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Jinnah International Airport sits 12 km east of central Karachi in the Malir district, and handled 6.71 million passengers in fiscal year 2024-25 — Pakistan’s busiest airport and the main aviation hub for the country’s southern economy. Operated by the Pakistan Airports Authority (PAA), with privatisation discussions ongoing. The 2026 operational headline is the visa change: Pakistan suspended both visa-on-arrival and visa-prior-to-arrival programs from 1 January 2026 — everyone…

Muscat International Airport sits 30 km west of central Muscat in the Seeb area, and handled 12.9 million passengers in 2024 (+2% YoY); 2025 traffic dipped in Q1 (-8% regional context) then recovered to +12% YoY in October. The current Foster + Partners-style new terminal opened March 2018, replacing the older T1 with a 580,000 m² complex topped by a domed-glass-roof concourse. Oman Air is the flag carrier and hub…

Queen Alia International Airport sits 32 km south of central Amman in the desert plateau, and handled 8.8 million passengers in 2024 (-4.4% YoY because of regional tensions); January-October 2025 recovered to 8.14M (+9% YoY). Operated by Airport International Group (AIG) under a 25-year BOT concession from 2007, with the current Foster + Partners-designed terminal opened 2013. Royal Jordanian is the hub flag carrier with recent route expansion (Casablanca, AlUla,…

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport sits 17 km northeast of central Kolkata in Dum Dum, and handled 21.2 million passengers in calendar-year 2024 (+9% YoY) — Eastern India’s busiest. Operated by the Airports Authority of India (AAI), the integrated terminal complex hosts IndiGo and Air India as the dominant carriers plus Akasa, SpiceJet, and an international slate covering Dhaka, Dubai, Doha, Singapore, Bangkok, Phuket and Kathmandu. The defining…

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport sits 9 km north of central Ahmedabad in Hansol, and handled a record 13.34 million passengers in FY 2024-25 (+14.8% YoY) — India’s #7 busiest airport, Gujarat’s busiest. Operated by Adani Airports since 2020 (the first private operator to take over an Airports Authority of India facility). T1 (domestic) and T2 (international). From 29 March 2026, Air India and Air India Express moved from T1…

Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport sits ~5 miles southwest of downtown Anchorage, named in 2000 after the long-serving Alaska Senator. Over 5.5 million passengers in 2024; Alaska Airlines is the dominant carrier (one of its five hubs, ~37,000 flights operated to/from ANC in 2024). New nonstops launched recently to New York, Washington DC, San Diego and Detroit. The defining ANC fact for global aviation: this is the busiest cargo airport…

Roland Garros Airport sits 10 km east of Saint-Denis in Sainte-Marie, on the north coast of La Réunion, and set its all-time record of 2,764,811 passengers in 2025 (+4% YoY). La Réunion is a French overseas department (DOM-974) — full part of the French Republic and the EU, BUT explicitly NOT part of the Schengen Area. The practical result: the Schengen visa…

Svalbard Airport sits 3 km northwest of Longyearbyen on the Adventdalen flatland, latitude 78°N — the world’s northernmost commercial airport with scheduled service. Around 200,000 passengers in 2025. SAS operates ~73% of departures, Norwegian Air Shuttle covers the rest; some SAS flights make a Tromsø (TOS) stop, Norwegian tends to fly direct from Oslo (OSL). The 1h 40m Tromsø — LYR hop is the shortest leg into the Arctic from…

Tivat Airport sits 3 km southeast of Tivat town on the Bay of Kotor coast, 9 km from Kotor old town and ~22 km from Budva. It is Montenegro’s coastal-leisure aviation gateway: strongly seasonal — 80% of all traffic is handled May-September, with most routes running April-October. Air Serbia leads by departure count (29 weekly), easyJet is second (and grew 80% from the UK market in 2024). British Airways and…

Podgorica Airport sits 11 km south of Podgorica city centre in Golubovci, and handled an all-time record 1.76 million passengers in 2024. The defining 2026 development: Wizz Air opened a Podgorica base in March 2026 with two Airbus A321neo aircraft, 14 new routes and over 1 million extra annual seats — making Wizz the largest carrier by capacity ahead of Air Montenegro, Ryanair, and Turkish. Montenegro is NOT in Schengen…

Zagreb Franjo Tuđman Airport sits 17 km southeast of central Zagreb in Velika Gorica, and set its all-time passenger record of 4.72 million in 2025, up 30% on the 2019 pre-pandemic benchmark. Single integrated terminal opened March 2017 (replacing the 1960s original). Croatia Airlines is the hub flag carrier; Ryanair established a Zagreb base in 2024 with 22 routes. Croatia joined both Schengen AND the Eurozone on the same day…

Thessaloniki “Makedonia” Airport sits 13 km southeast of central Thessaloniki in Mikra/Thermi, and set its all-time passenger record of 7.98 million in 2025 (+8.1% year-on-year, 15.8% above the 2019 pre-pandemic peak). The recent €100M Fraport Greece rebuild doubled terminal space via a new 34,000 m² wing linked to the original by skyway bridges. Aegean operates ~1/3 of departures (31 destinations); Ryanair leads by route count with 36. Bus 78 runs…

Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport sits 18 km west of central Belgrade in Surčin, and set its all-time passenger record of 8.91 million in 2025 (+6.5% year-on-year). Operated under a 25-year concession by VINCI Airports since March 2018 (€730M investment plan), it is Air Serbia’s main hub and Wizz Air’s Balkan base. Serbia is NOT in Schengen and NOT in the EU (candidate status, accession talks ongoing) — so the EU…