flight schedule to ease morning crunch

Beijing Capital International Airport, the nation's busiest, began to adjust departure times on Monday to ease traffic pressure and increase punctuality.

According to the Civil Aviation Administration's authority responsible for North China, the airport is reducing departures between 6 am and 9 am - the peak morning departure hours - and rescheduling them later in the day.

The total number of flights arriving and departing the airport daily - about 1,700 - doesn't change.