Tours Airport (Val de Loire)

Advantages: Easy to get to, cheap flights from Stansted and Dublin
Disadvantages: Very limited facilities

...describe the provincial airport in Tours - small and compact hits the nail on the head and this airport, ideally placed in the heart of the Loire Valley (as its full name suggests), serves a well-known French tourist destination yet has plenty of cheap flights available all year round. The reason? As with so many other small airports across Europe, it's Ryanair. Many things have been said and written about the working practices of the Irish budget ...
...was only possible to reach Tours from London Stansted but this year Ryanair have added flights from Dublin to their schedule. The flights to and from Stansted are on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays and Dublin flights are on Wednesdays and Sundays. It's difficult to predict whether the frequency of flights and the number of destinations will increase over time but I'd say it's quite likely that this will be the case. Biard airport in Poitiers seems ... Read review