Originally Posted by
uanj
HX is not really not bad but they struggle with IRROPS. By the way, be grateful for flying into S1 at PVG, HX used to use a lot of bus gates and it could take a long time for the bus to arrive and then you got packed in like sardines. S1 is faster than those remote bus gates.
I strongly disagree. One of the --often missed-- benefits of bus gates on arrival is that the bus actually brings you to where you need to be in order escape the airport in a semi-timely manner. I don't like the sardine thing either, but the train between S1/S2 and T1/T2 isn't exactly a picnic on this front. In any case, bus gates on arrival are MUCH FASTER than S1.
I can't speak for departures yet, and I must admit that I dislike bus gates on departure. I typically wait for the last bus, which tends to be a minbus with seats for all; this isn't so bad. My main issue is that the waiting areas feel like bus stations.
All that having been said, SHA T1 is vastly superior to PVG, and this was even the case prior to the renovation.