Shanghai Pudong International Airport

Shanghai Pudong International Airport Template:Airport codes is one of the two international airports serving Shanghai, China.

Pudong Airport serves both international flights and a smaller number of domestic flights, while the city's other major airport, Shanghai–Hongqiao, mainly serves domestic and regional flights in East Asia. Located about Template:Convert east of the city center, Pudong Airport occupies a Template:Convert site adjacent to the coastline in eastern Pudong. The airport is operated by Shanghai Airport Authority.

The airport is the main hub for China Eastern Airlines and Shanghai Airlines, and a major international hub for Air China, as well as a secondary hub for China Southern Airlines. It is also the hub for privately owned Juneyao Air and Spring Airlines, and an Asia-Pacific cargo hub for FedEx, UPS<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and DHL. The DHL hub, opened in July 2012, is reportedly the largest express hub in Asia.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Pudong Airport had two main passenger terminals, flanked on both sides by four operational parallel runways.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> A third passenger terminal was started in 2021, in addition to a satellite terminal and two additional runways, which will raise its annual capacity from 60 million passengers to 80 million, along with the ability to handle six million tons of freight.<ref>Shanghai Airport reports profit growth, despite big investments in massive new facilities at Pudong – China Airlines, Airports and Aviation News Template:Webarchive. Chinaaviation.aero (11 March 2008). Retrieved on 22 January 2011.</ref>

Pudong Airport is a fast-growing hub for both passenger and cargo traffic. With 3,778,331 metric tons handled in 2024, the airport is the world's second-busiest airport by cargo traffic. Pudong Airport also served a total of 76,787,039 passengers in 2024, making it the busiest airport in China, fourth-busiest in Asia, and the tenth-busiest in the world.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> It is also the busiest international gateway of mainland China, with 35.25 million international passengers.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Shanghai Pudong is the busiest international hub in China, and about half of its total passenger traffic is international.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Pudong Airport is connected to Shanghai Hongqiao Airport by Shanghai Metro Line 2, the Shanghai Maglev Train via Pudong Airport Terminal 1&2 station and the Airport Link Line (Shanghai Suburban Railway).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> There are also airport buses connecting it with the rest of the city.

History

Early development

Construction of the first phase of the new Shanghai Pudong International Airport began in October 1997, took two years to build at a cost of RMB 12 billion (US$1.67 billion), and was officially opened on 1 October 1999.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

A second runway was opened on 17 March 2005,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and construction of phase two (including a second terminal, a third runway and a cargo terminal) began in December 2005 and started operation on 26 March 2008, in time for the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics.

In November 2011, Pudong Airport received approval from the national government for a new round of expansion which includes two runways. The Template:Convert fourth runway, along with an auxiliary taxiway and traffic control facilities, is projected to cost 2.58 billion yuan (US$403 million). The Template:Convert fifth runway, along with a new traffic tower, will cost 4.65 billion yuan (US$726.6 million). Construction was completed in 2015 and has doubled the capacity of the airport.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Ongoing expansion

Pudong International Airport officially started the third phase of the Pudong International Airport expansion with the construction on a new south satellite terminal on 29 December 2015. The new satellite terminal will be the world's largest single satellite terminal with a total construction area of Template:Convert, which is larger than the Pudong International Airport T2 terminal building (Template:Convert). The satellite terminal is composed of two halls, S1 and S2, forming an H-shaped structure. It will have an annual design capacity of 38 million passengers, The total cost of the project is estimated to be about 20.6 billion yuan. Halls S1 and S2 will have 83 gates.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> A high capacity people mover connecting T1 to S1 and T2 to S2 will be constructed. After the completion of the satellite terminal in 2019, Pudong International Airport will have an annual passenger capacity of 80 million passengers, ranking among the top ten airports in the world by capacity.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

As of October 2019, the satellite terminal is in operation and connected by people movers to the main Terminals 1 and 2.

