Travel Guides

~13 km east of central Tianjin · Dongli District · 240 · CNY Tianjin Binhai International Airport (TSN) — Airport Guide 2026 Tianjin Binhai handles just under 20 million passengers a year — China’s 26th-busiest airport — and arrives in most foreign itineraries as a transit point or a back-door entry to the Beijing region … Read more

240 · CNY Shenyang Taoxian International Airport (SHE) — Airport Guide 2026 Shenyang Taoxian handled 24.9 million passengers in 2025 — China’s 21st-busiest airport and the dominant hub for Liaoning Province — with China Southern anchoring a dense domestic network and a thin but useful international roster covering Seoul, Tokyo and Moscow. Quick Reference IATA … Read more

~9 km northwest of Dalian city centre · Liaoning Province · 240 · CNY Dalian Zhoushuizi International Airport (DLC) — Airport Guide 2026 Northeast China’s busiest airport sits just 9 km from the city centre — a fact that changes the layover calculus entirely compared with the mega-hubs further south, and makes Dalian one of … Read more

~37 km southeast of Zhengzhou city centre · Henan Province · Chinese visa · 240 · CNY Zhengzhou Xinzheng International Airport (CGO) — Airport Guide 2026 CGO moves roughly 29 million passengers and over a million tonnes of freight a year — the freight is the number that actually defines the place. Zhengzhou Xinzheng is … Read more

Western Shanghai · ~13–18 km from People’s Square · 240 · CNY Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport (SHA) — Airport Guide 2026 The Airport Link Line, which opened 27 December 2024, slashed the Hongqiao-to-Pudong run from a 90-minute metro crawl to under 40 minutes — the first meaningful change to Shanghai’s awkward two-airport geometry in years, … Read more

~25 km northeast of Kunming city centre · Yunnan Province · 240 · CNY Kunming Changshui International Airport (KMG) — Airport Guide 2026 Kunming Changshui handled roughly 49 million passengers in 2025, putting it among China’s ten busiest airports, and its actual function is less glamorous than those numbers suggest: it is the junction where … Read more

~26 km north of central Wuhan · Huangpi District, Hubei Province · China visa; 240 · CNY Wuhan Tianhe International Airport (WUH) — Airport Guide 2026 Wuhan Tianhe is a dual hub for China Eastern and China Southern, a designated 240-hour visa-free transit port, and the gateway into an eleven-million-person city that sits almost exactly … Read more

~21 miles from downtown Detroit · US CBP international gat · USD Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (DTW) — Airport Guide 2026 DTW is one of Delta’s three largest hubs and its primary US gateway to Asia — which means McNamara Terminal is a real piece of airport infrastructure, with 122 gates, an in-terminal hotel, … Read more

~6 miles east of downtown Columbus · USD John Glenn Columbus International Airport (CMH) — Airport Guide 2026 The terminal you fly through in 2026 opened in 1958, and a $2 billion replacement is rising beside it — on track to open in early 2029, and the most consequential thing happening at CMH right now. … Read more

~14 miles southwest of downtown Indianapolis · US CBP; Global Entry kio · USD Indianapolis International Airport (IND) — Airport Guide 2026 Indianapolis International runs the second-largest FedEx Express hub in the world — only Memphis moves more cargo — while the passenger side presents one of the calmer, better-rated terminals in the US. The … Read more

Hebron · Boone County, Kentucky — 13 miles south of downtown Cincinnati · US Customs and Border Pr · USD Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG) — Airport Guide 2026 CVG sits in Hebron, Kentucky — 13 miles south of the Cincinnati skyline it nominally serves — and its defining fact in 2026 is that it … Read more

Cheektowaga · NY — ~11 miles east of downtown Buffalo · USD Buffalo Niagara International Airport (BUF) — Airport Guide 2026 BUF’s defining fact isn’t its size or its routes — it’s the Ontario plates in the parking lot. A large share of the airport’s passengers are Canadians who cross the Peace or Rainbow Bridge … Read more

San Antonio · Texas, United States · US Customs and Border Pr · USD San Antonio International Airport (SAT) — Airport Guide 2026 San Antonio International is eight miles north of downtown — close enough that your rideshare will pull up to the River Walk before a standard security line at most larger hubs has … Read more

Conakry · Guinea · Required for US/UK/EU/Ca · GNF Ahmed Sékou Touré International Airport (CKY) — Airport Guide 2026 Guinea’s only international airport sits at the top of the Kaloum peninsula, 13 km from the city centre — a distance that means nothing and a traffic situation that means everything. Quick Reference IATA / ICAOCKY … Read more

~10–12 km south-east of Niamey centre · Required in advance from · CFA Diori Hamani International Airport (NIM) — Airport Guide 2026 Niger’s only international hub has been operating in a different political world since the July 2023 coup: European carriers thinned out, foreign military arrangements dissolved, and the Niamey route map consolidated around Turkish … Read more