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Uzbekistan · Samarkand · Visa-Free · Som Samarkand International Airport (SKD) — The Complete Master Guide 2026 Samarkand is the reason most people fly into SKD, and the airport knows it. The terminal that opened in March 2022 is shaped like an open book — a nod to the 15th-century astronomer Ulugh Beg, whose grandfather … Read more

Solomon Islands · Honiara · VoA · Dollar Honiara International Airport (HIR) — The Complete Master Guide 2026 Honiara International Airport sits 11 km east of the capital on a runway the Japanese started, the Americans finished, and a Marine dive-bomber commander killed at Midway gave his name to. Most travellers arrive here for one … Read more

Papua New Guinea · Port Moresby · VoA/eVisa · Kina · Travel With Care Jacksons International Airport (POM) — The Complete Master Guide 2026 Jacksons International is the front door to Papua New Guinea, and it is one of the few major international airports in the world where the standard advice is to not leave … Read more

Vanuatu · Port Vila · Visa-Free · Vatu Bauerfield International Airport (VLI) — The Complete Master Guide 2026 Bauerfield is small, hot, and runs on island time, and the two things most arriving travellers get wrong are the same two things this guide opens with: there is no jet bridge and no scheduled airport bus, … Read more

New Caledonia · Nouméa · XPF La Tontouta International Airport (NOU) — The Complete Master Guide 2026 La Tontouta is defined by one number: the road from the terminal to Nouméa runs about 50 km, and that drive — 45 minutes if you have a private car waiting, closer to 75 on the shared shuttle … Read more

French Polynesia · Tahiti · XPF Faaʼa International Airport (PPT) — The Complete Master Guide 2026 Faaʼa is the only way into French Polynesia by air, and the only runway in the territory long enough to take a widebody. Everything — the Air France from Paris, the United from San Francisco, the Air Tahiti Nui … Read more

Australia · Canberra · ETA/eVisitor · AUD Canberra Airport (CBR) — The Complete Master Guide 2026 Canberra Airport is the odd one out among Australia’s capital-city airports. It serves the seat of federal government — Parliament House, the High Court, the War Memorial, a cluster of national galleries — and yet in 2024 it handled … Read more

Australia · Hobart (Tasmania) · ETA/eVisitor · AUD Hobart International Airport (HBA) — The Complete Master Guide 2026 Hobart International Airport carries the word “International” in its name, but for almost everyone reading this it is a domestic airport with one foreign route. The only scheduled overseas service is Air New Zealand’s Auckland flight, two … Read more

Australia · Cairns · ETA/eVisitor · AUD Cairns International Airport (CNS) — The Complete Master Guide 2026 Almost everyone landing at CNS arrives with a Reef boat ticket or a Kuranda railway booking already paid for. Cairns is a single-industry town — that industry is the Great Barrier Reef — and its airport is built … Read more

New Zealand · Wellington · NZeTA + IVL · NZD Wellington International Airport (WLG) — The Complete Master Guide 2026 Wellington’s airport is small, and it sits in a place that makes flying in memorable for the wrong reasons. One runway, 1,815 metres of it, wedged on a narrow neck of land between the harbour … Read more

New Zealand · Christchurch · NZeTA + IVL · NZD Christchurch International Airport (CHC) — The Complete Master Guide 2026 Christchurch is the South Island’s main air entry point and the place most travellers meet New Zealand for the first time if they skip Auckland. The airport sits on the flat Canterbury Plains about 12 … Read more

Iraq · Baghdad · Visa-on-Arrival · Do Not Travel · Dinar Baghdad International Airport (BGW) — The Complete Master Guide 2026 Baghdad International Airport sits about 16 km west of central Baghdad, at the end of a road that earned its reputation the hard way. This guide is written soberly and on purpose: BGW is … Read more

Iran · Mashhad · Visa/e-Visa · Rial Mashhad Shahid Hasheminejad International Airport (MHD) — The Complete Master Guide 2026 Mashhad is Iran’s second city by population and its first by foot traffic of a particular kind: nearly 30 million pilgrims a year come to pray at the Imam Reza shrine, the third-largest mosque complex on … Read more

Lebanon · Beirut · Visa-on-Arrival · LBP/USD Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport (BEY) — The Complete Master Guide 2026 Lebanon’s only working international airport sits 9 km south of downtown Beirut, wedged into the coastal flat of the southern suburbs. That location is the single most important fact about the place in 2026: the neighbourhoods immediately … Read more

Afghanistan · Kabul · Do Not Travel · Afghani Kabul International Airport (KBL) — The Complete Master Guide 2026 Kabul International Airport sits at 1,791 metres in a bowl of the Hindu Kush, 5 km from the nearest central districts of the Afghan capital. It is one of the few functioning gateways into a country … Read more