Month: June 2026

~14 km east of north Nicosia (Lefkoşa) · Northern Cyprus · TRNC entry on a separate · TRY Ercan International Airport (ECN) — Airport Guide 2026 The new terminal that opened on 20 July 2023 — capacity roughly 10 million passengers a year — is now the largest airport building on Cyprus, and every flight … Read more

Vágar island; ~45 km west of Tórshavn via the Vágatunnilin sub-sea tunnel · Kingdom of Denmark, outs · DKK Vágar Airport (FAE) — Airport Guide 2026 Since March 2026, travellers holding a Danish or Schengen residence permit no longer need a separate Faroese visa — the most practical change to hit FAE in years, affecting … Read more

Kangerlussuaq settlement · central-west Greenland · Kingdom of Denmark, but · DKK Kangerlussuaq Airport (Søndre Strømfjord) (SFJ) — Airport Guide 2026 Nuuk’s rebuilt airport opened in November 2024 with a runway long enough for jets, absorbed Greenland’s main international traffic, and left Kangerlussuaq with one thing it has always been genuinely good at: sitting 37 … Read more

São Pedro; ~5 km to Mindelo · 61 nationalities visa · CVE Cesária Évora Airport (VXE) — Airport Guide 2026 São Vicente’s airport is named after the Mindelo-born singer who put morna on the world stage — and unlike the resort-gateway airports at Sal and Boa Vista, VXE points at a working port town whose … Read more

Near Rabil; ~5 km to Sal Rei · 61 nationalities visa · CVE Aristides Pereira International Airport (BVC) — Airport Guide 2026 Boa Vista’s sole airport is almost entirely a charter terminal: TUI and its national arms move the bulk of passengers, and the 2026 Cape Verde entry changes — mandatory EASE pre-registration, a doubled … Read more

Beside Espargos · central Sal; ~18 km to Santa Maria · Double TSA if not pre · CVE Amílcar Cabral International Airport (SID) — Airport Guide 2026 Sal’s airport predates its tourist economy by decades — a mid-Atlantic refuelling stop in the propeller era, used by airlines that needed a landfall between Europe, the Americas, … Read more

Babeldaob island · Palau — ~6 km from Koror across the bridge · Palauan immigration · USD Roman Tmetuchl International Airport (ROR) — Airport Guide 2026 Palau runs one international airport — ROR on Babeldaob — and the country has built an entry system unlike anywhere else in the Pacific: a signed eco-pledge stamped in … Read more

Northern edge of São Tomé city · São Tomé and Príncipe · STN São Tomé International Airport (TMS) — Airport Guide 2026 São Tomé International is the only air entry point to one of the world’s least-visited sovereign states — a two-island nation of roughly 230,000 people sitting on the Equator in the Gulf of … Read more

South shore of the Samaná peninsula · north-eastern Dominican Republic · DOP Samaná El Catey International Airport (AZS) — Airport Guide 2026 El Catey is a seasonal charter airport on the south shore of the Samaná peninsula — it closes for roughly five months every year, a fact that distinguishes it from almost every other … Read more

Colombia; visa · COP Simón Bolívar International Airport, Santa Marta (SMR) — Airport Guide 2026 Santa Marta’s airport sits between a runway and the Caribbean Sea — physically on the coast, 16 km south-west of the city — and Colombia’s oldest continuously occupied Spanish settlement uses it as the arrival point for Tayrona, the Sierra … Read more

A few kilometres north of central Belém · Pará, eastern Brazil · EU/UK: visa · BRL Belém Val de Cães International Airport (BEL) — Airport Guide 2026 Val de Cães emerged from 2025 with BRL 470 million of new concrete and an enlarged terminal, the direct result of Belém hosting COP30 in November 2025 — … Read more