Tangier Ibn Battuta Airport — Tangier, Morocco

TNG bears the name of Ibn Battuta, the fourteenth-century Tangier-born explorer whose travels across the Islamic world and beyond stretched further than those of Marco Polo. The airport sits a short distance from downtown Tangier, the Moroccan city facing the Strait of Gibraltar where Africa and Europe come within about fourteen kilometers of each other. That proximity has shaped Tangier's identity for centuries, and it now shapes TNG's passenger base, with European low-cost carriers running frequent routes from Spain and France alongside Royal Air Maroc's network. Tangier has undergone rapid development in recent decades, anchored by the nearby Tanger Med port complex, one of the largest container ports on the Mediterranean and Atlantic approaches. Tourists arrive here for the medina's winding alleys, the Kasbah overlooking the strait, and easy onward travel into the Rif Mountains or south toward Rabat and Casablanca.