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'Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport' (Simplified Chinese: 上海虹桥国际机场, Traditional Chinese: 上海虹橋國際機場, Pinyin: Shànghǎi Hóngqiáo Guójì Jīcháng, Translation: Rainbow Bridge International Airport) is one of the two airports in Shanghai, People's Republic of China. The airport is in the western part of a still relatively urban area of Shanghai.

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History

Airlines

References

External links

History

Before the construction of Shanghai Pudong International Airport in 1999, Hongqiao Airport served as Shanghai's main international airport. The airport presently has no scheduled international flights, although "city-to-city" services to central Tokyo's Haneda Airport are scheduled to commence on September 29, 2007^[1] and later central Seoul's Gimpo International Airport.
One taxi rank serves the airport from the arrivals level. A bus stop provides various services to other parts of the city. As of October 2003, one minibus route terminates at Jing An Temple station, and costs CNY 4.50.
An extension of Shanghai Metro Line 2 to the airport is under construction.
Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport has won state approval for a 15.3 billion yuan expansion that features a second runway and a new terminal. The growth plan for the smaller of the city's two airports is expected to boost Hongqiao's capacity to 40 million passengers a year by 2015, according to the statement. The expansion project comprises a 3,300-meter runway and a new terminal with an area of 250,000 square meters, plus new public facilities.
Currently under construction, the proposed extension Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport of the Shanghai Maglev Train will be from Longyang Road through Shanghai South Railway Station to Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport. When finished, then the track will be 55km and also have a travel time of 15 minutes between the two airports. So far, the Hangzhou extension has been postponed.

Airlines

★ Air China (Beijing, Guangzhou, Guilin, Guiyang, Hohhot, Kunming, Qingdao, Tianjin, Wuhan, Xiamen, Yantai)

★ All Nippon Airways (Tokyo-Haneda) [starts September 29, 2007]

★ China Eastern Airlines (Beijing, Changsha, Datong, Fuzhou, Ganzhou, Guangzhou, Guilin, Guiyang, Hefei, Hohhot, Huangyan, Jinan, Jinjiang, Kunming, Lanzhou, Lianyungang, Linyi, Liuzhou, Luoyang, Nanchang, Nanning, Ningbo, Qingdao, Shantou, Shijiazhuang, Taiyuan, Tianjin, Tokyo-Haneda [starts September 29, 2007], Tunxi, Urumqi, Weihai, Wenzhou, Wuhan, Wuyishan, Xiamen, Xuzhou, Yantai, Yibin, Yichang, Zhengzhou, Zhoushan)

★ China Southern Airlines (Beijing, Changsha, Dayong, Guangzhou, Guilin, Guiyang, Kunming, Nanning, Nanyang, Sanya, Shantou, Urumqi, Wuhan, Yantai, Zhengzhou)

★ Deer Air (Lijiang City, Sanya)

★ Hainan Airlines (Beijing, Changzhi, Dongying, Taiyuan, Tianjin, Weifang)

★ Japan Airlines (Tokyo-Haneda) [starts September 29, 2007]

★ Juneyao Airlines (Guilin, Sanya)

★ Shandong Airlines (Jinan, Qingdao, Yantai)

★ Shanghai Airlines (Baotou, Beijing, Changsha, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Guilin, Guiyang, Hefei, Hohhot, Jinan, Jiujiang, Kunming, Linyi, Mianyang, Nanchang, Nanning, Qingdao, Shantou, Shijiazhuang, Taiyuan, Tianjin, Tokyo-Haneda [starts September 29, 2007], Urumqi, Wanxian, Weihai, Wenzhou, Wuhan, Xiamen, Xiangfan, Xuzhou, Yantai, Yichang, Yinchuan, Zhengzhou)

★ Shenzhen Airlines (Jingdezhen)

★ Spring Airlines (Changde, Guilin, Haikou, Mianyang, Nanchang, Qingdao, Sanya, Tianjin, Wenzhou, Xiamen, Zhuhai)

★ Xiamen Airlines (Fuzhou, Jinjiang, Nanchang, Xiamen)

References

1. [http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2007-09/01/content_6073285.htm

External links

★ Shanghai Airport website

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