Athens Airport
Information and map of the airport of Athens
The Athens International Airport Eleftherios
Venizelos ( named in honor of the great Cretan
politician Eleftherios Venizelos) began operation in
March 2001 and replaced the Hellenikon International
Airport, which served for decades the capital of Greece,
Athens.
The plans for transfer of the airport from Hellenikon
between Alimos and Glyfada to another location began
from the late 60's when Athens began to expand as well
as the density of population and houses around the
Hellenikon Airport. The old airport was separated in the
East airport (International flights) with access from
Vouliagmenis avenue and the West airport (domestic
flights and Olympic airlines main base) with access from
Poseidonos avenue.
In the early 1990's, the Hellenikon airport could not
handle the increased passenger demands of the future -
unless extended. As an extension was now impossible, and
the complaints about noise, pollution and high risk to
multiply, the Greek Government took the decision to
transfer the airport in an area outside the town namely
in Spata. Finally on July 1995, the German company
Hochtief took over the construction of the new Airport
of Athens and joint ownership with the Greek government.
In accordance with the standards of IATA the Athens
Airport code is ATH and in accordance with those of the
ICAO is LGAV. The airport can be access through the
Attica highway and by rail (suburban railway line 3 of
the Athens Metro). There are also express lines of the
Greek buses OASA from various parts of the city to the
airport and taxis.
The airport has one main terminal and a satellite one,
it has 2 runways corridors , the first with dimensions
4000 m. length and 45 metres width and another one with
3800 meters length and 45 metres width . Both runways
have ILS system.
Within the Athens Airport there are numerous shops,
cafes, restaurants, banks, ATM and travel agencies . The
Athens airport is one of the most modern ones in Europe
and in 2008 was honoured with the environmental award
Green Building by the European Commission because it
succeeded in reducing energy consumption despite an
increase in passenger traffic. The Airport is the main gate for
fights to Greece and from Greece to all the world.
Greek
Airports :
Heraklion airport Thessaloniki airport Rhodes Airport
GENERAL INFORMATION AND TELEPHONES
FLIGHT INFORMATION IN REAL TIME ARIVALS DEPARTURES
SPATA AIRPORT SCHEDULE TEL: 2103530000
AIRPORT CONTROL OFFICES
CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY SPATA TEL: 2103534149/50
OLYMPIC
AIRLINES Airport tel: 210 9368424, 210 9362369, 210
9368270
OLYMPIC AIRLINES DOMESTIC&INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS
TEL:210 9666666
AIRPORT POLICE DEPT. TEL:2103538172
OTE (GREEK TELECOM) AIRPORT SERVICES :TEL: 210
3539143
GNTO OFFICE (GREEK NATIONAL TOURISM ORGANIZATION)
TEL :2103530445-8
OFFICIAL PAGE
http://www.aia.gr
AIRLINES
Aer Lingus (Dublin) Aeroflot (Moscow) Aerosvit
Airlines (Kiev, Odessa) Air Baltic (Riga) Air Berlin
(Munich, Leipzig, Nuremberg) Air China (Dubai, Beijing)
Air Europa (Barcelona) Air France (Paris / CDG / ORY)
Air Malta (Malta) Air Moldova (Kisinevo) Air One (Milan
/ MXP, Bologna, Naples, Rome) Air Transat (Montreal,
Toronto) Albanian Airlines (Tirana) Alitalia (Rome)
Armavia (Erivan) Austrian Airlines (Vienna) Blue1
(Helsinki) British Airways (London / LHR) Brussels
Airlines (Brussels) Bulgaria Air (Sofia) Carpatair (Timisoara)
Centralwings (Krakow) Clickair (Barcelona) Continental
Airlines (New York / EWR) CSA Czech Airlines (Prague)
Cyprus Airways (Larnaca, Paphos) Delta Air Lines
(Atlanta, New York -JFK) Donbassaero Airlines (Lvof,
Donetsk) EasyJet (Berlin, London Luton, London Gatwick,
Milan, Paris) Easyjet-Switzerland (Paris / ORY) Egyptair
(Cairo) El Al (Tel Aviv) Emirates (Dubai) Finnair
(Helsinki) Georgian Airways (Tbilisi) Germanwings
(Cologne, Stuttgart) Gulf Air (Bahrain) Iberia (Madrid)
Ilyich Avia (Mariupol) Jat Airways (Belgrade) Jetairfly
(Brussels) KLM (Amsterdam) Kras Air (Moscow) LOT Polish
(Warsaw) Lufthansa (Munich, Frankfurt) MALÉV Hungarian
Airlines (Budapest) MEA Middle East Airlines (Beirut)
MyAir (Bari) Norwegian (Warsaw, Oslo) Olympic Airlines
AIRPORT MAP
AIRPORT PUBLIC TRANSPORT
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