Shanghai Pudong International Airport (IATA: PVG, ICAO: ZSPD) is the primary international airport serving Shanghai, China, and the busiest airport in mainland China. Located approximately 30 kilometers east of the city centre in the Pudong district, the airport opened on October 1, 1999 and was built on reclaimed coastal land.
PVG is the main hub for China Eastern Airlines and its subsidiary Shanghai Airlines, and a major international hub for the SkyTeam alliance. The airport is the world’s second-busiest cargo airport and ranks as the fifth-busiest airport globally by passenger traffic. Together with Hongqiao International Airport (SHA), PVG forms Shanghai’s two-airport system, which handles well over 130 million passengers annually.
In 2025, Shanghai Pudong International Airport served 85.0 million passengers, with more than 35 million international passengers — the largest international flow in mainland China. The airport operates two main terminals (Terminal 1 and Terminal 2) plus the S1/S2 satellite concourse, the largest in the world, connected by an underground people mover. Four parallel runways handle one of the densest widebody operations on the planet.
The airport is currently undergoing a fourth-phase expansion centred on a new Terminal 3 designed for 50 million passengers, targeting a total capacity of 130 million annual passengers by around 2030. A maglev train has linked the airport to the city at speeds of up to 430 km/h since 2004.