Transit
Map
At present all transit passengers must pass through
immigration before resuming their journey with China
Eastern. This is a government requirement and is
expected to be lifted soon. Please follow the arrows
on the map below to show you through Pudong Airport
to resume your international journey. Click on the
map for more detail.
For onward domestic journeys,
first check which Shanghai airport your domestic
flight departs from (SHA - Shanghai Hongqiao,
PVG - Shanghai Pudong). For Pudong domestic departures,
follow signs on level three. For transfer from
Pudong to Hongqiao, please go to the transfer
counter, pick up a ticket at the transfer desk
and proceed to the free transfer bus. Minimum connection time between the
two airports is three hours - if you have less
than this, you should take a taxi which will be
quicker (cost approx £12).
Shanghai Pudong Airport is a
modern and efficient hub, an ideal place to transit
to your onward journey into China, or onwards to
South-East Asia or Australia. Please visit the Pudong
International Airport website, where you will
find details of facilities such as an hourly hotel,
shops, transport etc.
Overnight Stopover due to non-connecting
flights
Due to scheduling difficulties, some of our flights
have an unavoidable overnight stopover before
connecting with an onward flight (typically on
return from Australia to London). Provided your
travel agent notifies us of the booking and the
need for a stopover a reasonable time before travel,
we will provide you with one night's hotel accommodation
(currently provided at the Ramada
Pudong Airport hotel and the Jin
Li Hua Hotel), transfers to the hotel, and
breakfast. On Check-in at Heathrow, you will be
issued with a transit hotel voucher. Please produce
this when you reach the transit counter at
Shanghai.
In fact, some passengers may find this an ideal
way to break-up an otherwise long and tiring flight.
Australian and Eurozone passport holders are issued
with 48 hours visa-free transit in
Shanghai when flying with China Eastern. All other
foreigners, including British nationals receive
24 hours visa-free transit. Please be aware that
if you have arranged a stopover longer than 24
hours in Shanghai on your return, you must stop
Shanghai immigration from stamping your Visa on
the outbound when you have a short stop in Shanghai.
Otherwise when you re-enter Shanghai on the return
and want to stopover, the visa will have been used
already. |