By 6 January 2021, work on Pudong Airport T3 began on the south side of the airfield. The new terminal is anticipated to serve 50 million annual passengers when it opens according to city officials, while the entire airport is expected to have 130 million passengers by 2030. Several public transport lines will be extended to T3.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Facilities

Terminal 1 was opened to public and officially opened on 1 October 1999 along with a Template:Convert runway and a cargo hub.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Terminal 2 was officially opened to the public on 26 March 2008 along with the third runway, making the entire airport capable of handling 60 million passengers and 4.2 million tons of cargo annually. Terminal 2 is shaped like Terminal 1, although it more closely resembles a wave, and is slightly larger than Terminal 1. Terminal 2 also has more floor areas than Terminal 1. Terminal 2 is primarily used by Air China and other Star Alliance members.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Construction on an additional satellite concourse facility to accommodate further gates and terminal space started on 29 December 2015 and officially opened in September 2019.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> It is the largest stand-alone satellite airport terminal buildings in the world at Template:Convert.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

The satellite terminals (S1 and S2) are connected to the main terminals (T1 and T2) by the Shanghai Pudong Airport automatic people mover, an underground automated metro system.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The West line connects terminals T1 and S1, and the East line connects terminals T2 and S2.

The airport has been using the Airport Collaborative Decision Making system (A-CDM) developed by the aviation data service company VariFlight since January 2017. The system is aimed to improve on-time performance and safety of the airport's operations. By June 2017, Shanghai Pudong airport recorded 62.7% punctuality rate, which was a 15% increase compared to the same period previous year.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Statistics

Annual traffic statistics at Shanghai Pudong International Airport

Year	Passengers	% change	Aircraft movements	Cargo (tons)
2006<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	26,788,586		231,994
2007<ref name="stats2008">Template:Cite web</ref>	28,920,432	Template:IncreaseTemplate:08.0%	253,532	2,559,098
2008<ref name="stats2008" />	28,235,691	Template:DecreaseTemplate:02.4%	265,735	2,603,027
2009<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	31,921,009	Template:IncreaseTemplate:013.1%	287,916	2,543,394
2010<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	40,578,621	Template:IncreaseTemplate:027.1%	332,126	3,228,081
2011<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	41,447,730	Template:IncreaseTemplate:02.1%	344,086	3,085,268
2012<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	44,880,164	Template:IncreaseTemplate:08.3%	361,720	2,938,157
2013<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	47,189,849	Template:IncreaseTemplate:05.1%	371,190	2,928,527
2014<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	51,687,894	Template:IncreaseTemplate:09.5%	402,105	3,181,654
2015	60,098,073	Template:IncreaseTemplate:016.3%	449,171	3,275,231
2016<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	66,002,414	Template:IncreaseTemplate:09.8%	479,902	3,440,280
2017<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	70,001,237	Template:IncreaseTemplate:06.1%	496,774	3,835,600
2018<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	74,006,331	Template:IncreaseTemplate:05.7%	504,794	3,768,573
2019	76,153,455	Template:IncreaseTemplate:02.9%	581,848	3,624,230
2020	30,476,531	Template:DecreaseTemplate:059.9%	325,678	3,686,627
2021	32,206,814	Template:IncreaseTemplate:05.6%	349,524	3,982,616
2022<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	14,178,385	Template:DecreaseTemplate:056.0%	204,378	3,117,215.6
2023<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	54,496,397	Template:IncreaseTemplate:0285.2%	433,867	3,440,084.3

Ground transportation

Rail transit

Shanghai Suburban Railway Airport Link Line

The Airport Link Line of Shanghai Suburban Railway commenced operation on 27 December 2024.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

High-speed rail

The airport will be directly linked to Shanghai East railway station in 2027.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Accidents and incidents

• On 28 November 2009, an Avient Aviation McDonnell Douglas MD-11F cargo plane registered to Zimbabwe (registration: Z-BAV) departing for Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan crashed into a warehouse near the runway of the airport due to a tailstrike that caught fire during takeoff and broke into several pieces with seven people on board. Three people died and four were injured.<ref>Cargo plane crashes at Shanghai airport – Xinhua Template:Webarchive. Reuters. Retrieved on 22 January 2011.</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• On 22 July 2020, an Ethiopian Airlines Cargo Boeing 777 freighter aircraft caught fire while parked at Pudong International Airport as it prepared for a trip to São Paulo, Brazil and to Santiago, Chile via Addis Ababa, shortly after landing from Brussels, Belgium. No injuries were reported.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

See also

• Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport
• List of airports in China
• List of airports with triple takeoff/landing capability
• List of the busiest airports in China

External links

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