Those travelling to Beijing will soon have a new flight option when Singapore Airlines (SIA) launches daily flights between Singapore and Beijing’s Daxing International Airport in November. SIA will also increase the number of weekly flights to Beijing Capital International Airport from 18 to 21 starting Aug 5. With these new and additional flights, SIA will have 28 weekly flights to Beijing from November, SIA said in a statement on June 24. With the addition of Beijing Daxing International Airport, the SIA Group – which comprises SIA and its low-cost subsidiary Scoot – will serve 24 destinations in mainland China. Other destinations include Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Chengdu. Located in the south of Beijing, Daxing airport gives passengers convenient access to Beijing, Hebei, and Tianjin regions, where several world cultural heritage sites are located, via a network of highways, subways and railways, said SIA. It was launched in 2019 and cost 450b yuan (S$87b). The phoenix-shaped airport, abbreviated PKX, will help ease pressure on the existing Capital International Airport in the capital’s northeast.<br/>