Arriving at Beijing's new airport is like flying into the future

By chance, rather than any plan on my part, I happened to be involved in the making of a bit of history on Sunday.

My overnight British Airways flight BA039 from London Heathrow was the first international flight to land at Beijing's new Daxing airport.

We were alerted to this fact about our soon impending destiny by the captain after we had climbed through torrents of rain heading towards England's Suffolk coastline.