THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, "MACEDONIA"

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'Thessaloniki International Airport, "Macedonia"' (Greek: Κρατικός Αερολιμένας Θεσσαλονίκης "Μακεδονία", ''Kratikós Aeroliménas "Makedonía"'') is located about 15 km SE of the city centre of Thessaloniki at Mikra, close to the busy suburb of Kalamaria. The airport opened in 1930 and today it's the third busiest airport in Greece^[3], serving more than 3.6 million passengers annually. It is linked to the city centre by a 24-hour bus service (No. 78). There is a master plan for a major expansion of the airport, including a new much bigger terminal building that could accommodate 9 million passengers per year. Currently the expansion of one runway into the sea is underway, in order for the airport to serve long haul flights.

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Airlines and destinations

Incidents

References

External links

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 Malta (Malta [seasonal])

★ Alitalia (Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino)

★ Austrian Airlines (Vienna)

★ BlueAir (Bucharest-Bǎneasa)

★ British Airways (London-Gatwick)

★ Centralwings (Warsaw)

★ Condor Airlines (Frankfurt)

★ Cyprus Airways (Larnaca, Paphos, Paris)

★ Czech Airlines (Prague)

★ easyJet (Dortmund)

★ Elbrus Avia (Nalchik)

★ Germanwings (Cologne/Bonn, Stuttgart)

★ Karat (airline) (Anapa)

★ 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, Kalamata, Limnos, London-Gatwick, Mytilene, Rhodes, Samos, Skiros, Stuttgart)

★ Rossiya (St. Petersburg)

★ SkyEurope (Budapest, Krakow, Prague, Bratislava, Vienna)

★ Smart Wings (Ostrava, Prague)

★ Swiss International Air Lines (Zürich)

★ TAROM (Bucharest-Otopeni)

★ TUIfly (Bremen, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hannover, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Nuremberg, Stuttgart)

★ Ural Airlines (Ekaterinburg)

★ VIM Airlines (Moscow-Domodedovo)

★ Wizz Air (Budapest)

★ XL Airways (London-Gatwick, Manchester, Newcastle [summers only])

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.

References

1. Airfield Data
2. Statistics for years 2001-2003
3. Greek Airport Guide

External links

★ Greek Airports: Thessaloniki International Airport, "Macedonia"

★ Greek Airport Guide: Thessaloniki Airport, "Makedonia"

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