This Day, That Year
China Daily | Updated: 2015-09-17 07:48
Item from China Daily on Sept 17, 1999: An airfield guard waits near a Boeing 767 from Shanghai Airlines, which flew 260 passengers to Kunming in Yunnan province yesterday during the maiden flight from the new Pudong International Airport.
The airport's opening marks Shanghai as the first Chinese city to have two civilian airports. The other facility is Hongqiao International Airport.
The new airport is expected to handle 126,000 flights, 20 million passengers and 750,000 tons of cargo annually.
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