Month: June 2026

Akrotiri peninsula · ~14 km northeast of Chania · € Chania International Airport “Ioannis Daskalogiannis” (CHQ) — Airport Guide 2026 Western Crete’s only airport handles around 2 million passengers a year — the island’s second after Heraklion, sixth-busiest in Greece — but roughly a third of that traffic arrives in just two months: July and … Read more

~10–11 km west of Kalamata · Messenia, Peloponnese · € Kalamata International Airport “Capt. Vassilis Constantakopoulos” (KLX) — Airport Guide 2026 A new 40-year Fraport Greece concession approved in 2026 is the biggest thing to happen to this small seasonal airport in decades — and it arrives just as the biometric EES border goes live, … Read more

€ Corfu International Airport “Ioannis Kapodistrias” (CFU) — Airport Guide 2026 The runway at Corfu juts out into the Halikiopoulos lagoon and points straight at Pontikonisi — the islet-monastery that appears on every Corfu postcard — which is why the approach is one of the most scenic in Greece and why the plane-spotters’ headland at … Read more

~5 km east of Heraklion city · central Crete · € Heraklion International Airport “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) — Airport Guide 2026 One thing to keep on your radar for the years ahead: Heraklion is due to be replaced by a new airport at Kasteli, about 35 km inland, which was past 65% complete in late … Read more

€ Friedrichshafen Airport (FDH) — Airport Guide 2026 Friedrichshafen airport — officially the Bodensee-Airport — handled around 227,000 passengers last year on a schedule that shrank again when Lufthansa ended its Frankfurt link in March 2024, and the City of Friedrichshafen is now covering operating losses to keep it running. Quick Reference IATA / ICAOFDH … Read more

~13 km south of Stuttgart · Filder plateau · € Stuttgart Airport (STR) — Airport Guide 2026 Stuttgart Airport sits 13 km south of the city on the Filder plateau, adjacent to the trade-fair grounds and directly above its own S-Bahn station — and it is, in a fairly direct sense, the home airport of … Read more

Swabia/Bavaria border; ~3 km from Memmingen town · ~111 km from Munich · € Allgäu Airport Memmingen (FMM) — Airport Guide 2026 Memmingen handled over 3.2 million passengers in 2024 — a record — and Ryanair is so committed to it that the carrier is basing five Boeing 737s here from December 2025, a move … Read more

Rheinmünster — ~15 km to Baden-Baden; ~45 km to Karlsruhe · € Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden Airport (FKB) — Airport Guide 2026 Ryanair anchors its fourth aircraft here as of March 2025, which tells you most of what you need to know about Baden-Airpark: a low-cost operation at the edge of the Black Forest, 15 km from one … Read more

~15 km southeast of Cologne city centre · € Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN) — Airport Guide 2026 Cologne Bonn is one of Germany’s few genuinely 24-hour airports — cargo never stops, and Eurowings runs its largest base here alongside Ryanair, serving more than 10 million passengers a year from a site 15 km southeast of … Read more

~11 km north of Hannover · Lower Saxony · € Hannover Airport (HAJ) — Airport Guide 2026 The S-Bahn station sits directly under the terminal building — take the escalator from arrivals and you are on the platform for the 18-minute ride to the central station. That single infrastructure detail separates HAJ from most of … Read more

~5 km southwest of Maó · Menorca, Balearic Islands · € Menorca Airport (MAH) — Airport Guide 2026 Menorca’s airport sits 5 km southwest of Maó, the island’s capital at the head of one of the largest natural harbours in the world, and its operating logic is simple: seasonal (April to October, when more than … Read more

~12 km east of Santiago de Compostela · Galicia · € Santiago de Compostela–Rosalía de Castro Airport (SCQ) — Airport Guide 2026 Ryanair closed its Santiago base in 2025–26 and cut capacity; Vueling absorbed the slack, expanding by roughly 15% and adding Zürich, London Heathrow and Paris — so the airline you actually fly here … Read more

~9 km north of Bilbao · Basque Country · € Bilbao Airport (BIO) — Airport Guide 2026 United’s first transatlantic service touched down at Bilbao in 2025, putting a regional Basque airport on the intercontinental map for the first time. Quick Reference Official nameAeropuerto de Bilbao (Loiu) IATA / ICAOBIO / LEBB Location~9 km north … Read more

~10 km southwest of Alicante city · near Elche · € Alicante–Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC) — Airport Guide 2026 Alicante handled 18.38 million passengers in 2024 — a record — and tracked higher through 2025; easyJet reopened a full base here in 2026, joining Ryanair’s eighteen based aircraft in what is, by passenger volume, … Read more