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, Frankfurt, Paris, San Francisco)
- Air France
- All Nippon Airways (Osaka, Tokyo Narita)
- American Airlines (Chicago O'Hare starting April 2006)
- Asiana Airlines (Seoul, Jeju, Daegu)
- China Southern Airlines
- China Airlines (part of the Three Links)
- Continental Airlines (Newark, Subject to Government Approval)
- Emirates
- Finnair
- Hainan Airlines
- Japan Airlines (Osaka, Tokyo Narita)
- KLM
- Korean Air (Busan, Gwangju, Cheongju)
- Lufthansa (Frankfurt, Munich)
- Malaysia Airlines
- Northwest Airlines (Detroit via Tokyo Narita)
- Philippine Airlines
- Qatar Airways
- Royal Brunei
- Scandinavian Airlines System (Stockholm)
- Singapore Airlines
- Thai Airways
- United Airlines (San Francisco)
- Virgin Atlantic Airways
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