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Airport

A record of airports I have visited. This is not a serious rating system; it is more like a set of subjective impressions about routes, waiting areas, food, views, transportation, and memorable details.

Impression Lenses

Flow Waiting Food Transport Views Memory

Airport Notes

Domestic Airports

Mainland China

PVG

Shanghai Pudong International Airport

Shanghai · 2026 · Domestic airport

Honestly, I really like PVG, especially the S1/S2 south satellite concourses built in 2019. I have not departed from the satellite concourse many times, but my most recent departure was from S2. It connects directly to T2, and the isolated waiting area immediately reminded me of SIN: clean, quiet, and full of seats. It felt much better than S1 from my last HKG flight. PVG T1 is MU's home, more precisely the base for MU and many SkyTeam airlines, while T2 serves most other domestic airlines, Star Alliance, and Oneworld. Although there are many negative comments online saying PVG is worse than SHA, I personally think PVG's waiting experience is quite good. I will probably often go From PVG To World in the future. Every time I arrive at Pudong, I feel a grand sense of narrative, as if the world is right in front of me. This place has witnessed too many last meetings and too many first departures. Emotionally, I give it a strong score. By the way, I call Pudong an avgeek paradise, but why block that classic perfect plane-spotting position?

South satellite concourse Good waiting experience From PVG To World

CKG

Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport

Chongqing · 2026 · Domestic airport

I really have to complain about Jiangbei Airport. Among domestic airports I have visited, it may be the strangest one. I do not know whether this is related to the unusual terrain of the mountain city. After getting off Metro Line 10, I walked just a few steps and reached security. The check-in counters are right behind the security checkpoint, and I barely saw many counters. This flight departed from T3B, the satellite concourse of Jiangbei Airport. I heard T2 is already half-abandoned. The shuttle from T3A to T3B arrives only after a long wait and is crowded, while the T3B satellite concourse feels extremely deserted, with many shops under renovation and very few people. But after three days of traveling, I had already seen Chongqing's weaker economy, so it did not feel that strange. One thing worth mentioning is that Chongqing is the only city in mainland China with Ya Kun. The Suzhou branch has closed. Last time in Singapore, I missed soy milk coffee before leaving, which was a pity. This time I tasted it at the junction of gates K and L in T3B at Jiangbei Airport. It was good. I chose Set A. The price was exactly the same as in Singapore.

Strange flow T3B satellite concourse Ya Kun

NKG

Nanjing Lukou International Airport

Nanjing · 2026 · Domestic airport

Great. No further words needed. Nanjing is the city where I lived for 18 years, and NKG is undoubtedly the airport where I have taken off and landed the most, probably nearly 30 times. Before the pandemic, NKG was lively and glorious. It once had wonderful intercontinental routes such as NKG-LAX and NKG-YVR. After the pandemic, NKG declined, with PVG and SHA siphoning away much passenger flow, and international routes became painfully few. The recently opened NKG-CDG route, operated by MU's 773, is decent, but still insignificant. The only regularly based widebodies are small widebodies such as Scoot's 787 and Cathay's A330. Seeing 350/747/380 there is basically a fantasy. After entering university, I also chose to depart from PVG more often, and NKG more often became my arrival airport. Wherever one goes, one eventually needs to go home. NKG will always be a very special airport in my heart, and I hope it gets better and better.

Hometown Few international routes Few widebodies

SHA

Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport

Shanghai · 2026 · Domestic airport

I am not very familiar with SHA. Most of the time I take the fastest high-speed train back to Nanjing from Hongqiao Railway Station, and I have only flown from SHA once. Most of the time I still choose PVG. But subjectively, SHA is indeed a highly efficient airport. The distance from security to the gate is famously short, and the waiting area is spacious. One especially notable thing is that at SHA you can occasionally encounter the famous "Queen of the Skies", CA's 747-400 or 747-800. The rare time I departed from SHA was actually because I wanted to take a 747 to PEK, but unfortunately there was an aircraft change, and I was forced to sit on the same 773 as a certain Jiaxing elderly tour group. Also, the Queen of the Skies has already served for more than twenty years and is probably not far from retirement. Other airlines still operating 747s around the world are in similar situations. I really hope I can take a 747 again in my lifetime, even if it is a 747-800.

Efficiency Queen of the Skies

International / Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan Airports

International, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan

No international / Hong Kong, Macau, or Taiwan airport records yet.