Pudong International Airport - Definition and Overview

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.

Hongqiao Airport was at first Shanghai's primary international airport, but all of its international flights (including flights to Hong Kong and Macau) went to Pudong after it was completed.

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.

Airlines

China Eastern Airlines' main hub is located at Pudong. Other airlines include:

• Air Canada (Vancouver)
• Air China (Beijing, San Francisco)
• Air France (Paris)
• All Nippon Airways
• China Southern Airlines
• China Airlines (Part of 3-links)
• Emirates (Dubai)
• Finnair (Helsinki)
• Hainan Airlines
• Japan Airlines
• KLM (Amsterdam)
• Korean Air (Seoul)
• Malaysia Airlines (Kuala Lumpur)
• Northwest Airlines (Detroit, Tokyo Narita)
• Philippine Airlines (Manila)
• Qatar Airways
• Royal Brunei
• Scandinavian Airlines System (Stockholm)
• Singapore Airlines (Singapore)
• United Airlines (San Francisco, Chicago O'Hare)
• Virgin Atlantic Airways (London Heathrow)

External link

• Shanghai Airport website (http://www.shairport.com)