Shanghai Pudong International Airport

Shanghai Pudong International is mainland China's busiest international gateway and the world's third-largest airport by cargo tonnage, trailing only Memphis and Hong Kong. The facility serves 107 airlines on 627 routes to 251 destinations and was engineered from the outset as a dedicated long-haul and intercontinental operation, complementing Hongqiao (SHA) which handles most domestic traffic. Built on reclaimed coastal land in the Pudong New Area, PVG sits 30 km (19 mi) southeast of central Shanghai directly on the East China Sea. China Eastern Airlines operates its largest hub here, joined by Shanghai Airlines and cargo heavyweights FedEx (which runs its Asia-Pacific super-hub at PVG) and UPS. Five parallel runways — the longest 13,123 ft (4,000 m) — support simultaneous movements on both sides of a central satellite terminal, with Terminal 1 and Terminal 2 flanking the landside and a dedicated Satellite Terminal S1/S2 sitting between the runway pairs, connected by the world's first inter-terminal automated people-mover running underneath active taxiways. The Shanghai Maglev, the world's first commercial high-speed magnetic levitation line, departs the terminal at up to 431 km/h (268 mph), a scale-of-engineering signature matched by few airports globally. Internationally, PVG is a critical trans-pacific and intra-asian junction: nonstop service reaches all major North American hubs, most European capitals, and the dense Southeast Asian network, with unusually deep connectivity to secondary Chinese cities via onward domestic transfers. Passenger throughput exceeded 76M in 2019 pre-pandemic and is back on a steep recovery trajectory.