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Old Nov 29, 2019 | 2:26 am
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Originally Posted by usbusinesstraveller
PVG didn’t open until 1999, and ICN in 2001. UA did fly to SHA (Hongqiao) and GMP (Gimpo) before PVG and ICN opened. My first trip to China included UA on SHA-NRT, and it was very primitive and nowhere like todays SHA or PVG.

The first US-China bilateral air service agreement allowed for a whopping four weekly flights. They were all from the Tokyo fifth freedom hub and were awarded to Pan Am and Northwest. United bought out PA’s Pacific operation in 1986 and took over the China BASA routes. And grew from there.
SHA-T1 (that the international flights use) is just as primitive now as it was in the 90s, but it is far more convenient than PVG.
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