Your cabin trolley just got a price tag. Since May 19, 2026, Lufthansa's Economy Basic fare on European short and medium-haul routes no longer includes a free overhead bin bag. You get one small personal item under the seat. That's it.
55 airlines, roughly 120 direct destinations, five routes that never existed before. According to Hamburg Airport, the summer 2026 schedule is the most diverse offering in the airport's history. Great. But if you've ever stood at a gate with a bag that didn't meet the airline's size limit, you...
Bangkok to Frankfurt for 3,200 euros. Six months ago, I saw that same ticket for around 1,000. Not a premium fare. Not a last-minute booking. Just the new reality after the Iran conflict tore through Persian Gulf aviation.
3 centimeters. Doesn't sound like much, right? But if you've ever tried to shove your suitcase into Condor's baggage sizer at the gate, you know every centimeter counts.
Good news if you're flying to or from Germany this summer. Around 30,000 ground handling employees just got a collective agreement that rules out strikes until March 2027. That means no more luggage pileups on the tarmac, no security checkpoint chaos, none of the scenes that paralyzed German...
EUR 120. That's what you'll pay at the airport counter when you realize your TUI fly ticket doesn't include a suitcase. For 20 kg of checked baggage. One way. Round trip? That's EUR 240 extra, and your budget ticket suddenly isn't so budget anymore.
Your flight is heading to Crete, not Paris. And yet the board says "cancelled." Sounds illogical? It isn't. A French air traffic control strike in 2026 doesn't just hit France, it hits half of Europe. And there's been plenty of it this year already: strike days in April (the 18th, 19th, and...
5.95 million Germans flew to Greece in 2025. That was 10.2% more than the year before. And 2026 is shaping up to be even bigger.
Five weekly flights to Cape Town, nearly daily service to Rio, and Nairobi becoming a daily destination. Lufthansa just made a serious push on its Frankfurt long-haul network for summer 2026. If you've been eyeing a trip to South Africa, Brazil, or Kenya, your options got a lot better.
Pay €6 online or €70 at the gate. That's not a typo. The Ryanair hand luggage gate fee has become one of the most talked-about travel costs of 2026. And honestly, they're not even the worst offender.
665 million euros. 95,000 square meters. 360 meters long. Munich Airport opened a brand new pier at Terminal 1 in April 2026, and I think most travelers haven't really grasped what that changes. It's not just about extra gates. The new pier has CT scanners that let you keep your laptop in your...
3.7 million passengers at Memmingen. Over 2.2 million at Weeze. Both airports smashed their own records in 2025 and are now flying above pre-COVID levels. Frankfurt, Germany's biggest hub? Still stuck at roughly 95% of where it was in 2019.