Rhodes International Airport

Rhodes International Airport "Diagoras"
Κρατικός Αερολιμένας Ρόδου "Διαγόρας»

IATA: RHO – ICAO: LGRP

RHO
Location of airport in Greece

Summary
Airport type Public
Owner Greek state
Operator Fraport AG/Copelouzos Group joint venture
Serves Rodos
Location Paradisi
Hub for Olympic Air
Focus city for Aegean Airlines
Elevation AMSL 6 m / 19 ft
Coordinates 36°24′19.51″N 28°05′10.29″E / 36.4054194°N 28.0861917°E / 36.4054194; 28.0861917Coordinates: 36°24′19.51″N 28°05′10.29″E / 36.4054194°N 28.0861917°E / 36.4054194; 28.0861917
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
07/25 3,305 10,844 Asphalt
Statistics (2014)
Passengers 4,552,056
Passenger traffic change Increase 8.4%
Aircraft movements 35,006
Aircraft movements change Increase 7.3%
Runway[1] Statistics[2]

Rhodes International Airport, "Diagoras" (Greek: Κρατικός Αερολιμένας Ρόδου, "Διαγόρας") or Diagoras International Airport (IATA: RHO, ICAO: LGRP) is located on the West side of the island of Rhodes in Greece. The facility is located just north of the village Paradisi, about 14 km southwest of the capital city, Rodos. Rhodes International Airport was the fourth busiest airport in Greece as of 2014, with 4,552,056 passengers utilizing the airport.[2]

History

Civil aviation on Rhodes started after the second world war, on the location of the nearby military Rhodes Maritsa Airport. This was the island's main airport until 1980, when the new Rhodes International Airport was opened. The need for a new facility was big, as the 'old' Maritsa airport did not meet the needs for a modern civil airport.

The new "Diagoras" airport was built in 1977. It was decided that, on this location, it would meet the needs of the island better.

Over the passing years, many improvements have been made to the airport, like expansion of taxiways, platform and airport buildings. The most recent upgrade is the new passenger terminal, which opened in 2005, to better accommodate the growing amount of charters and passengers. The airport's plants currently cover a total area of 60,000 m2[3]

In 2015, Rhodes Airport was closed for 14 hours after a 'sinkhole' appeared on the runway. Flights were diverted to Athens and the runway was fixed and reopened shortly afterwards.

In December 2015 the privatisation of Rhodes International Airport and 13 other regional airports of Greece was finalised with the signing of the agreement between the Fraport AG/Copelouzos Group joint venture and the state privatisation fund.[4] "We signed the deal today," the head of Greece's privatisation agency HRADF, Stergios Pitsiorlas, told Reuters.[5] According to the agreement, the joint venture will operate the 14 airports (including Rhodes International Airport) for 40 years as of autumn 2016.

Facilities

Runway

The airport's single runway direction is 070/250, having a length of 3,306 meters and a width of 60 meters. There are six taxiways connecting the runway with the terminal.

