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Santorini (Thira) National Airport is an airport in Santorini/Thira, Greece (IATA: JTR, ICAO: 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 Airport viewed from Ancient Thera
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 |
|---|---|
| Aegean Airlines | Athens Seasonal: Heraklion (begins 14 June 2014), Mykonos (begins 14 June 2014), Rhodes (begins July 10 2014), Thessaloniki Seasonal charter: Bucharest, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion (begins 9 May 2014) |
| Adria Airways | Seasonal charter: Ljubljana |
| Air Serbia | Seasonal charter: Belgrade |
| Astra Airlines | Seasonal: Mykonos, Thessaloniki |
| Austrian Airlines operated by Tyrolean Airways |
Seasonal: Graz, Linz, Vienna |
| British Airways | Seasonal: London-Heathrow (begins 4 May 2014)[1] |
| Blu-express operated by Blue Panorama Airlines |
Seasonal: Bologna (begins 10 July 2014),[2]Catania, Rome-Fiumicino |
| Condor | Seasonal: Düsseldorf (begins 14 May 2014), Frankfurt, Munich, Stuttgart (begins 14 May 2014) |
| EasyJet | Seasonal: London-Gatwick, Manchester, Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino |
| Edelweiss Air | Seasonal: Zürich |
| Finnair | Seasonal charter: Helsinki |
| Germanwings | Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn |
| Jet Time | Seasonal charter: Copenhagen |
| Jetairfly | Seasonal: Brussels |
| Minoan Air | Seasonal:Heraklion |
| Meridiana | Seasonal: Bologna, Milan-Malpensa, Naples (begins 1 August 2014),[3] Verona |
| Niki | Seasonal: Vienna |
| Norwegian Air Shuttle | Seasonal: Copenhagen, Helsinki (begins 22 June 2014), London-Gatwick,[4] Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda |
| Novair | Seasonal charter: Oslo-Gardermoen[5] |
| Scandinavian Airlines | Seasonal charter: Bergen,[6] Oslo-Gardermoen,[7] Stavanger, Trondheim[8] |
| Small Planet Airlines | Seasonal charter: London-Gatwick |
| Swiss International Airlines | Seasonal: Zürich |
| TAROM | Seasonal charter: Bucharest |
| Thomas Cook Airlines | Seasonal: Birmingham, London-Gatwick, Manchester |
| Thomson Airways | Seasonal: Birmingham , London-Gatwick, Manchester |
| Transavia.com | Seasonal: Amsterdam |
| Transavia.com France | Seasonal: Nantes (begins 9 July 2014), Paris-Orly |
| Volotea | Seasonal: Bari, Naples, Palermo, Venice-Marco Polo |
| Vueling | Seasonal: Barcelona, Bilbao, Florence (begins 13 June 2014), Rome-Fiumicino (begins 23 June 2014)[9] |
References
Portal icon Greece portal
Portal icon Aviation portal
http://blog.continentalclub.co.uk/flights/british-airways-launch-new-heathrow-routes-for-summer-2014/
Blu-express open seasonal routes from Bologna to Greece
Meridiana expands Naples base operations
http://airlineroute.net/2013/10/17/dy-lgw787-s14/
http://www.osl.no/en/osl/flighttimetables
http://www.avinor.no/en/airport/bergen/timetables
http://www.osl.no/en/osl/flighttimetables
http://www.avinor.no/en/airport/trondheim/timetables
Vueling open 24 new routes from Rome
Santorina National Airport, Air Traffic Safety Electronic Engineers Association of Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority
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