# airport-recommendations-2026: a directory of proxy providers, generated

> A Chinese-language index of VPN proxy resellers, built as static output from a small Node data pipeline rather than a hand-edited list.

**everett7623/airport-recommendations-2026** — 2026 proxy service ('airport') recommendations: free trials, cost-effectiveness, dedicated lines and pay-as-you-go, with 40+ services tested, updated monthly.

- Repository: https://github.com/everett7623/airport-recommendations-2026
- Website: https://www.vpsknow.com/airport-recommendations
- Stars: 1,436 · Forks: 42
- Language: JavaScript
- License: NOASSERTION
- Published: 2026-10-06 · Updated: 2026-10-06 · Language: en
- Canonical page: https://hysenlabs.com/projects/everett7623-airport-recommendations-2026

## The name means something different in Chinese

The first surprise is that this has nothing to do with aviation. In Chinese internet slang an airport is a business that sells proxy subscriptions, and a subscription link is called an airport link. The word is used everywhere in the ecosystem: the repository's own topics list includes airport, clash, proxy, shadowsocks, v2ray and vpn, and the project description is written entirely in Chinese. If you searched the web for this slug expecting travel rankings you would find the wrong subject, which is worth knowing before reading further. The repository description frames it as a 2026 recommendation list covering free trials, entry level pricing, value picks, premium dedicated lines and pay as you go billing. The homepage points at vpsknow.com, a separate review site, and the repository describes itself as an index and filtering tool that syncs with that site daily.

## The repository is generated output, not a hand written list

The tree shows a small JavaScript project with a data directory, a scripts directory, two README files and a package manifest. Reading the manifest makes the architecture clear. The package is called airport-recommendations-sync, it is marked private, it declares no runtime dependencies, and it requires Node 18 or newer. The scripts reveal a three stage pipeline that runs in order: a sync step pulls data from an Astro site, a generate step writes the documentation, and a validate step checks the JSON and then asks the generator to verify its own output.

```json
{
  "scripts": {
    "sync": "node scripts/sync-from-astro.js",
    "sync:dry": "node scripts/sync-from-astro.js --dry-run",
    "generate": "node scripts/generate-readme.js",
    "sync:full": "node scripts/sync-from-astro.js && node scripts/generate-readme.js",
    "validate": "node scripts/validate-json.js && node scripts/generate-readme.js --check"
  }
}
```

The practical consequence is that the README you read is a build artifact. Editing it by hand does nothing durable, because the next generate run overwrites it. Contributions belong in the data files or in the generator, and the validate script exists to catch a mismatch between the JSON and the rendered page. This is the single most useful thing to understand about the project before judging it, because it explains why the content is so uniform and why provider details change without a human editing each entry.

## How the categories and pricing tables are organised

The page divides providers into buckets that map to how much someone wants to spend and how much risk they will accept. There is a free trial area, an entry level budget group, a balanced value group, a premium group built around dedicated lines, a pay as you go group, and a group of recommendations with no affiliate link. Each provider entry repeats the same fields in a table: the line type, the way you connect, a coupon code, a headline feature, a summary paragraph, a starting price, a star rating and a set of tags. That fixed shape is what makes the page readable at a glance and what lets the generator rebuild it.

Prices are quoted in Chinese yuan and range widely. The cheapest paid entries start around 4.8 or 7 yuan a month for 50GB, budget options sit around 10 to 12 yuan, balanced picks start near 20 yuan, and premium dedicated line plans run from roughly 50 yuan up past 100 yuan a month for 500GB. The free tier entries advertise trial coupons such as a one day 5GB trial and a free plan with a per month option. Because everything is expressed as a starting price, the actual cost at higher traffic or longer commitment is not visible from the table alone.

## What the protocol names actually mean

The line type field is the most information dense column, and decoding it tells you what kind of hardware is behind a provider. VLESS and Hysteria2 show up most often. VLESS is a lightweight protocol that leans on external libraries like XTLS to get better throughput, and Hysteria2 is built on QUIC so it holds up on lossy links where TCP based protocols struggle. Shadowsocks appears as a simpler older option. AnyTLS is a newer addition in the entry level entries, and it is framed as a TLS handshake based protocol.

The premium entries name specific transit routes rather than protocols, and these are the expensive part. IEPL and IPLC refer to leased private lines that a provider buys outright, which is why they cost more and why they are sold as stable for business use. BGP routes are ordinary peering. China Telecom's CN2 GIA and CMIN2 and Unicom's 9929 are transit products sold on the basis of a direct path into China, and they show up in one of the premium entries. A page aimed at a general reader would not distinguish these; here they are the main axis of comparison, and they are the reason one provider starts at 20 yuan and another at 114.