Airlines and destinations

AirlinesDestinations
Aegean Airlines Athens
Seasonal: Amsterdam, Düsseldorf,[6] Frankfurt, Geneva, Larnaca, Lyon, Marseille (begins 12 April 2016),[7] Milan-Malpensa (begins 27 June 2016),[7] Moscow-Domodedovo, Munich, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Saint Petersburg, Venice-Marco Polo (begins 2 June 2016),[8] Zürich
Aeroflot
operated by Rossiya 		Seasonal: Saint Petersburg
airBaltic Seasonal: Riga[9]
Air Berlin Seasonal: Berlin-Tegel, Düsseldorf, Munich, Nuremberg, Zürich
Alitalia Seasonal: Milan-Linate, Rome-Fiumicino[10]
Arkia Seasonal: Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion
Austrian Airlines Seasonal: Linz, Vienna
Blu-express
operated by Blue Panorama Airlines 		Seasonal: Bergamo,[11] Catania, Rome-Fiumicino
Borajet Seasonal: Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen
British Airways Seasonal: London-Gatwick[12]
Condor Seasonal: Berlin-Schönefeld, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Stuttgart
Corendon Dutch AirlinesSeasonal: Amsterdam
easyJet Seasonal: Amsterdam (begins 15 June 2016)[13] Berlin-Schönefeld, Liverpool, London-Gatwick, Milan-Malpensa, Newcastle upon Tyne,[14] Paris-Orly
Edelweiss Air Seasonal: Zürich
Finnair Seasonal: Helsinki
Germanwings Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Hamburg (begins 21 May 2016)[15]
Germania[16]Seasonal: Bremen, Dresden, Erfurt/Weimar, Friedrichshafen, Hamburg, Münster/Osnabrück, Rostock
Germania Flug Seasonal: Zürich (begins 3 May 2016)
Israir Seasonal: Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion
Jet2.com Seasonal: East Midlands, Edinburgh (begins 25 June 2016),[17] Glasgow, Leeds/Bradford, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
Jetairfly Seasonal: Brussels, Charleroi, Liège, Ostend/Bruges
Meridiana Seasonal: Milan-Linate,[18] Milan-Malpensa, Naples, Verona
Mistral AirSeasonal: Naples
Monarch Airlines Seasonal: London-Gatwick, Manchester
Niki Seasonal: Graz, Linz, Salzburg, Vienna
Norwegian Air Shuttle Seasonal: Copenhagen
Olympic Air Astypalaia (PSO), Kalymnos (PSO),[19] Karpathos (PSO),[19] Kasos (PSO),[19] Kastelorizo (PSO),[19] Kos (PSO),[19] Leros (PSO), Sitia (PSO),[19]
Olympic Air
operated by Aegean Airlines 		Thessaloniki
Seasonal: Heraklion (begins 27 March 2016)
Ryanair Athens
Seasonal: Bergamo, Bologna, Charleroi, East Midlands, Kaunas, Liverpool, London-Stansted, Pisa, Stockholm-Skavsta, Weeze (begins 2 June 2016)[20]
S7 AirlinesMoscow-Domodedovo (begins 28 April 2016)[21]
Sky Express Chios (PSO),[19] Heraklion, Lemnos (PSO),[19] Mytilene (PSO),[19] Samos (PSO)[19]
SmartWings
operated by Travel Service Airlines[22][23]		 Seasonal: Brno, Ostrava, Pardubice, Prague
SmartWings
operated by Travel Service Slovakia[22][23]		 Seasonal: Bratislava,[24] Budapest,[25] Košice
SunExpress Deutschland Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Hannover,[26] Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Stuttgart
Thomas Cook Airlines Seasonal: Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, East Midlands, Glasgow, London-Gatwick, London-Stansted,[27] Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
Thomson Airways Seasonal: Belfast International Airport Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cardiff, Doncaster/Sheffield, Dublin,[28] East Midlands, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Leeds/Bradford, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
Transavia Seasonal: Amsterdam, Eindhoven
TUI Airlines Netherlands Seasonal: Amsterdam
TUIfly Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hanover, Karlsruhe/Baden Baden, Munich, Nuremberg, Saarbrücken, Stuttgart, Vienna
Volotea Seasonal: Venice-Marco Polo
Vueling Seasonal: Catania,[29] Rome-Fiumicino [30]
Wizz Air Seasonal: Budapest
XL Airways France Seasonal: Lille

Charter flights

AirlinesDestinations
Adria Airways Seasonal: Ljubljana
Aegean Airlines Seasonal: Ålesund, Baku, Bari, Beirut, Bergamo, Belgrade, Belfast-International, Birmingham,[32] Bucharest, Budapest, Cluj-Napoca,[33] Copenhagen (begins 28 April 2016),[34] Cuneo, Košice, Luleå, Nantes, Odense, Rostov-on-Don, Östersund, Skellefteå, Tirana
Aeroflot Seasonal: Moscow-Sheremetyevo[35]
Air Bucharest Seasonal: Bucharest , Sibiu, Timișoara
Austrian Airlines Seasonal: Graz, Innsbruck
Aviolet
operated by Air Serbia		 Seasonal: Belgrade
BlueBird Airways Seasonal: Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion
Enter Air Seasonal: Bydgoszcz, Łódź
Europe Airpost Seasonal: Brest, Lyon, Nantes, Paris-Charles de Gaulle[36]
Helvetic AirwaysSeasonal: Bern
Luxair Seasonal: Luxembourg
LOT Charters Seasonal: Warsaw-Chopin
Novair Seasonal: Oslo-Gardermoen, Skellefteå, Stockholm-Arlanda, Visby
Orenair Seasonal: Belgorod, Samara[37]
Primera Air Seasonal: Stockholm-Arlanda
Scandinavian Airlines Seasonal: Bergen, Billund, Copenhagen, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda, Trondheim
Small Planet Airlines Seasonal: London-Gatwick
Sun D'Or
operated by El Al 		Seasonal: Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion
TAROM Seasonal: Bucharest, Iași
Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium Seasonal: Brussels, Liège
Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia Seasonal: Bergen, Borlänge, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Helsinki, Jönköping, Kalmar, Karlstad, Luleå, Malmö, Norrköping, Örebro, Oslo-Gardermoen, Sandefjord, Stockholm-Arlanda, Trondheim
Transavia.com Seasonal: Groningen, Maastricht
Travel Service Hungary Seasonal: Budapest
TUIfly Nordic Seasonal: Helsinki, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda
Ural Airlines Seasonal: Krasnodar
Wind Rose Aviation Seasonal: Kiev-Boryspil

Traffic figures

Annual Passenger Throughput: 14-year history[2]

