I already have Tokyo Narita, Incheon and Hong Kong International. Looking to broaden my flight options around this area. I’ll take any recommendation.
My fav airliners are Korean Air and China Airlines because they’re member of Skyteam, BUT I also occasionally fly Japan Airlines or Cathay Pacific.
Changi, Suvarnabhumi, Kai Tak, Kuala Lumpur are all great
Oh thanks, I can’t believe I hadn’t even considered Singapore yet. That’s a great suggestion.
The others as well. Cheers. Hopefully a nice sale soon.
What would be a nice airport in China with many routes? There’re so many there.
There is a Manila Scenery that I love. been in and out of there, many many times.
For China: ZSPD Shanghai Pudong and ZBAA Beijing Capital. Both are highly recommended, though personally I’d go for ZSPD first. Perhaps a bit redundant because you already have VHHH, but ZGGG Guangzhou is also another excellent one. Can’t go wrong with WFSS airports.
For Taiwan there’s RCTP Taipei Taoyuan, RCSS Taipei Songshan, and RCKH Kaohsiung, all by Aco Design Studio. RCSS is not the main airport or very heavily used but has a really cool approach, RCKH also has a cool approach.
For Japan: RJBB Osaka Kansai by Technobrain. There are also a ton of great freeware airports for Japan, so it’s easy to build up a dense network of airports for short routes, but with many international options as well.
You can also look up WADD Bali Intl by Aerosoft in Indonesia, great medium-sized airport with superb details, and you can fly to just about anywhere in range. Dash-8, 737, A320, A350 and 787 all fly to this lovely small island, going as far as Sydney and as near as Jakarta.
100% agree. Oddly, they’re far better than their marketing images make them look. I have all of them except Nanjing and Guangzhou (both of which I’ll likely add when they’re next discounted). I bought ZSPD a couple of weeks before I actually flew there in reality and was amazed how true-to-life WFSS’ work is — even down to the orange baggage dollies and unique lighting used on elevated sections of landside road. My only minor gripe with them is the night-lighting can look a bit garish and repetitive, but this is most relevant to VHHH and ZSSS. I actually think ZSSS is their least detailed project — which is strange as it’s their latest — but none of their airports are poor. For me, ZSPD is definitely their standout scenery.
MK Studios’ Naha is superb and partners well with Narita and the numerous freeware airports. Best of the freeware bunch are Osaka Itami (https://flightsim.to/file/51064/osaka-intl-airport-japan) and Ishigaki (https://flightsim.to/file/67482/roig-new-ishigaki-airport-japan). Both are payware quality and are probably my two favourite freeware airports for the sim.
Technobrain’s Kansai is apparently good but I hear it’s showing its age a bit now. Don’t think it’s been updated in a long time. They are releasing Haneda quite soon and that does look better.
I also hear positive things about ACO’s Taiwanese airports but, again, they’re old and I’m not sure how frequent updates are. They also feature default Asobo jetways, which really puts me off.
I have Singapore, by Cloudsurf. There’s another version by Imaginesim, which is newer, but it’s more expensive. Both have flaws but the Cloudsurf seems to be the more highly-regarded one, overall.
Siamflight’s Thai airports get decent reviews but they always look a little sterile for my liking. But the level of detail is good and you usually get plenty of surrounding POIs to enhance the approaches. VTBS looks particularly nice but it’s pricey, even in sales.
I’ve often looked at Samscene’s airports but have never bought one. I like their city packs but their airports look sub-par. Still, they’re pretty inexpensive so I suppose it depends how much you want what they’re offering. Xiamen and Sanya look quite nice, admittedly.
I see The Secret Studio’s work has been mentioned. I don’t own any but a friend who does wasn’t particularly impressed with Kuala Lumpur.
Unfortunately, there’s far less choice for Asia than for Europe and North America, so there’s perhaps the need to be less fussy since there are no alternative options for most airports. If you want Kuala Lumpur, for example, you’re stuck with The Secret Studio.
If you fly as far west as Bangladesh, Final Approach Design Studio offers Dhaka and Sylhet — both really nice airports.
There are of course many more Asian airports available but most of them are lacking in quality. Some people don’t mind more rudimentary airports but I like mine as realistic as possible.
I’m always amazed at how many airports you’ve bought. You’re like the forum tester for premium airports. Thank you!
And to everyone thanks ad well, great suggestions can’t wait to dive into them in the weekend.
I am surprised RKSI by PacSim wasn’t mentioned since Korean Airlines was a fave. It is an absolute must have if you fly KAL :). There is only one but it is the best.
I concur about all WFScenery. Expensive but hard to beat by anyone. I am amazed that they get access to so much detail considering the Country.
VTBS is anything but bland. The night lighting is probably the best I have seen in 2020 at least. Stunning from start to finish. SiamFlight is also very good at reacting to reports. I reported about a mistake with the Tower for BATC. Fixed within a week. I am certainly getting Chiang Mai and Phuket in near future.
Lets not forget RPLL by Cloudsurf too. Soon version 2.0 from what they said to me. Kuala Lumpur is also a stunning airport and affordable as well.
THen the best of all. Many of the Japanese airports are freeware and payware quality (from .to). Some of them are better than eg the Vietnamese payware airports. I would put all of them in my Japan Linker folder.
