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"For those who like to pinch a little to catch a flight, Pudong Airport will teach him how to be a man. ”
This is a piece of advice from many Shanghainese tourists to catch a flight, knowing that with the continuous expansion of Pudong Airport, it has reached 40 square kilometers in 2019, which is even larger than Macau.
Many people miss the plane because they get lost and run around in the airport, you must know that the airport is meant to bring convenience, but tourists in order to hurry, not only have to transfer to the subway at the airport, but also have to walk tens of thousands of steps in order to board the plane.
However, in Shanghai, where every inch of land is at a premium, is it necessary for him to build such a big one?
The largest airport in China
Subways are not uncommon, but the subway set up in the airport, which is believed to be rare, is located at Pudong Airport in Shanghai.
And some people just want to catch a plane, so they have to walk up to 25,000 steps in the airport and properly board the special forces.
Some people will think that it is not just an airport, no matter how big it is, you must know that Pudong Airport covers an area of 40 square kilometers, and Macau, a special administrative region of the mainland, is only 32.5 square kilometers.
An airport of this size will have traces of historical innovation, but who would have thought that Pudong Airport has only been built for a few decades. In 1999, Pudong International Airport was officially opened, and the newly built airport only had one simple building and one runway.
By 2020, Pudong Airport has 2 terminals, 4 runways and the world's largest satellite hall, and one airport can accommodate more than 70 million tourists, ranking third in the world in terms of storage capacity.
Going from a small airport to an international airport is no easy task.
It was only in 1986 that Shanghai began to prepare for the establishment of Shanghai Pudong Airport, and after sufficient preparations, it began to make a strategic decision to jointly build the airport with the central government, and it was not until 1994 that the research report on the airport was completed.
If you want to build an international-level airport, then its location is crucial, originally selected in Chuansha County, but found that there is an earthquake fault zone underground, which is extremely unsafe, so it moved south to Nanhui County, and finally settled here.
During the construction of the first phase of Pudong Airport, a 4,000-meter-long runway and two taxiways of the same length were directly established, and the terminal building had reached 280,000 square meters at that time, making it the first time that an airport of this scale was established in the mainland.
It was not until September 1999 that the first aircraft FM451 officially took off, and Pudong Airport was officially announced to be open to traffic.
It's like a labyrinth of airports
The airport area is very large, and many passengers who have experienced it are worried about whether they can get on the plane on time, so it is very common to arrive at the airport half a day or even a day in advance, and the hotels and guesthouses configured at the airport obviously take this problem into account.
But because the airport is too big, it is inevitable to be complained by netizens, among which the H boarding gate makes people love and hate, and some netizens have personally experienced a handful of boarding gates from the entrance to H, and there is a hearty race against time.
It's lucky to have the opportunity to board on time, but there will always be some unlucky ones who are scattered by the crowd and get lost.
You must know that the internal facilities of Pudong Airport are difficult to distinguish, even if there are signs, some people with a poor sense of direction will not be able to find the way, and there are even incidents of catching a plane with friends and turning around and disappearing into the sea of people.
In 2019, the LPL held a star weekend, in which the guest UZI and his girlfriend set off from Pudong Airport to Hainan, although they often fly around to compete, must be familiar with the airport, but there are still small episodes at Pudong Airport.
Originally, he just went to the bathroom, but because he didn't bring his mobile phone, UZI was scattered by the crowd and everyone when he was about to go back, and he could only grope his way in a daze, and his girlfriend couldn't wait for him to be anxious, and even sent a radio to find him.
In the end, his teammates on the same team found him and pulled him back, so that he did not miss the plane flight in time.
This kind of thing is more than once or twice, and in November 2023, the Japanese game editor にゃるら got lost at Pudong Airport.
If you simply get separated from the staff, then the way to find it can be simpler, after all, Pudong Airport is not strange about this situation, but the problem is that this editor is still a fat house, and he has no contact information for anyone at all.