Year Flights Passengers Passengers Change
2001 28,100 3,428,175 Increase 0.6%
2002 27,010 3,230,483 Decrease 5.8%
2003 29,119 3,166,070 Decrease 2.0%
2004 29,026 3,036,523 Decrease 4.1%
2005 28,444 3,207,514 Increase 5.6%
2006 30,742 3,491,522 Increase 8.9%
2007 32,776 3,625,962 Increase 3.9%
2008 32,490 3,567,469 Decrease 1.6%
2009 31,680 3,470,111 Decrease 2.7%
2010 31,558 3,586,572 Increase 3.4%
2011 34,662 4,148,386 Increase 15.7%
2012 30,896 3,813,947 Decrease 8.1%
2013 32,624 4,200,059 Increase 10.1%
2014 35,006 4,552,056 Increase 8.4%
2015 7,268 770,027[38]

Ground transport

By car the airport can be reached via the main road along the west coast (Rhodes-Kamiros Avn.). Rodos city is some 30 minutes driving away. Buses to Rodos city depart regularly and the journey takes about 40 minutes.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Jeppesen aerodrome charts
  2. 1 2 3 "RODOS AIRPORT "DIAGORAS"". ypa.gr. Retrieved 9 January 2016.
  3. ↑ "Rhodes Diagoras International Airport History, Facts and Overview". Airports Guides. http://www.airports-guides.com/. Retrieved 12 November 2011. External link in |publisher= (help)
  4. ↑ http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/tourism-businesses/new-investments/13859-greece-signs-privatization-of-14-regional-airports-with-germany-s-fraport-for-e1-2-bln.html
  5. ↑ http://uk.reuters.com/article/eurozone-greece-privatisation-idUKL8N1431P720151214
  6. ↑ JL (24 September 2013). "Aegean Airlines Planned New Routes in S14". Airline Route.
  7. 1 2 http://airlineroute.net/2015/09/22/ss-abj-w15cxld/
  8. ↑ aegeanair.com
  9. ↑ http://airlineroute.net/2014/12/03/bt-dbvrho-s15/
  10. ↑ https://alitalia.com
  11. ↑ "Blu Express Adds New Milan Bergamo – Greece Seasonal Routes Jul – Sep 2015". Airline Route. Retrieved 21 May 2015.
  12. ↑ "British Airways Announce Summer London Gatwick – Rhodes Service.". The BA Source. 15 May 2014.
  13. ↑ http://airlineroute.net/2015/11/26/u2-ams-may16/
  14. ↑ "New routes for summer 2015". Easyjet.
  15. ↑ https://www.germanwings.com/de.html
  16. ↑ "Germania Flight Schedule / 30.12.2014 - 01.11.2015" (PDF). Germania.
  17. ↑ http://www.edinburghairport.com/about-us/media-centre/press-releases/jet2-announce-massive-growth-at-edinburgh-airport
  18. ↑ http://airlineroute.net/2015/05/13/ig-mil-s15/
  19. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Official Journal of the European Union C 321/6". EUR-Lex.europa.eu. Retrieved 8 September 2012.
  20. ↑ https://beta.ryanair.com/ie/en/
  21. ↑ "S7 Airlines opens flights to Rhodes". S7 Airlines. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  22. 1 2 "SmartWings Contact". smartwings.com.
  23. 1 2 "SmartWings Flight schedule". smartwings.com.
  24. ↑ http://airlineroute.net/2015/01/08/qs-bts-jun15/
  25. ↑ http://airlineroute.net/2015/03/23/qs-hungary-s15/
  26. ↑ http://www.sunexpress.com/de/fluege/flugplan
  27. ↑ Cheap holidays, Package Holidays, Hotels, Flights. Thomas Cook (7 December 2011).
  28. ↑ Falcon | Holidays | Book amazing value package holiday deals online with Falcon. Falconholidays.ie.
  29. ↑ http://www.vueling.com/en
  30. ↑ "Vueling open 24 new routes from Rome". Vuelingnews.com.
  31. ↑ http://ebook.aia.gr/?id=231
  32. ↑ http://bhxflightguide.blogspot.gr/2014/05/news-aegean.html
  33. ↑ "CHARTER FLIGHTS". airportcluj.ro. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
  34. ↑ "Grækere åbner tredje CPH-rute". 12 December 2015.
  35. ↑ "Moscow Domodedovo airport flight schedule". Retrieved 30 April 2011.
  36. ↑ http://www.europeairpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Destinations-desservies-vols-loisirs-Europe-Airpost-Saison-ete-2013.pdf
  37. ↑ "Кернл Хг Аекцнпндю Асдср Керюрэ Вюпрепш Б Хрюкхч Х Цпежхч / Цпежхъ : Вюпрепш /". Travel.ru. 17 March 2014.
  38. ↑ http://www.ypa.gr/en/profile/statistics/temporarystatistics/

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