Commercial Fixed Wing
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Confusion; Situational Awareness
Deviation - Track / Heading All Types; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Clearance; Ground Incursion Taxiway
Flight Crew Became Reoriented
Airport; Human Factors
Inbound on the arrival; we were told to expect Runway XYR; which we had briefed at altitude prior to descent. The weather was [VFR]. We had the field in sight passing over downtown.Inside the FAF on a visual approach Runway XYR; tower asked if we would like to land on Runway XYC. We agreed to land on Runway XYC and the Pilot Flying (PF) lined up on [a] taxiway; thinking it was Runway XYC. As the Pilot Monitoring (PM); I also looked out and assumed that we were lined up on Runway XYC. We expected an unusual sight picture since 16C had just been opened after having been re-surfaced. The PF said not to worry about changing things in the box since he was lining up visually. I did; however; put in the ILS frequency for Runway XYC in the PF side as back-up. The flight director then showed us to be on glide-slope but off course. In-close the localizer disappeared and only the glideslope portion of the flight director remained. Since I had visually confirmed our intended landing surface; which we assumed to be XYC; I tried to figure out why the localizer information was off; since I had not remembered any NOTAMs to that effect. Approaching 500 feet I focused my attention on monitoring the flare and landing. Upon landing the tower informed us that we had landed on [a] taxiway; which; by that time; was clearly evident to all.
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Air carrier flight crew inadvertently landed on taxiway.