## Risk warnings, discounts and the affiliate question

The repository is unusually direct about the hazards of its own subject. Near the top there is a warning that the industry has a history of providers shutting down or absconding with prepaid balances, that readers should prefer monthly billing over large annual payments, and that they should keep two or three providers as backup. There is a linked blacklist document described as a risk control guide. Individual entries carry similar notes. One warns that a data centre IP range carries elevated risk and recommends a short trial first. Another flags that the exit is a hosting provider address rather than a residential line, and that timezone and WebRTC behaviour need checking. Another entry's own summary says the line varies so much between carriers that paying monthly first is the sensible order of operations.

Against that, nearly every entry carries a coupon code tied to the review site, and every outbound link is a short redirect on a domain the review site controls rather than the provider's real address. The dedicated no affiliate group exists precisely because the author considered that problem worth solving, and it holds the two entries that pay nothing back. The page is not hiding the arrangement. It names the review site, it links to the full write ups there repeatedly, and it separates the clean entries. A reader should still treat the paid entries as advertising with a research veneer, and weigh the discount codes against the fact that the cheapest plans are the ones most likely to disappear without notice.

## Who is maintaining this and how to read it

The project is not archived, has no published releases, and shows a last push on 19 September 2026, so it is an actively worked file rather than a finished publication. It carries 1084 stars, 31 forks and 11 open issues. The repository also includes agent instruction files and a contributing guide alongside the two READMEs, one of which is a simplified version, which fits a project that is largely automated.

For an English reader the practical question is what to do with a page of Chinese-language provider reviews. The category names, prices and protocol fields are the reusable part, and the protocol vocabulary in particular travels well because those names appear in client configuration files whatever language the seller writes in. The summaries themselves, with their references to specific carriers, data centre ranges and single measurements, need translating before they mean much. The most defensible use is to treat the list as a set of leads, confirm the current price and protocol on the provider's own panel, then commit to a month rather than a year. The monthly advice is the most valuable sentence on the page, and it applies to the review site as much as to the providers it ranks.

## Conclusion

What this repository offers is not a proxy client or a network tool but a generated reading list, and it earns its place by being honest about the category it covers. It warns readers that resellers shut down without notice, tells them to pay monthly, to keep two or three providers in reserve, and it separates recommendations that carry an affiliate link from ones that do not. It does not settle which provider is fastest or which route is truly unblocked, because that changes by hour and by line. A sensible first step is the free trial tier, then a month of the cheapest paid tier, while treating every claim on the page as something to confirm on the provider's own dashboard before paying for a year.

## FAQ

### What does the word airport mean in airport-recommendations-2026?

It is Chinese internet slang for a company that sells proxy subscriptions, not anything to do with air travel. The repository's own topic list uses airport alongside clash, proxy, shadowsocks and v2ray, and the description is written entirely in Chinese. It is a directory of VPN resellers, so searching the slug for travel rankings lands on the wrong subject.

### How often is the provider list updated?

The page describes itself as syncing with the review site daily, and a dated entry in the announcements records a sync on 15 September 2026 alongside the removal of two providers that had been delisted. The manifest also offers a dry run script so the sync can be inspected before it writes anything.

### Can I edit the README directly to add or correct a provider?

Editing the README directly is a waste of effort, because the file is generated. The build runs a sync step that pulls from an Astro site, then a generate step that rewrites the documentation, so manual changes are overwritten on the next run. The correct place to change a provider is in the data files or in the generator.

### Is it safe to buy a year of service from one of these providers?

The repository itself advises against it. A warning near the top says the industry has a history of providers shutting down or vanishing with prepaid balances, recommends paying monthly rather than in large annual sums, and suggests keeping two or three providers as backup. Several individual entries repeat the advice to start with a short trial.

## Sources

- [everett7623/airport-recommendations-2026 on GitHub](https://github.com/everett7623/airport-recommendations-2026)
- [Issues](https://github.com/everett7623/airport-recommendations-2026/issues)
- [Project website](https://www.vpsknow.com/airport-recommendations)
- [README](https://github.com/everett7623/airport-recommendations-2026/blob/main/README.md)

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Hysen Labs editorial analysis, written from the project's own repository and release notes. Cite the canonical page: https://hysenlabs.com/projects/everett7623-airport-recommendations-2026