Santorini (Thira) National Airport

Santorini National Airport
Κρατικός Αερολιμένας Σαντορίνης
IATA: JTRICAO: LGSR
JTR
Location of airport in Greece
Summary
Airport type Public
Location Kamari
Elevation AMSL 127 ft / 39 m
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
16L/34R 6,972 2,125 Asphalt

Santorini (Thira) National Airport is an airport in Santorini/Thira, Greece (IATA: JTRICAO: LGSR), located north of the village of Kamari. The airport serves both as a military and as a civil airport. With its relatively small apron, the airport is only able to serve up to 6 civilian planes at the same time. The tower (freq. 118.05) also serves as approach / departure, up to FL170.

Santorini is one of the few Cyclades Islands with a major airport. It is about 6 km southeast of downtown Thira. The main asphalt runway (16L-34R) is 6972 feet/2125m in length. The parallel taxiway was built to runway specification (16R-34L). It can accommodate Boeing 757, Boeing 737, Airbus 320 series, Avro RJ, Fokker 70, and ATR 72. Scheduled airlines include Olympic Air and Aegean Airlines, with chartered flights from other airlines during the summer. Transportation to and from the air terminal is through buses, taxis, hotel car-pickups and rental cars.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines Destinations
Adria Airways Seasonal: Ljubljana
Aegean Airlines Athens
Seasonal: Larnaca, Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino, Thessaloniki
Air Berlin Seasonal: Berlin-Tegel, Nuremberg
AlbaStar Catania
Arkia Israel Airlines Seasonal: Tel Aviv
Astra Airlines Seasonal: Thessaloniki
Austrian Airlines
operated by Lauda Air
Seasonal: Linz, Salzburg, Vienna[1]
Condor Seasonal: Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart
Cyprus Airways Larnaca
EasyJet Seasonal: London-Gatwick, Milan-Malpensa
Germanwings Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn
Malév Charter: Budapest
Iberia operated by Air Nostrum Madrid
Jetairfly Seasonal: Brussels
JetTime Charter: Copenhagen, Billund
Meridiana Fly Bologna, Milan-Malpensa, Verona
Niki Seasonal: Graz
Norwegian Air Shuttle Seasonal: Copenhagen, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda
Olympic Air Athens
Sky Express Seasonal: Heraklion, Mykonos, Rhodes
Sun d'Or
operated by El Al
Seasonal: Tel Aviv
Tarom Seasonal: Bucharest-Henri Coanda
Thomas Cook Airlines Seasonal: London-Gatwick, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
Thomson Airways Seasonal: Birmingham, London-Gatwick, Manchester
Transavia.com Seasonal: Amsterdam, Paris-Orly
Vueling Seasonal: Barcelona

References

  1. ^ https://www.laudaair.com/book/StartHtml.aspx?a=3&fplan=y&L=0&lang=DE Lauda Air timetable (retrieved 2009-08-31)

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