A Read the text. H o w many a i r p o r t s is Beijing going to have i n 2020?The world's busiest airport today is in the USA. Nearly
54 million passengers pass through Atlanta International
Airport every year. However, by the end of the next
decade there's going to be a new airport even bigger and
busier than Atlanta. The new airport is going to be in the
capital of China: Beijing.
Beijing already has two airports. The first is Beijing Capital,
where an extra terminal was built for the 2008 Olympic
Games. The second is Nanyuan Airport, which is mainly
used by military planes .Just over 73 million passengers
passed through Beijing Capital Airport last year, making it
the second busiest after Atlanta. But the current airport
is not big enough for all the Chinese passengers who want
to travel by plane. This is why the government is going to
build a new one.
The new airport is going to be in the suburb of Daxing,
in the south of the city. Daxing is about an hour's drive
from the city centre. The government is going to extend
Beijing's Metro so that passengers can reach it more easily.
There are also plans for a high-speed train line. The airport
is going to have eight runways for commercial flights,
and a ninth runway for military use. This is going to make it
the biggest and the busiest airport in the world.
