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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 ...
Name Location Use ICAO IATA Coordinates Heraklion International Airport: Heraklion: Civil/Military LGIR HER Chania International Airport: Chania: Civil/Military
Greek Airport Guide at Alexandroupolis Airport website (in Greek) Greek Airports at airliners.GR; Greek Airports "ICAO Location Indicators by State" (PDF). International Civil Aviation Organization. 17 September 2010. "IATA Airline and Airport Code Search". International Air Transport Association. "UN Location Codes: Greece". UN/LOCODE 2012-1.
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]
Prior to that, Athens-Ben Epps Airport was linked to Charlotte via US Airways Express, which followed service provided by Piedmont Airlines in the mid-1980s. Until that time, commercial air ...
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Complaints have been filed for lack of a new road linking the new airport to the south coast of Crete. The new airport will be constructed over an area of 600 ha (1,500 acres), adjacent to the current military airport in Kasteli. It will have a runway 3,800 m (12,500 ft) long to accommodate larger aircraft than can presently be operated into ...
Athens Airport Terminal in 1961 Olympic Airways Boeing 707 taking off from Ellinikon in 1973 Douglas DC-3 of the Hellenic CAA at Ellinikon Airport in April 1973 Olympic Airways Boeing 747-200B landing at the airport in 1996. This airframe - SX-OAB - still remains as one of the four abandoned aircraft at the defunct airport to this day.