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Hongqiao Airport
Airport Directory » China » Shanghai » Hongqiao AirportShanghai Hongqiao International Airport (IATA: SHA, ICAO: ZSSS) (simplified Chinese: 上海虹桥国际机场; traditional Chinese: 上海虹橋國際機場; pinyin: Shànghǎi Hóngqiáo Guójì Jīchǎng; literally "Rainbow Bridge International Airport") is 1 of the 2 airports in Shanghai, People's Republic of China. The airport is in the western division of a still relatively-urban area of Shanghai.
In 2008, Hongqiao airport dealt 22,877,404 riders, surviving the 4th busiest airport in China. The airport was also the fifth busiest airport in terms of freight traffic and the sixth busiest airport by traffic motilities.
History
Before the pass completion of Shanghai Pudong International Airport in 1999, Hongqiao Airport assisted as Shanghai's briny international airport. The airport currently has 2 international voyages with "city-to-city" service to central Tokyo's Haneda Airport which set about on September 29, 2007. Services set about to central Seoul's Gimpo International Airport on October 28th, 2007.
A cab rank assists the airport from the arrivals stage. A bus halt furnishes various services to other divisions of the town. A minibus path ends at Jing An Temple station.
An extension of Shanghai Metro Line two to the airport is under building.
Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport has won province blessing for a 15.3 billion kwai enlargement that characteristics a 2nd landing track and a new depot. The development programme for the little of the town's 2 airports is anticipated to encouragement Hongqiao's capacity to 40 million riders a yr by 2010, consorting to the statement. The enlargement labor consists a 3,300-meter landing track and a new depot with an area of 250,000 square meter, plus new public installations.
The advised extension Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport of the Shanghai Maglev Train shall be from Longyang Road through Shanghai South Railway Station to Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport. When complete, then the landing track shall be 55km long and also have a travel clip of 15 min. between the 2 airports. There have been treatments approximately slow down the Maglev within urban area but letting full-speed functioning alongside non-urban component parts of the landing track. Original programmes called for finishing the extension by 2010, in clip for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo; nevertheless, the Hangzhou extension has been tabled.
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