Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport (IATA: SHA, ICAO: ZSSS) is one of two international airports of Shanghai, the largest city by population in China, and a significant airline hub of the country. Hongqiao Airport mainly serves domestic and regional flights, although the airport also serves select international flights (mainly to Seoul–Gimpo, Taipei–Songshan and Tokyo–Haneda). The airport is located near the town of Hongqiao in the outskirts of Changning and Minhang districts, 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) west of downtown, and is closer to the city center than the area's primary international airport, Shanghai–Pudong.
Hongqiao Airport is the corporate headquarters and a major hub for China Eastern Airlines, Shanghai Airlines, and Juneyao Air, as well as a major hub for Spring Airlines. In 2016, Hongqiao Airport handled 40,460,135 passengers, making it the 7th busiest airport in China and the 43rd busiest in the world. By the end of 2011, Hongqiao Airport hosted 22 airlines serving 82 scheduled passenger destinations. Shanghai Hongqiao Airport was also certified with the Skytrax 5-Star Airport Rating for facilities, terminal comfort and cleanliness, shopping, food & beverages, and staff service in 2019.
Hongqiao Airport served as Shanghai's primary airport until the completion of Pudong International Airport on 1 October 1999, when most international flights were gradually moved to Pudong.
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PBR Textures
Animated Jetways.
Dynamic Lights
Manually planed viecles in airport
Real Ground Markings
Animated Airport Train
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This is clearly WFSS' best scenery to date. Superb detail on the buildings with crisp textures, realistic and subtle night-lighting and a very good integration with the surroundings with no flat buildings around the airport.
There's a few errors and negative items that I hope can be fixed:
- The lighting effects for the green and red threshold lights are very much oversized. It seems to be a very old effect that reduces its size in steps when moving closer. But from a bit of distance the green and red bars are way too dominant and unrealistic looking. They need to be changed to look similar to the runway edge lights.
- The glide slope antennas and their equipment shed have been placed at the wrong spot. They are wrongly located next to the localiser antennas instead of next to the touchdown points.
- The real airport is equipped with VDGS devices. This scenery doesn't include any, not even a GSX file to add them.
- The VOR station located on short final for RWY 18L is not included and completely flat on the aerial imagery.
Would be easily five stars if all these items get fixed. I hope that the threshold lights can be fixed as they look completely out of place like from another era.
Finally there is a Hongqiao airport that I can fly to. The airport is beautiful and the frame rate is friendly. Matching the Shanghai cityscape, the scenery is beautiful when you land.