As reported in the FCCC newsletter, Shanghai’s Pudong International Airport has the speediest visa checks of any major airport in the world, according to a survey by the Airports Council International (ACI), a trade representative of the world’s airports. Terminal 2 of Pudong International Airport has 47 channels and can deal with 70 to 90 passengers a minute. Almost 70,000 passengers use the airport daily, with a record high of 95,000. Second and third in the ranking are Seoul Incheon International Airport and Beijing Capital International Airport. China has two more airports in the top 10 list. Longjia International Airport in Changchun, capital of Jilin province, ranked fifth, followed by Meilan International Airport in Haikou, capital of Hainan. Every quarter, ACI asks a survey institution to determine and review about 100 airports around the world, in a survey based on 36 standards, such as facilities and service.
Now, the article does not mention U.S. airports, I guess those must be miserably down the list. Arriving in the U.S. is often a poor experience with long waiting for immigration and utterly annoying customs people. Welcome to China, less so to the U.S.