Month: May 2026

Cambridge · Tasmania — 17 km northeast of Hobart CBD · None · AUD Hobart International Airport (HBA) — Airport Guide 2026 The Qantas Club closes on 8 June 2026 — not for a quick refresh, but as part of a full terminal doubling that runs to early 2028 — and HBA has no other … Read more

New Zealand citizens onl · AUD Cairns International Airport (CNS) — Airport Guide 2026 Cairns Airport runs two terminals in separate buildings 7 km north of the CBD waterfront, and from 1 July 2026 the lounge landscape shifts again: Qantas Platinum/Gold and Qantas Club members lose access to any lounge when travelling on international Jetstar … Read more

Rongotai isthmus · 5.5 km southeast of the CBD · NZD Wellington International Airport (WLG) — Airport Guide 2026 Wellington’s airport charges visa-waiver visitors NZD 117 in pre-travel paperwork before they’ve set foot on the plane — and then delivers one of the more memorable landings in commercial aviation once they do. Quick Reference AirportWellington … Read more

NZD Christchurch International Airport (CHC) — Airport Guide 2026 The South Island’s main international gateway completed a 20-month terminal transformation on 5 May 2026 — the first major overhaul since the post-earthquake rebuild opened in April 2013 — and is about to add its first non-stop Boeing 787 routes to Singapore, Tokyo and Perth later … Read more

~16 km west of central Baghdad · Federal e · IQD Baghdad International Airport (BGW) — Airport Guide 2026 Iraq’s main international airport sits roughly 16 km west of central Baghdad, at the end of a road that spent a decade as one of the most targeted stretches of tarmac on earth — and whose … Read more

Mashhad · Razavi Khorasan, Iran · Visa on arrival or e · IRR Mashhad Shahid Hasheminejad International Airport (MHD) — Airport Guide 2026 Mashhad’s airport reopened to international traffic on 21 April 2026, 52 days after conflict with Israel and the United States closed every Iranian airport simultaneously — the fact that makes confirming your … Read more

Free 1 · LBP Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport (BEY) — Airport Guide 2026 Lebanon’s only international airport sits 9 km south of downtown Beirut, wedged into the coastal flat of the southern suburbs — the same neighbourhoods, collectively called Dahiyeh, that appear in airstrike reports. The airport has stayed open through every escalation since late … Read more

Khwaja Rawash · northeast Kabul; ~5 km to central districts · Required; March 2026 sin · AFN Kabul International Airport (KBL) — Airport Guide 2026 The US, UK, Canada and Australia all rate Afghanistan at their highest-level travel advisory — Do Not Travel, advise against all travel — and neither the US nor UK embassy … Read more

TRY Ankara Esenboğa International Airport (ESB) — Airport Guide 2026 Ankara is Türkiye’s capital but not its aviation hub — roughly three in four passengers here fly domestically, and the international schedule is thin enough that if you’re connecting onward to anywhere outside Türkiye, you’re almost certainly doing it through Istanbul. Quick Reference AirportAnkara Esenboğa … Read more

UAE Sharjah International Airport (SHJ) — Airport Guide 2026 Air Arabia launched twice-daily nonstop service between Sharjah and London Gatwick on 29 March 2026, flown by the Airbus A321neo LR in a 215-seat all-economy configuration — a direct statement that low-cost long-haul out of SHJ is no longer experimental. Quick Reference IATA / ICAOSHJ / … Read more

~5.5 km northeast of central Salalah · Ar Rubat Street, Dhofar Governorate, Oman · OMR Salalah International Airport (SLL) — Airport Guide 2026 Etihad’s first-ever Abu Dhabi–Salalah service launched on 21 May 2026, which tells you everything about what kind of airport this is for most of the year: quiet enough that one of the … Read more

Tourist e · SAR Abha International Airport (AHB) — Airport Guide 2026 On 29 March 2026, flynas made Abha its fifth operating base, adding international routes to Kuwait City and Trabzon — which is a more consequential upgrade than the 10,500-square-metre terminal that will carry all of it until at least 2028. Quick Reference DetailValue … Read more

SAR King Fahd International Airport (DMM) — Airport Guide 2026 King Fahd International holds the Guinness record for the world’s largest airport by land area — 780 km² of Eastern Province desert — and its single public terminal is a calm, well-spaced building that bears almost no relation to that statistic. Quick Reference IATA / … Read more

Mattala · 18 km north of Hambantota, Southern Province · LKR Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport (HRI) — Airport Guide 2026 Forbes labelled it “the world’s emptiest international airport” in 2016. The terminal was designed for a million passengers a year, handled 25,767 in 2021, and nothing since has meaningfully closed that gap — which is … Read more

15d USD 30 / 30d USD 50 · NPR Pokhara International Airport (PKR) — Airport Guide 2026 Pokhara International opened on 1 January 2023 with a 10,000 m² international terminal and has since established itself as exactly what the geography always demanded: a domestic hop away from Kathmandu and 15 minutes from the Annapurna trailheads, … Read more