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As of 2024, it is the 16th-busiest airport in Europe and the second busiest and second largest in the Balkans, after Istanbul Airport. The new Athens International Airport covers an expanse of 16,000 acres (25.0 sq mi; 64.7 km 2), making the facility among the largest in Europe and in the world in terms of land area. [4]
This is a list of airports in Greece, grouped by type and sorted by location. Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkan Peninsula. It has land borders with Albania, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the east.
The company launched four shops there. Today, at Athens International Airport, 31 shops are in operation (12 in intra-Schengen Departures, 12 on the extra-Schengen Departures level, four in the free zone and three in the Arrivals hall, in the baggage claim area). In 2006 privatization of the company was completed.
This is a list of Greece's busiest airports per year by passenger traffic. Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. Updates on reimplementing the Graph extension, which will be known as the Chart extension, can be found on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org .
Heraklion International Airport "Nikos Kazantzakis" (IATA: HER, ICAO: LGIR) is the primary airport on the island of Crete, Greece, and the country's second busiest airport after Athens International Airport. It is located about 5 km (3.1 mi) east of the main city centre of Heraklion, near the municipality of Nea Alikarnassos. It is a shared ...
A flight information display system (FIDS) is a computer system used in airports to display flight information to passengers, in which a computer system controls mechanical or electronic display boards or monitors in order to display arriving and departing flight information in real-time. The displays are located inside or around an airport ...
The airport's official capacity was 11 million passengers per year. [8] The airport was closed on 28 March 2001. The last aircraft to depart from Ellinikon was an Olympic Airways Boeing 737 bound for Thessaloníki. All flights were transferred to the new Athens International Airport, located 20 km east of the city in Spata. [9]
The airport is the third-largest airport in the country after Athens International Airport and Heraklion International Airport. It opened in 1930 and was the second-busiest airport in Greece in terms of flights served and the third-busiest in terms of passengers served in 2016, with over 6 million