What else? There is a pretty good Yangon freeware too. Plus some Indian that are good (Mumbai).
VirtualAirlinePilot has some very indepht reviews of most of these Airports. It’s almost like he reviews every brick in the Airport. Long but you really get the full analysis.
Agreed: everything in your post.
RKSI from Pacsim is indeed excellent. One thing that’s interesting about it is how well optimized it is. Despite the huge install size, it seems to run better than the excellent WFSS airports, at least for me. It’s also a great location: short flights to Shanghai, Beijing, Osaka and Tokyo.
I guess PacSim Incheon wasn’t mentioned because in my original post I mentioned I already have it. 
I love it.
Thank you for the other suggestions! Very happy with those and I will check them out!
I’d like to add Pacsim’s Incheon but they rarely update their products, so it’s anyone’s guess as to whether there’ll be a version for 2024. That particular scenery also appears to use modified Asobo jetways (it’s quite old now), which really puts me off.
Since we’ve no quality expectations from the OP, there are tons of airports one could recommend in Asia, but I think only a small number are premium quality. My recommendations, therefore, were somewhat biased, in that I only suggested the best quality airports.
Having heard nothing but positive feedback re Siamflight’s VTBS, I am once again tempted to buy it when it’s next discounted. Their new Phuket looks nice, too.
Downside of only reading the executive summary ;).
Yes Incheon is not updated so often but I have found no outstanding issues either. Seems to work in 2024 so far too (minus new stuff).
I am sure they will update, it is just a massive Airport.
Cloudsurf is busy updating Manilla, 2.0 even.
Still. The Japanese freeware Airports more than match up against many payware Airports. Including in Europe.
The two I mentioned are certainly payware quality, but — with all due respect to those who offer their fantastic work for free — the very best freeware can’t match the very best payware. That said, I’ve seen far worse payware airports than Itami and Ishigaki.
I just watched some videos of Secret Studio’s Kuala Lumpur. I must say, it’s not (or certainly doesn’t look) in the same league as the likes of WFSS, Siamflight, MK Studios, FADS and Drzewiecki.
I’m surprised no one has mentioned Fly2High as they offer a few Far Eastern airports (namely in Korea and Japan). However I recently bought two of their US airports and I can’t really recommend them. There’s potential but some of the work is extremely sloppy, a lot is left to defalt satellite ground imagery, and there’s zero modelling outside the perimeter fence.
Not the best no but the ones from kaze certainly matches at lest the average payware. Certainly stuff from DominicDesignteam/F2H. They should pay to have People use their Airports :D.
We need someone serious to take on the Vietnamese ones. SiamFlight perhaps?
I would still say WMKK is a must have. It is a very important hub, even more so with upcoming 350. The Airport itself is a bit blocky in real life so not sure it can be done much better. Still great for price.
Here is a very indepht review.
I now have more than 30 Asian airports and can largely confirm the opinions expressed here. In my opinion, the most beautiful East Asian airports are made by WFScenery, SiamFlight and Final Approach Simulations. There are other airports such as Seoul Incheon, Tokyo Narita, Manila, Tapei Taoyuan, Naha and Bali, which I also like very much. I only have Jeju from Fly2High in Asia. However, I like Jeju better than their American airports such as Jacksonville or Fresno, which I also own.
Jakarta from Binersim has not yet been mentioned here. This airport does not quite have the quality of WFScenery, FAS or SiamFlight, but I can also recommend it. The ground and building textures are of good quality and the airport has a nice atmosphere with sufficient ground traffic.
The ground and building textures are the reason why I like Kuala Lumpur less. Especially the aprons, taxiways and runways look far too clean, almost like standard Asobo textures. The building textures are also too low-resolution and don’t look very realistic. This can be seen clearly in the VirtualAirlinePilot video.
This is exactly the impression I get from the videos.
Personally, I have a very rigid list of developers whose products I will not hesitate to buy. I will look outside that list if there’s an airport I really want (and it’s of a reasonable standard) but, typically, I’m far more happy to buy a quality airport I’m not familiar with or don’t need than a poor airport I know well. The beauty of this approach is that it coaxes you into flying in new and often stunning territory you otherwise likely wouldn’t experience.
Default Asobo jetways shouldn’t exist in third-party scenery in 2024/2025. There are many devs whose early work featured them but nearly all have now replaced them with custom models. I think even Secret Studio’s KL has custom jetways?
Going off on a bit of a tangent here but there seems a culture in the MSFS community of not being too critical of developers’ work. But we as customers pay for this work, and it’s easy to argue that devs will never improve if no one offers criticism. The underlying thinking is that all devs should be encouraged (which I agree with) — but even quite brutal criticism made respectfully should be a galvanising force. There seems to exist the notion that developers with potential will quit in the face of overwhelming criticism but if that’s the case, they’re probably not worth dealing with anyway.
A good developer will take on board negative customer feedback, and make the necessary improvements.
Remember that KL was freeware at first. So this is a work in progress. Airport is massive. The Airport gets updates now and then. Maybe they are working on a 2.0 as well?
I only wished those developers could say if the scenery is BATC compatible.
Nothing worse than seeing an AI plane land and then disappear or doesn’t takeoff because there’s no taxiways connecting to the runway…
I have used BATC on all the Airports I mentioned without issues. I once missed a few approaches on RPLL due to having too old charts but other than that, works fine.