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'Shanghai Pudong International Airport' () (Simplified Chinese上海浦东国际机场, Traditional Chinese 上海浦東國際機場, pinyin Shànghǎi Pǔdōng Guójì Jīcháng) is an airport located in the eastern part of Pudong district of Shanghai, China. It is a major international gateway into China, handling 17.15 million passengers on international flights in 2006, of which 9 million are foreigners, and beating Beijing Capital International Airport's 12.6 million international passengers^[1]. The airport is the main hub for China Eastern Airlines and Shanghai Airlines. United Parcel Service will open a hub at the airport in 2008. ^[2]
Before the opening of Shanghai Pudong International Airport, Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport used to be main airport of Shanghai. During the 1990's, the expansion of Hongqiao was impossible when the city grew and surrounded Hongqiao. So then the government had to look for an alternative for Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport to take all of its international flights. A particular place was at the coast of the Pudong development zone to the East of Shanghai.
The airport opened on October 1, 1999, replacing Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport as Shanghai's international airport and taking over all of its international flights, including regional flights to Hong Kong and Macau (limited international services will resume at Hongqiao from October 2007^[3]). A second identical runway was opened on March 17, 2005, the third runway set to become operational in the 4th quarter of 2007 and a fourth runway in planning stage. The second terminal is nearly complete and scheduled to open by the end of 2007. The long-term plan calls for a total of three terminals, two satellite halls and five parallel runways, for a final capacity of 80 million passengers per year.
Transrapid constructed the first operational maglev railway in the world, from the Pudong International Airport to Long Yang Road Metro station. It was inaugurated in 2002. It has a peak speed of 431 km/h and a track length of 30 km.
The airport was largely funded by a 40 billion yen (~400 million USD) grant from Japan. In 2004, the airport handled nearly 500 flights per day, carrying more than 20 million passengers per year in and out of China's most populated city. Since Pudong handles many airlines at rush hour times, most planes have to park on the apron. In order to solve this problem, Pudong is building Terminal 2, which will be located behind the Terminal 1, the only terminal at this time.
Shanghai Pudong International Airport is ranked 6th busiest in terms of cargo traffic, and 28th in terms of in international passenger traffic.
Recently, China Southern Airlines stated that Shanghai Pudong International Airport will be home to its five Airbus A380s, however there is no statement if China Southern Airlines will have a hub in Shanghai Pudong International Airport.

Contents

Airlines and destinations

International passenger flights

Domestic passenger flights

Cargo airlines

Incidents

Photo gallery

References

External links

Airlines and destinations

International passenger flights

All flights to Hong Kong and Macau are under this section, as flights to these destinations are treated international flights.



★ Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)

★ Aerosvit Airlines (Kiev-Boryspil)

★ Air Canada (Toronto-Pearson, Vancouver)

★ Air China (Frankfurt, Fukuoka, London-Heathrow, Melbourne, Milan-Malpensa, Nagoya-Centrair, Osaka-Kansai, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Rome-Fiumicino, Sydney, Tokyo-Narita)

★ Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)

★ Air India (Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Mumbai, New Delhi)

★ Air Macau (Macau)

★ Air New Zealand (Auckland)

★ Alitalia (Milan-Malpensa)

★ All Nippon Airways (Nagoya-Centrair, Osaka-Kansai, Tokyo-Narita)

★ American Airlines (Chicago-O'Hare)

★ Asiana Airlines (Daegu, Jeju, Seoul-Incheon)

★ British Airways (London-Heathrow)

★ Cathay Pacific (Hong Kong)

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★ Dragonair (Hong Kong)

★ Cebu Pacific (Manila) [begins September 12, 2007]

★ China Eastern Airlines (Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Brisbane [Starts November 2007]^[4], Busan, Cheongju, Daegu, Delhi, Frankfurt, Fukuoka, Gwangju, Hiroshima, Hong Kong, Jeju, Johannesburg, Kagoshima, Komatsu, Kuala Lumpur, London-Heathrow, Los Angeles, Male, Mandalay, Matsuyama, Melbourne, Moscow-Domodedovo, Nagasaki, Nagoya-Centrair, New York-JFK, Niigata, Okayama, Okinawa, Osaka-Kansai, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Phuket, Saipan, Sapporo-Chitose, Seoul-Incheon, Siem Reap, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo-Narita, Vancouver, Vientiane)

★ China Southern Airlines (Cebu , Kuala Lumpur, Seoul-Incheon)

★ Continental Airlines (Cleveland, Newark) [begins in 2009; Pending gov't approval]

★ Delta Air Lines (Atlanta) [begins March 25, 2008; Pending Gov't Approval]

★ Emirates (Dubai)

★ Finnair (Helsinki)

★ Garuda Indonesia (Jakarta, Singapore)

★ Japan Airlines (Fukuoka, Osaka-Kansai, Nagoya-Centrair, Tokyo-Narita)

★ Jet Airways (Mumbai, San Francisco) [begins October 29, 2007]

★ KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (Amsterdam)

★ Korean Air (Busan, Cheongju, Gwangju, Seoul-Incheon)

★ Lufthansa (Frankfurt, Munich)

★ Malaysia Airlines (Kuala Lumpur)

★ Maxjet (Los Angeles, Seattle/Tacoma) [begins March 2009/pending govt approval] [1]

★ Nepal Airlines (Kathmandu)

★ Northwest Airlines (Detroit [via Tokyo-Narita; nonstop service begins 2007/pending gov't approval], Tokyo-Narita)

