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Shanghai, China
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() is an Airport located in the eastern part of Pudong district of Shanghai , China .
The airport opened on October 1 , 1999 , replacing Shanghai 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 parallel 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 the Pudong International Airport to Long Yang Road Metro station. 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 yen grant from Japan . In 2004, the airport handled nearly 500 flights per day, carrying more than 35 million passengers per year.
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 first and only terminal right now.
In 2005, Continental Airlines plans to commence service from Newark to Shanghai starting March 2007 pending Chinese government approval.
- Air Canada (Vancouver)
- Air China (Beihai, Beijing, Chengdu, Chongqing, Frankfurt, Fukuoka, Istanbul, Los Angeles, Milan-Malpensa, Munich, Nagoya, Ningbo, Osaka Kansai, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Rome Fiumicino, San Francisco, Shenzhen, Sydney, Tokyo-Narita, Wehzhou, Yantai)
- Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
- Air Europa (Barcelona, Madrid)
- Air India (Bangkok, Mumbai, New Delhi)
- Air Macau (Macau)
- Air Plus Comet (Barcelona, Madrid)
- Alitalia (Milan-Malpensa)
- All Nippon Airways (Tokyo-Narita, Osaka-Kansai)
- American Airlines (Chicago-O'Hare)
- Asiana Airlines (Seoul Incheon, Jeju, Daegu)
- Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
- British Airways (London-Heathrow)
- Cathay Pacific Airways (Hong Kong)
- China Eastern Airlines (Bangkok, Baoshan, Beihei, Beijing, Busan, Changsha, Cheongju, Daegu, Dalian, Dayong, Delhi, Dhaka, Diqing, Fukuoka, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Guilin, Guiyang, Gwangju, Haikou, Hangzhou, Harbin, Hefei, Hiroshima, Hohhot, Hong Kong, Huangshan, Huangyan, Jeju, Jinan, Jingyong, Kagoshima, Komatsu, Kuala Lumpur, Kunming, Lanzhou, Lianyungang, Lijiang City, Lincang, London-Heathrow, Longyan, Los Angeles, Luxi, Luzhou, Madrid, Mandalay, Matsuyama, Melbourne, Mian Yang, Moscow-Domodedovo, Nagasaki, Nagoya, Nanchang, Nanjing, Nanning, Niigata, Ningbo, Okayama, Okinawa, Osaka-Kansai, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Phuket, Qingdao, Saipan, Sanya, Sapporo, Seoul-Incheon, Shantou, Shenyang, Shenzhen, Shijiazhuang, Siem Reap, Simao, Singapore, Sydney, Taiyuan, Tianjin, Tokyo-Narita, Urumqi, Vancouver, Vientiane, Wenzhou, Wuhan, Wuyishan, Xi'an, Xiamen, Xining, Xuzhou, Yantai, Yibin, Yinchuan, Zhangjiajie, Zhaotong, Zhengzhou, Zhoushan, Zhuhai)
- China Southern Airlines (Changchun, Dalian, Guangzhou, Haikou, Harbin, Kuala Lumpur, Qiqihar, Sanya, Shenyang, Shenzhen, Zhangjiajie, Zhuhai)
- Continental Airlines (Newark, Subject to Government Approval, if approved they will operate flights on March 2007)
- Emirates (Dubai)
- Finnair (Helsinki)
- Garuda Indonesia (Jakarta, Singapore)
- Hainan Airlines (Haikou)
- Dragonair (Hong Kong)
- Japan Airlines (Fukuoka, Osaka-Kansai, Nagoya, Tokyo-Narita)
- KLM (Amsterdam)
- Korean Air (Busan, Cheongju, Gwangju, Seoul-Incheon)
- Lufthansa (Frankfurt, Munich)
- Malaysia Airlines (Kuala Lumpur)
- Northwest Airlines (Detroit, Tokyo-Narita)
- Philippine Airlines (Manila)
- Qantas (Sydney, Melbourne)
- Qatar Airways (Doha, Seoul-Incheon)
- Royal Brunei (Bandar Seri Begawan)
- Scandinavian Airlines System (Copenhagen)
- Shanghai Airlines (Beijing, Chengdu, Chongqing, Dalian, Guangzhou, Haikou, Harbin, Ho Chi Minh City, Jinzhou, Macau, Phnom Penh, Qingdao, Sanya, Seoul-Incheon, Shenyang, Shenzhen, Weihai, Yantai)
- Shenzhen Airlines (Shenzhen)
- Singapore Airlines (Singapore)
- Thai Airways International (Bangkok)
- Turkish Airlines (Istanbul)
- United Airlines (Chicago-O'Hare, 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 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 (on Taiwan ).
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