Travel Guides

~5 km east of Ajaccio · Corsica (France) · € Ajaccio Napoléon Bonaparte Airport (AJA) — Airport Guide 2026 Named for the city’s most famous export, AJA handles more than 1.3 million passengers a year — the large majority of them French — making it effectively a domestic hub that happens to sit on a … Read more

~12 km west of Bordeaux city centre · € Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD) — Airport Guide 2026 Ryanair pulled out of Bordeaux at the end of October 2024 — taking about 40 routes and roughly two million passengers with it — and the airport has spent 2025 rebuilding around easyJet, Volotea, Transavia and Air France, while … Read more

~10 km south of Graz · Styria · € Graz Airport (GRZ) — Airport Guide 2026 Graz Airport handles around a million passengers a year, almost entirely as a hub-feed operation: Austrian runs an hourly-ish shuttle to Vienna, and from there — or via Frankfurt, Munich, and Zürich on Lufthansa, SWISS, and Air Dolomiti — … Read more

~4 km west of Salzburg centre · € Salzburg Airport W. A. Mozart (SZG) — Airport Guide 2026 Four kilometres west of the Old Town, Salzburg’s airport runs on an inverted seasonal calendar: winter is its rush, when ski charters stack up for the Ski amadé resorts and the non-Schengen passport control queues — now … Read more

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 The most important thing to know about Heraklion Airport in 2026 is that it is being replaced: a new airport at Kasteli, about 35 km inland, was past 65% complete in late 2025 and … 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