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As of 2023, it is the 18th-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]
The airport was located 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) south of Athens, and just west of Glyfada. It was named after the village of Elliniko, now a suburb of Athens. The airport had an official capacity of 11 million passengers per year, but served 13.5 million passengers during its last year of operations.
AIA received a 250 million-fund from the EU to build the new Athens airport [10] Operations of the Athens International Airport started March 29, 2001. In 2004, it was declared European airport of the year. [11] The airport was built in preparation for the 2004 Summer Olympics. [12]
Athens-Ben Epps Airport received interest from commercial airlines as a potential site for services, but officials said they expressed concern about the airport's parking accommodations.
Because of the limited availability of these trains (7 in total), only 1 or 2 per hour reach the station, leaving the airport every 36 minutes from 06:10 to 23:34. [ 4 ] The decision to extend Line 3 to the airport forced a change to the station design; Metro trains have a higher floor than Suburban Railway trains, so the central track had to ...
English: View of an Athens Metro 2nd generation train, with unit 259 leading, awaiting departure at Athens International Airport station for the central city and ultimately Agia Marina Date 11 April 2019, 15:24:33
This is a route-map template for the Athens Airport–Patras railway, a Hellenic Railways Organisation (OSE) line in Greece. For a key to symbols, see {{ railway line legend }} . For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap .
Rank Airport Total passengers Annual change Rank change; 1: Athens: 24,135,736: 11.0%: 2: Heraklion: 8,098,465: 10.4%: 3: Thessaloniki: 6,689,193: 7.1%: 4: Rhodes ...