Saito Dadi, who came to receive him, kept inquiring about his news on Weibo.,When everyone was anxious,Missing for 8 hoursにゃるら appeared in the hotel.,It turned out that he only exchanged cash.,And directly into the subway to the town 40 kilometers away from Pudong Square。
In the end, hungry and thirsty, he was noticed by several old men and gave him help, so that he could come back safely.
These things have more or less attracted the attention of netizens, but when they saw that it was Pudong Airport, it was instantly clear.
There are also many people who say that since so many people are lost here, why did they build such a big airport, is it just for the sake of face?
Face engineering
Shanghai Pudong Airport, is the first airport in the mainland built entirely by the state itself, it contains how many craftsmen's efforts, as an important international aviation channel, its orientation group is naturally not only Chinese, in this to the international hub, foreigners are also very common.
To meet the needs of tourists, Pudong Airport began to expand in stages.
In 2008, the second phase of Pudong Airport was officially completed, and the second terminal and third runway were put into operation in March, when the airport had already handled 60 million passengers.
However, it was not long before it was put into use, and it was re-expanded because of the large air flow, and the third expansion of Pudong Airport was completed in 2019, but it didn't take long for it to continue to expand after three years, and the passenger throughput at this time was already hundreds of millions.
By 2023, Pudong Airport will be able to accommodate more than 100 million tourists, and he can help divert the flow of other airports around it when the passenger flow is huge, relieving the pressure.
Usually the flow of passengers is large, let alone such days as holidays and Spring Festival travel.
Take this year's Spring Festival as an example, on February 8, 2024, there were as many as 1,546 flights in and out of Pudong Airport, and on the 15th, the passenger flow reached 243,000 on that day alone, reaching the record of the highest number of flights and tourists in a single day.
Imagine how Pudong Airport would have faced such a large number of people if it hadn't expanded to such a large size.
And if you encounter extreme weather, storms and rains and other weather will affect the normal operation of flights, expand the scale to deal with these unexpected situations.
Convenience from the airport
Pudong Airport is not only a large area, its humanization is also far beyond the international airports of other countries, for example, the popularity of high technology, in order to prevent passengers from jamming some documents and causing chaos, so the airport is equipped with face turnstiles, domestic paperless services, have greatly alleviated the embarrassment in this regard.
In addition, when checking in luggage, tourists can also make an appointment in advance, and the luggage tracking system also greatly solves the problem that luggage will be lost due to a large number of people.
Restaurants, shopping malls, mother and baby rooms, these common facilities are conveniently distributed in all corners of Pudong Airport, bringing a lot of convenience to people.
The expansion of the airport area is also for more services to be implemented to better meet the actual situation of the mainland's large population base and large passenger flow.
In 2019, a Japanese duty-free shop chain signed a contract with Pudong Airport for 17,000 square meters and 41 billion yuan per month, and the contract was only for 7 years.
In this way, the rent per square meter is as high as more than 300,000.
In the face of this high rent for some shops, the opening of restaurants is inevitable, because the ground rent is very expensive, so it is conceivable that the prices here are also very expensive, forty or fifty a bowl of noodles, a dozen yuan a bottle of water.
These seemingly high prices, including the frustration of ground rent, are an important source of income for the airport.
Pudong Airport is not only a few simple shops, but also art galleries and museums, so that people can meet their spiritual needs in a hurry.
As one of the few cities in China with two international airports, Shanghai symbolizes the rapid development of the mainland's aviation industry.
We can't look at things with a one-sided eye, those so-called face projects, how can they not fight for the country's face, now our country's economic development is very fast, airplanes have become the most convenient means of transportation.
The great confidence and convenience brought by Pudong Airport perfectly reflects the value of its establishment, and proves the mainland's stronger and stronger strength with the mainland's increasingly developed aviation industry.
Information sources:
Shangguan News: "[Dynamics] Optimizing the Business Environment, Planning Resources to Help Promote the Implementation of Major Projects for the Fourth Phase of Pudong Airport Expansion"
CNR: "Helping Shanghai Double Flying Wings, Shanghai Construction Engineering Continues to Undertake the Construction of Pudong and Hongqiao Airport Projects"
Shangguan News: "Attention! What unforgettable things have happened in the 21 years since the opening of Pudong Airport"
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