Thessaloniki International Airport, "Macedonia"

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Thessaloniki International Airport "Macedonia" Κρατικός Αερολιμένας Θεσσαλονίκης "Μακεδονία"
IATA: SKG - ICAO: LGTS
Summary
Airport type		Public/Military
Operator		Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority
Serves		Thessaloniki
Elevation AMSL		22 ft (7 m)
Coordinates		40°31′11.01″N, 22°58′15.42″E
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
10/28	8,005	2,440	Asphalt
16/34	7,907	2,410	Asphalt

Apron of Thessaloniki international airport with view towards passenger terminal

Thessaloniki International Airport, "Macedonia" (Greek: Κρατικός Αερολιμένας Θεσσαλονίκης "Μακεδονία", Kratikós Aeroliménas "Makedonía") (IATA: SKG, ICAO: LGTS) is about 15 km SE of the city centre of Thessaloniki, close to the busy suburb of Kalamaria. It is the fourth most used airport in Greece.^{[verification needed]}

[edit] Airlines and destinations

Aegean Airlines (Athens, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Heraklion, Rhodes, Larnaca, Munich, Mytilene, Stuttgart)
Aerosvit Airlines (Kiev-Boryspil)
Air Berlin (Berlin-Schönefeld, Berlin-Tegel, Cologne/Bonn, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Erfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Münster/Osnabrück, Nuremberg, Paderborn/Lippstadt) [seasonal]
Air 400 (Moscow-Domodedovo) [summer 2007]
Alitalia (Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino)
Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
Belle Air (Tirana) [April 2007]
BlueAir (Bucharest-Bǎneasa)
British Airways (London-Gatwick)
Centralwings (Warsaw) [Starts June 12,2007]
Cyprus Airways (Larnaca, Paphos, Paris)
Czech Airlines (Prague)
easyJet (Dortmund) [starts May 31 2007]
Elbrus Avia (Nalchik)
Germanwings (Cologne/Bonn, Stuttgart)
Karat (airline) (Anapa)
Kavminvodyavia (Mineralnye Vody)
KrasAir (Moscow-Domodedovo)
Kuban Airlines (Krasnodar)
LTU International (Düsseldorf, Munich)
Malév Hungarian Airlines (Budapest)
Olympic Airlines (Athens, Berlin-Tegel, Corfu, Chania, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Heraklion, Istanbul-Ataturk, Limnos, London-Gatwick, Mytilene, Rhodes, Samos, Skiros, Stuttgart)
Rossiya Airlines (St. Petersburg) [summer 2007]
Samara Airlines Samara [summer 2007]
SkyEurope (Budapest, Krakow [starts June 2007], Prague, Bratislava, Vienna)
Smart Wings (Prague, Ostrava [summer 2007])
Swiss International Air Lines (Zürich)
TAROM (Bucharest-Otopeni)
TUIfly (Bremen, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hannover, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Nuremberg, Stuttgart)
Ural Airlines (Ekaterinburg) [summer 2007]
VIM Airlines (Moscow-Domodedovo)
Wizz Air (Budapest) [starts June 12 2007]

[edit] Incidents

December 17, 1997, A Yakovlev 42 of Aerosvit Airlines, operating the route from Odessa, Ukraine to Thessaloniki, lost contact with the airport's air traffic control and during the second attempt the aircraft was crashed in the Pierian mountains, near Mount Olympus. A total of 70 people, passengers and crew, were killed.