It certainly did not look first world a few weeks ago when I sat short of 36R for 2 hours and 3 minutes (with both engines running because the Chinese are so freaking paranoid). It did not look like a first world airport a few weeks before that when I sat at the gate, passengers on board, jetway pulled back, for 4 hours and 19 minutes because they changed our departure time due to military activity. And nothing about terminal 2 looks the least bit first world. Having been based in ORD, and having operated out of LGA frequently for a USAirways Express carrier, I would take those two a hundred times before I would take PEK.

MILITARY ACTIVITY ahhh the prelude to a 16 hour duty day. Last week lets see. SZ-PVG-SZ delayed 4 hours due to RESTRICTION, then next day SZ-HZ-SZ 6 hours due to some raindrops!!!!

The level of irony and inefficiency here is truly mind boggling. And how Probe or Domingo can say otherwise now makes me think they are propaganda tools for one of these agencies.