Shanghai Airport

Shanghai International Airport Co., Ltd. provides airport services in China. It offers customs inspection, security inspection, inspection and quarantine, flight delay, visa, and smoking control instruction services, as well as entry and exit frontier inspection services. The company also provides air cargo, VIP, advertising, aircraft fueling, ground agent, and business aviation services. In addition, it is involved in the operation of hotels. The company is based in Shanghai, China. Shanghai International Airport Co., Ltd. is a subsidiary of Shanghai Airport (Group) Co., Ltd.

Prior to the establishment of Pudong International Airport, Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport was the only primary airport of Shanghai. During the 1990s, the expansion of Hongqiao Airport to meet growing demand became impossible as the surrounding urban area was developing significantly, and an alternative to assume all international flights had to be sought.After deliberation, the municipal government decided to adopt the suggestion from Professor Chen Jiyu of East China Normal University, who wrote a letter to the Mayor of Shanghai Xu Kuangdi suggesting that the new airport should be constructed on the tidal flats of the south bank of the Yangtze River estuary, on the coast of the Pudong development zone to the east of Shanghai.

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 , and was opened on 1 October 1999. It covers an area of 40 square kilometres and is 30 kilometres from downtown Shanghai. The first phase of the airport has one 4E category runway along with two parallel taxiways, an 800,000-square-metre apron, seventy-six aircraft positions and a 50,000 m2 cargo warehouse.A second runway was opened on 17 March 2005, and construction of phase two 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 3,800-metre fourth runway, along with an auxiliary taxiway and traffic control facilities, is projected to cost 2.58 billion yuan . The 3,400-metre fifth runway, along with a new traffic tower, will cost 4.65 billion yuan . Construction was completed in 2015 and has doubled the capacity of the airport.

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 622,000 square meters, which is larger than the Pudong International Airport T2 terminal building . 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. A high capacity people mover connecting T1 to SI 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.As of October 2019, the satellite S1 is in operation and connected by MRT to T1.