Shanghai Airport

Shanghai Airport

Shanghai Airport

Airport Name: Shanghai Pudong International Airport
Phone Number: +86-21-96081388
Airport Code: IATA: PVG, ICAO: ZSPD
Website: www.shanghaiairport.com/en
Address: Qihang Road 900, Pudong New District, Shanghai, China

Shanghai Pudong International Airport (IATA: PVG, ICAO: ZSPD) is a major aviation hub in Asia, particularly in the East Asian region, and is the primary international airport serving Shanghai of the People’s Republic of China.

Shanghai Airport located about 30 kilometres (19 miles) east of the city centre, it occupies a 40 square kilometres (15 sq mi) site adjacent to the coastline in the eastern edge of Pudong District within the boundaries of the Shanghai Municipality.
The Shanghai Airport  is the main hub for China Eastern Airlines and Shanghai Airlines, and a major international hub for Air China.

Pudong Airport is organised around two main passenger terminals, flanked on both sides by three parallel runways. Current airport masterplans call for the building of a third passenger terminal, a satellite terminal and two additional runways by 2015, raising its capacity from the current 60 million passengers annually to 80 million, along with the ability to handle six million tonnes of air freight.

A station for the Shanghai Maglev Train is sited between the passenger terminals, providing the world’s first commercial high-speed maglev service to downtown Pudong in 7 minutes and 20 seconds. The airport is open 24 hours, one of only a few Chinese airports to be so.
Shanghai Pudong International Airport is a fast-growing hub for both passenger and cargo traffic. With 3,227,914 metric tonnes handled in 2010, the airport is the third busiest airport in the world in terms of freight traffic. Pudong Airport also served a total of 40.6 million passengers in 2010, making it the third busiest airport in mainland China and the 20th busiest in the world. Passenger and cargo traffic both grew by more than 27% in 2010 at the airport.
At present, the pudong airport has the flight of 560 per day which  accounts for about 60% of the whole shanghai airport.
There are 48 airliners home and abroad establishing connection with pudong airport and the  flying lines cover 73 interdomestic cities and areas and 62 cities in  china.

Shanghai Airport

Terminals  of  Shanghai Airport

The airport has 70 boarding bridges along with 218 parking positions. Three runways are in operation: one 4,000-metre (13,000 ft) runway—4E rating—with six taxiways, one 3,800-metre (12,500 ft) runway—4F rating—with four taxiways and one 3,400-metre (11,200 ft) runway—4F rating—with six taxiways.
Terminal 1
Terminal 1 was opened on October 1, 1999 along with a 4000m runway and including a cargo hub. It was built to handle the demand for traffic and to relieve Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport’s traffic. Terminal 1 is shaped like Kansai International Airport’s terminal, but it is shorter and with 28 gates, 13 of which are double decker gates. The exterior of the terminal is shaped like waves. The capacity of Terminal 1 is 20 million passengers. It currently has 204 check-in counters, thirteen luggage conveying belts and covering an area of 280,000 square meters. Terminal 1 has received some controversy about the lack of shopping stalls, the pricing of the shops, confusing locations of restrooms, the escalators and passenger difficulty of moving through the terminal.
Terminal 2
Terminal 2, opened on 26 March 2008, along with the third runway, gives a capacity of 60 million passengers and 4.2 million tonnes of cargo annually. Terminal 2 is shaped like the 1st terminal but it has more of a seagull shaping, rather than a wave shape and is slightly larger than Terminal 1. Terminal 2 will be used for Air China, Shanghai Airlines and other Star Alliance members but it is known that some SkyTeam and Oneworld members will relocate their operations to the terminal.Terminal 2, located behind Terminal 1, opened on March 26, 2008 (same day as the official opening of Terminal 3 at Beijing Capital International Airport), adding an additional capacity of 40 million passengers a year. Once phase two is fully complete, it will give Pudong a capacity of 60 million passengers and 4.2 million tonnes of cargo annually.A transportation center will be added to connect passengers between Terminal 1 and 2 in the future.
Shanghai Airlines moved to Terminal 2 upon its opening on March 26, 2008 with 14 other airlines, including Air India, Northwest Airlines, Qatar Airways, Alitalia, British Airways, Qantas, Virgin Atlantic Airways, Philippine Airlines, Malaysia Airlines, Transaero Airlines, Cebu Pacific, Aerosvit Airlines, Garuda Indonesia and Royal Nepal Airlines. Fellow Star Alliance partners Air Canada, Air China, Air New Zealand, ANA, Asiana Airlines, Lufthansa, Singapore Airlines, Thai Airways and United Airlines have moved on April 29, 2008 along with other airlines, involving 33 airlines in all now operating at Terminal 2.

There are flights directly to l.s, new york, sanfrancisco,  seattle, ankh, rich, fukuoka, nagasaki, nagoya, osaka, tokyo, bangkok,  brussels,frankfurt, madrid, paris, singapore, kasha, rome and other big  cities. besides, there are also district flights from shanghai to  hong kong and macaw.

Shanghai Airport Ground Transportation

Transrapid constructed the first commercial high-speed maglev railway in the world, from the Pudong International Airport to Longyang Road Metro station. It was inaugurated in 2002. It has a peak speed of 431 km/h and a track length of 30 km. A transportation center will be built in Phase 3, and will become operational in 2015. The extension of the Shanghai Metro Line 2 to Pudong International Airport has finished construction. Pudong International Airport and Shanghai Hongqiao Airport are linked by subway.