The first flights took off from Beijing’s new Daxing International airport today – an airport that cost US$63 billion to build and is roughly the size of 100 football fields. It is set to become one of the world’s busiest airports. The airport is shaped like a phoenix, and was designed by famed Iraqi-born architect Zaha Hadid. Daxing has four separate runways and can handle up to 72 million passengers annually by 2025. The major downside is that the new airport is situated around 46 km outside of central Beijing, around twice the distance of Capital Airport. An express train from Daxing will take about 20 minutes to reach the South Beijing.