Niko Marin

Niko sold a SaaS startup in 2021 and has been continuously on the road since, typically spending three to eight months in a city before moving on. Bangkok now, Lisbon before that, Mexico City the year before, Istanbul and Tbilisi earlier. He writes from the position of someone who uses airports relentlessly but isn’t from any of them, which he treats as both an advantage and a limitation in print.

He writes for airport.flights as a paid freelance contributor, one piece a month focused on cross-regional comparisons, the surprising similarities between airports separated by ten thousand miles, and the question of what makes a hub feel friendly to a stranger versus one who lives nearby. His beat is the long-term traveller’s comparative view, written for readers who want a perspective wider than a regional specialist’s but more grounded than an annual rankings list.

He has no fixed home, flies on whatever combination of Aeroplan transfers and AAdvantage redemptions gets him where he’s going, and maintains that LIS is the most-improved airport in Europe over the last five years, which he means as a small civic compliment to a city he’s quietly fond of.