Travel Guides

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

RON Oradea International Airport (OMR) — Airport Guide 2026 Romania joined Schengen in full on 1 January 2025 — land borders with Hungary included — and still uses the leu. Oradea Airport, 6 km from a city that has spent the last decade restoring one of Central Europe’s more serious Art Nouveau collections, is small … Read more

~26 km northwest of Constanța · Black Sea coast · RON Constanța Mihail Kogălniceanu International Airport (CND) — Airport Guide 2026 Romania’s Schengen membership is fully in force — air and sea border checks ended on 31 March 2024, land borders on 1 January 2025 — but Constanța airport still runs one terminal, roughly three … Read more

~8 km east of Cluj-Napoca · Transylvania, Romania · RON Cluj-Napoca Avram Iancu International Airport (CLJ) — Airport Guide 2026 Romania’s second-busiest airport sits 8 km east of Cluj-Napoca and handles roughly three million passengers a year — a figure driven by the city’s overlap of diaspora routes, a tech sector large enough to earn … Read more

Pyrzowice · ~30 km north of Katowice; ~100 km from Kraków · PLN Katowice Airport “Wojciech Korfanty” (KTW) — Airport Guide 2026 Katowice’s airport is not in Katowice — it sits at Pyrzowice, 30 kilometres north of the city, with no rail link and no direct bus, which is the single most consequential fact about … Read more

~7 km west of Poznań city centre · PLN Poznań–Ławica Airport (POZ) — Airport Guide 2026 Poznań’s Ławica passed 4 million passengers in 2025 — its first time — making it one of western Poland’s main low-cost hubs, served by Ryanair and Wizz Air on the short-haul end and by LOT and Lufthansa on the … Read more

~6 km east of Luxembourg City · € Luxembourg Airport (LUX) — Airport Guide 2026 Luxembourg’s Findel airport sits 6 km east of the capital and has one genuine advantage over almost every other airport in Europe: the tram into town is free — not a shuttle, not a transfer ticket, not a coupon — … Read more

DKK Billund Airport (BLL) — Airport Guide 2026 Denmark’s second-busiest airport owes its existence to LEGO: the toy group’s headquarters is here, the original LEGOLAND is roughly 1.5 km from the terminal, and a founding family holds a stake in the airport building itself. Quick Reference Official nameBillund Airport (Billund Lufthavn) IATA / ICAOBLL / … Read more

~8 km northwest of Eindhoven · North Brabant · € Eindhoven Airport (EIN) — Airport Guide 2026 Eindhoven handled a record near-7 million passengers in 2025, making it the Netherlands’ second-busiest airport after Schiphol — a single-terminal, single-runway low-cost hub that punches well above its size, and one that plans to shut entirely for about … Read more

~6 km from Charleroi; ~50–60 km south of Brussels · € Brussels South Charleroi Airport (CRL) — Airport Guide 2026 The name is marketing and the distance is real: “Brussels South” is at Charleroi, 50–60 km south of Brussels, an hour from Brussels-Midi by Flibco coach — not a city airport. That mismatch is the … Read more