★ Philippine Airlines (Manila)

★ Qantas (Melbourne [Starts March 2008]^[5], Sydney)

★ Qatar Airways (Doha, Seoul-Incheon)

★ Royal Brunei Airlines (Bandar Seri Begawan)

★ Shanghai Airlines (Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Macau, Mále, Osaka-Kansai, Phnom Penh, Phuket, Seoul-Incheon, Toyama)

★ Singapore Airlines (Singapore)

★ Swiss International Air Lines (Zurich) [Starts March 30, 2008]

★ Thai Airways International (Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi)

★ Transaero Airlines (St. Petersburg)

★ Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk)

★ United Airlines (Chicago-O'Hare, Los Angeles [begins March 2009/pending govt approval], San Francisco)

★ Virgin Atlantic Airways (London-Heathrow)
In addition, China Airlines, EVA Air and Far Eastern Air Transport (FAT) have operated special flights during Chinese New Year - the 'Cross-strait Charter on Lunar New Year'- to Taipei and Uni Air to Kaohsiung. These flights are part of the Three Links between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China (or Taiwan).

Domestic passenger flights

★ Air China (Beihai, Beijing, Chengdu, Chongqing, Ningbo, Shenzhen, Wenzhou, Yantai)

★ China Eastern Airlines (Baoshan, Beihei, Beijing, Changsha, Dalian, Dayong, Diqing, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Guilin, Guiyang, Haikou, Hangzhou, Harbin, Hefei, Hohhot, Huangshan, Huangyan, Jinan, Jingyong, Kunming, Lanzhou, Lianyungang, Lijiang City, Lincang, Longyan, Luxi, Luzhou, Mian Yang, Nanchang, Nanjing, Nanning, Ningbo, Qingdao, Sanya, Shantou, Shenyang, Shenzhen, Shijiazhuang, Simao, Taiyuan, Tianjin, Urumqi, Wenzhou, Wuhan, Wuyishan, Xi'an, Xiamen, Xining, Xuzhou, Yantai, Yibin, Yinchuan, Zhangjiajie, Zhaotong, Zhengzhou, Zhoushan, Zhuhai)

★ China Southern Airlines (Changchun, Dalian, Guangzhou, Haikou, Harbin, Qiqihar, Sanya, Shenyang, Shenzhen, Xi'an, Zhangjiajie, Zhuhai)

★ Hainan Airlines (Haikou)

★ Shanghai Airlines (Beijing, Chengdu, Chongqing, Dalian, Guangzhou, Haikou, Harbin, Jinzhou, Qingdao, Sanya, Shenyang, Shenzhen, Weihai, Yantai)

★ Shenzhen Airlines (Shenzhen)

Cargo airlines

★ Aeroflot-Cargo (Novosibirsk)

★ Air China Cargo (Los Angeles, Portland (OR))

★ Air France Cargo (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)

★ Air Hong Kong

★ AirBridgeCargo Airlines (Krasnoyarsk)^[6]

★ Alitalia Cargo (Milan-Malpensa)

★ ANA & JP Express

★ Atlas Air

★ Cargolux

★ Cathay Pacific Cargo (Hong Kong)

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★ Dragonair (Hong Kong)

★ China Cargo Airlines

★ China Southern Airlines

★ El Al Cargo (Tel Aviv)

★ Emirates SkyCargo (Dubai)

★ FedEx Express

★ JAL Cargo (Tokyo-Narita)

★ KLM Cargo (Amsterdam)

★ Malaysia Airlines Kargo (Kuala Lumpur)

★ Nippon Cargo Airlines (Osaka-Kansai, Tokyo-Narita)

★ NWA Cargo

★ Polar Air Cargo

★ SAS Cargo Group (Beijing, Copenhagen)

★ Shanghai Airlines Cargo

★ Singapore Airlines Cargo (Los Angeles, Singapore)

★ TNT Airways

★ United Parcel Service

★ Volga-Dnepr (Abakan)

★ Yangtze River Express

Incidents

★ On January 30,2006, the nose gear of a Cargolux Boeing 747-400F collapsed while parked on the cargo apron.^[7]

★ On May 13,2006, A China Eastern Airbus Industries A340-600, flight 5042 from Seoul to Shanghai suffered a tire burst on all of its main landing gears. None of the 232 passengers were hurt.[3]

★ On November 19,2006, An Air Canada Boeing 767-300 flight 38 encountered turbulence en route to Vancouver from Shanghai. Four cabin members were hurt. The plane safely landed in Tokyo's Narita International Airport. This incident occurred just after a domestic Japan Airlines Boeing 777 flight 1348 experienced turbulence which landed safely in Tokyo's Haneda Airport.[4]

Photo gallery

References

1. Pudong airport has most passengers from abroad (The Business Times: January 9 2007)
2. Airliner World June 2007
3. Shuttle flights to connect Tokyo, Shanghai in October, Channel NewsAsia, 25 June, 2007
4. http://www.theage.com.au/news/Business/Qld-to-get-more-Chinese-Mideast-flights/2007/06/29/1182624119255.html
5. http://www.qantas.com.au/regions/dyn/au/publicaffairs/details?ArticleID=2007/may07/Q3591
6. Federal State Unitary Enterprise "State Air Traffic Management Corporation", ''Summer Air Traffic Schedule 25.03.2007 - 27.10.2007 (Airports - Russian international)'', 29 May 2007, p. 74-75
7. [2]

External links

★ Shanghai Airport website

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