Europe
Austria Airports
Austria has 6 commercial airports, in Graz, Klagenfurt, Linz, Salzburg, Innsbruck and Vienna. Vienna Airport is the country's main gateway, with flights to Northern America, Africa and the Middle East while the other airports have flights from and to other cities within Europe.
Belgium Airports
The small but highly populated and developed Belgium, at the crossroads of Western Europe, has several commercial airports scattered over its regions of Flanders, Brussels and Wallonia, in the cities of Liege, Antwerp, Bruges and Ghent. Most international flights into Belgium arrive in Brussels, the capital and the administrative centre for the European Union.
Denmark Airports
Denmark, country of the vikings, is very well serviced by airports. Although quite a small place, it has 21 airports of which many receive and send flights from and to the major european cities, and Copenhagen Airport, located on the island of Sjælland is becoming a major player in Europe, with long haul flights to many locations landing and originating there.
Finland Airports
Finland's largest airport is Helsinki (Vantaa International), offering long haul flights to many asian and north american cities. The country's 24 other airports link cities within Finland and many fly to other parts of Scandinavia and the larger european hubs. Tampere-Pirkkala International Airport in Tampere is situated in the beautiful southwest region and gives access to the wilderness and lakes of Finland.
France Airports
France has around 200 airports for civil use, of which the most well known is surely Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris which is second only to Heathrow in Europe for volume of passenger movements. Other major french airports are located in Bordeaux and Biarritz, giving access to the charming southwest France, and in Lyon, where Lyon Saint-Exupery is ideally located for those who wish to visit the Alps.
Germany Airports
Germany's capital city of Berlin has 3 airports, of which the largest is Berlin-Schoenefeld International Airport, handling over 5 million passengers a year. Other large airports are situated in Hamburg, Frankfurt and Munich, Munich airport being named the best airport in Europe in 2010.
Ireland Airports
Ireland has 4 international airports and 7 regional ones (most of which also fly to various cities in the UK), giving access by air to much of this green-tinged home of leprechauns and guinness. For the rest, travellers can rent a car and explore Ireland by road. The Irish company RyanAir is one of the most competitively priced airlines on the market, and as such getting to Ireland is often easy on the wallet!
Italy Airports
Italy's food, wine, countryside and Roman history attracts visitors by the bucketload- well over 40 million tourist arrivals per year. Large airports service the main hotspots- Leonardo da Vinci Airport in Rome, Amerigo Vespucci Airport in Florence, Marco Polo Airport in Venice and Malpensa Airport in Milan. Along with smaller airports in Palermo (on the island of Sicily), Naples, Genoa, Pisa and Bologna, these will transport tourists to the north, south, coasts and tourist attractions of Italy.
Netherlands Airports
The Netherlands has 5 commercial airports, of which the largest is in Amsterdam, called Amsterdam Airport Schipol. Amsterdam alone, an increasingly popular destination due to its multicultural, tolerant and laid back urban culture, attracts 5 million visitors per year.
Norway Airports
The stunning country of Norway has more than 50 airports, rendering even the most remote corners of the country accessible. The largest Airport is Gardermoen in Oslo, and most international flights, especially from outside Europe, land there.
Portugal Airports
Portugal's biggest airport is Lisbon International, in the capital city of Lisbon. It is here that most of the intercontinental flights to Portugal will arrive, although a few come into the second and third largest airports, Faro International in the south and Francisco Sa Carneiro Airport near Oporto in the northwest.
Spain Airports
Spain is well equipped with airports, with large cities having more than one- Madrid's main airport is Madrid Barajas but there is also Madrid Torrejon and Madrid Cuatro Vientos, and Barcelona El Prat Airport is joined by Girona and Reus Airports in the Barcelona area. Spain also has many more international airports (mostly flights from within Europe) in it's various cities and holiday destinations- Ryanair, an irish budget airline, flies to 23 different airports in Spain and it's islands alone.
Switzerland Airports
Switzerland's biggest international airports are located in or near its cities of Geneva, Zurich, and Basel. The airport near Basel (Basel-Mulhouse EuroAirport) is quite unique as it is run by both France and Switzerland and also used by Germany, as it is near the borders of all 3 countries. It is located on french territory but Swiss users can reach it on an extraterritorial highway without formally entering France.
United Kingdom Airports
Most will think of the famous Heathrow when they think of UK airports, the 4th busiest airport in the world as of 2010, and the busiest in Europe in terms of passenger movement. However there are 2 more large airports in London alone, and many other both international and domestic airports in other UK towns and cities- Edinburgh airport providing a gateway to Scotland, Cardiff to Wales, and Belfast to Northern Ireland.