/ KUCINTA SETIA
Distributed to All Press & Travel Professionals
The second international airport of Shanghai, Pudong, needs facelift badly. While seats at the domestic departure gates are sufficient, there are not enough seats at the international gates of the airport. Many passengers have to sit on carpet to wait for boarding, causing traveller congestion at each gate.
Shanghai tourism brochures are available at the area where travellers pick up their check-in baggage. Public information counters can hardly be found at the transit and departure areas. Shops at the airport are not open 24 hours.
The departure and arrival halls of Pudong Terminal 2 are as huge as Changi Airport with ease of access to Terminal 1, Maglev express trains and other public transport for rides to the city centre of Shanghai.
At the airports of Pudong, Qingdao, Chengdu, Kunming, Chongqing, Guiyang, Nanchang and Taichung, hot, warm and water dispensers are prevalent, providing convenience to passengers. The airports of Southeast Asia should consider installing such dispensers for public use.
Airlines such as Qingdao Airlines, AirAsia X, Ethiopian Airlines and Mega Maldives Airlines operate at Pudong Terminal 2.
Date of travel to Pudong from Qingdao : 14 June 2014 with Qingdao Airlines.
Departure from Pudong for Singapore via KLIA2 : 15 June 2014 with AirAsia X and AirAsia Berhad.
Passengers of AirAsia X and AirAsia, please note that boarding passes have to be reprinted at the check-in counters of Pudong Terminal 2 for endorsement even if you have online boarding passes registered with the airlines. Therefore you have to queue again. Kindly disregard the low-cost airlines' instruction on un-necessity to queue at Pudong Terminal 2.
Happy boarding!
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