Shanghai Pudong International Airport

Airports sitting under major migration routes see sharp seasonal spikes.

A 2026 study of Shanghai Pudong International Airport looked at 1,760 strike incidents between 2014 and 2024.

84.5% involved migratory birds.

That's a striking number.

A journey home bereft of pleasure.

Pudong Airport lacks any leisure.

Seven hours at the gate was spent before ATC did relent and permit a foreign flight to leave, delayed because they shall deceive.

and tell you that the plane is broken, but surely they do be a-jokin'.

We see the e-commerce gateways being heavily impacted.

But in less so, we see, for example, PVG in Hong Kong remains strong, even though they see some reductions across the board as well.

Yeah, it's quite interesting because I was speaking to Liège Airport.

And before I went to this event, we were kind of looking at how different airports were collecting the revenues.

So we decided to stay near the resort around 15 to 20 minutes away.

Yeah, we arrived at Pudong Airport and we had to kind of immediately make our way through China, which is completely different from any other country because China has all its own apps.

There are ways to use your own, for example, WhatsApp, but there's, for example, no way to use Google Maps.

So we used all the tips and tricks that we found.

Why not? But they were making simple pre-flight mistakes, having trouble focusing, staying on task, and they called out fatigued.

And your PSAT had brought this up during the build, saying, "This layover was too short." Other examples are, say, PVG delays, or morning turns through or to Grand Junction.

Again, you do not need to call out fatigue to submit a fatigue report.

And remind pilots again what HIBUNA means.

And sometimes the deadhead is much harder than operating, especially when dealing with the CIQ procedures.

Example, trip 190, 20 September coming up.

Charles de Gaulle to Guangzhou, 12-hour flight, 17 off, then deadhead on China Air to Shanghai, 28 hours off, and then two legs out of PVG, which never has delays.

Raise your hand if you think that's smart.

Mm.

From when you land at the airport, the digital experience of it's a seamless process now with taking your fingerprints and visa issuance, and you, you get on the maglev train from Shanghai Pudong Airport into the center, and in 10 minutes or whatever that mind-boggling speed is you're going, and how you pay, how do you order, you know, through DD app or whatever, even as a non-resident of China.

Mm-hmm.

And I've lived four years in China, you know.