Month: June 2026

Yeadon · ~16 km north-west of Leeds · UK · £ Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA) — Airport Guide 2026 Leeds Bradford is Jet2’s headquarters — the airline was founded in Leeds and its administrative base remains on the airfield — and the £100 million terminal expansion that opened in 2026 finally addressed the building that … Read more

~12 km north-west of Newcastle upon Tyne · UK · £ Newcastle International Airport (NCL) — Airport Guide 2026 The Tyne and Wear Metro runs a dedicated Green line from a station inside the terminal to Newcastle Central in around 25 minutes — making NCL one of the most practical regional airports in Britain for … Read more

~13 km south-west of Bristol city centre · UK · £ Bristol Airport (BRS) — Airport Guide 2026 Bristol Airport is the busiest airport in south-west England, handling around ten million passengers a year through a single terminal it is scrambling to expand — a £400 million programme currently in progress — while easyJet runs … Read more

~19 km west of Cardiff · near the village of Rhoose · UK · £ Cardiff Airport (CWL) — Airport Guide 2026 Wizz Air opened a base here in early 2025, had a rough year, and closed it in early 2026. That departure says something honest about Cardiff’s position: a Welsh Government-owned single terminal, 19 … Read more

UK · £ Belfast International Airport (BFS) — Airport Guide 2026 Belfast International is the bigger of the two Belfast airports and the low-cost end of Northern Ireland’s air traffic — easyJet bases aircraft here, Ryanair and the holiday carriers follow, and the whole thing sits at Aldergrove 30 km north-west of the city, which … Read more

~15 km east of Paphos · western Cyprus · EU but not Schengen · € Paphos International Airport (PFO) — Airport Guide 2026 Paphos is Cyprus’s western airport — the leisure end of the island, where Ryanair lands from most of Europe and the UK charter trade comes in for the Kato Paphos resorts — … Read more

~5 km south-west of Larnaca city centre · EU but not Schengen · € Larnaca International Airport – Glafcos Clerides (LCA) — Airport Guide 2026 Cyprus’s main airport has been doing the work of two since 1974, when Nicosia’s closed after the island’s division and never reopened; it now handles close to ten million passengers … Read more

West Ireland · ~25 km from Limerick; Shannon town adjacent · EU but not Schengen · € Shannon Airport (SNN) — Airport Guide 2026 Shannon does one thing no other airport on mainland Europe does: it hosts a US Customs and Border Protection facility, so you clear American immigration in Ireland and step off at … Read more

EU, not Schengen · € Cork Airport (Aerfort Chorcaí) (ORK) — Airport Guide 2026 Ireland’s second-busiest airport runs a single terminal on a hill 8 km south of Cork city — considerably less chaotic than Dublin, and considerably better at handling the traffic it actually has. Quick Reference AirportCork Airport (Aerfort Chorcaí) IATA / ICAOORK … Read more

~6 km south-west of Košice · eastern Slovakia · € Košice International Airport (KSC) — Airport Guide 2026 The biggest change in 2026 is the first scheduled domestic link between Bratislava and Košice — an hour by air in place of the five-plus-hour drive that has long kept eastern Slovakia in its own orbit. Quick … Read more

~9 km north-east of Bratislava city centre · € Bratislava M. R. Štefánik Airport (BTS) — Airport Guide 2026 Bratislava’s airport has always had a split identity — officially the capital of Slovakia’s gateway, operationally the cheapest way into Austria — and in 2025–26 it acquired a third role: a working low-cost hub, with Ryanair’s … Read more

~10 km northeast of Burgas city centre · southern Black Sea coast · € Burgas Airport (BOJ) — Airport Guide 2026 Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast runs from the Romanian border down to Turkey, and Burgas Airport sits roughly in the middle of the interesting part — 10 km from Burgas city, 28 km from Sunny … Read more

~8 km west of Varna · Black Sea coast · € Varna Airport (VAR) — Airport Guide 2026 Varna handled 1.8 million passengers in 2025 — up from 1.5 million the year before — on the back of a Wizz Air base that gained its second aircraft and a summer charter trade that packs Terminal … Read more