Shanghai Pudong International Airport
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Pudong International Airport (Chinese: 浦东国际机场 pinyin: Pǔdōng Guójì Jīcháng) is an airport located in the eastern part of Pudong district of Shanghai, People's Republic of China. Its IATA Airport Code is PVG and its ICAO Airport Code is ZSPD.
The airport opened on October 1, 1999, replacing Hongqiao Airport as Shanghai's international airport and taking over all of its international flights (including flights to Hong Kong and Macau). A second runway was opened on March 17, 2005. A second terminal is under construction and scheduled for completion by 2007. The long-term plan calls for a total of four terminals and four runways, for a final capacity of 80 million passengers per year.
Transrapid (a German maglev company, which has a test track in Emsland, Germany), constructed the first operational maglev railway in the world, from Shanghai, to the Pudong International Airport. It was inaugurated in 2002. It has a peak speed of 430 km/h and a track length of 30 km.
The airport was largely funded by a $40 billion grant from Japan. In 2004, the airport handled nearly 500 flights per day, carrying more than 35 million passengers.
Airlines
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China Eastern Airlines' main hub is located at Pudong. Other airlines include:
- Air Canada (Vancouver)
- Air China (Beijing, Frankfurt, Paris, San Francisco)
- Air France (Paris Charles de Gaulle)
- All Nippon Airways (Osaka, Tokyo Narita)
- American Airlines (Chicago O'Hare starting April 2006)
- Asiana Airlines (Seoul, Jeju, Daegu)
- British Airways (London Heathrow)
- China Southern Airlines
- China Airlines (part of the Three Links)
- Continental Airlines (Newark, Subject to Government Approval)
- Emirates
- Finnair
- Hainan Airlines
- Japan Airlines (Osaka, Tokyo Narita)
- KLM (Amsterdam)
- Korean Air (Busan, Gwangju, Cheongju)
- Lufthansa (Frankfurt, Munich)
- Malaysia Airlines
- Northwest Airlines (Detroit via Tokyo Narita)
- Philippine Airlines
- Qatar Airways
- Royal Brunei
- Scandinavian Airlines System (Stockholm)
- Singapore Airlines
- Thai Airways
- United Airlines (Chicago O'Hare, San Francisco)
- Virgin Atlantic Airways
External link
- Shanghai Airport website (http://www.shairport.com)fr:Aéroport international Pu Dong