Tight security adds to waiting time

SHANGHAI: This city's Pudong International Airport is well-designed and efficient, and the municipal government is spending hundreds of millions of yuan to upgrade the older Hongqiao Airport used for domestic flights. But getting to these airports has always been time consuming because of traffic congestion.

Now there is an additional chore: long queues at the security check points.

"A last-minute dash to catch a plane to Beijing or Shenzhen has become a thing of the past," 45-year-old investment banker, Hu Jianming, said.