Kos Island International Airport

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Kos Island International Airport, Hippocrates
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Κρατικός Αερολιμένας Κω, Ιπποκράτης
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Kos airport.jpg
IATA: KGSICAO: LGKO
KGS is located in Greece
KGS
Location of airport in Greece
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority
Serves Kos Island
Location Andimachia, Greece
Elevation AMSL 409 ft / 126 m
Coordinates 36°47′36.01″N 27°05′30″E / 36.7933361°N 27.09167°E / 36.7933361; 27.09167Coordinates: 36°47′36.01″N 27°05′30″E / 36.7933361°N 27.09167°E / 36.7933361; 27.09167
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
14/32 7,841 2,390 asphalt

Kos Island International Airport, "Hippocrates" (IATA: KGSICAO: LGKO), or Κρατικός Αερολιμένας Κω, Ιπποκράτης in Greek, is an airport serving the island of Kos, Greece. The airport is located near to Andimachia village. It is also the second closest airport to Bodrum after Milas-Bodrum Airport.

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History [edit]

The airport was opened on 4 April, 1964. In 1974 the runway was extended to 2,400m. With the increased traffic at the airport in 1980 was built new terminal building. In 1997, the terminal building was renovated and expanded.

Airlines and destinations [edit]

Airlines Destinations
Adria Airways Seasonal charter: Ljubljana
Aegean Airlines Athens
Seasonal: Thessaloniki, Moscow-Domodedovo, St. Petersburg
Seasonal charter: Bucharest-Henri Coandă (resumes 4 June 2013), Maribor (begins June 14 2013), Östersund, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion
Air Berlin Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse, Berlin-Tegel, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Munich, Zürich
Air Bucharest Seasonal: Bucharest-Henri Coandă (begins 9 June 2013)
Air Méditerranée Seasonal: Marseille
Arkefly Seasonal: Amsterdam
Arkia Israel Airlines Seasonal: Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion
Austrian Airlines
operated by Tyrolean Airways
Seasonal: Linz, Vienna
Seasonal charter: Innsbruck, Graz [1]
Bluebird Airways Seasonal charter: Moscow-Domodedovo
Blue Panorama Airlines
operated by Blu-express
Seasonal: Rome-Fiumicino
Condor Seasonal: Berlin-Schönefeld, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Manchester [Begins 11 April 2014], Munich
EasyJet Seasonal: London-Gatwick, Milan-Malpensa
Edelweiss Air Seasonal: Geneva, Zürich
Enter Air Seasonal charter: Gdańsk, Katowice, Poznań, Warsaw-Chopin, Wroclaw
Finnair Seasonal charter: Helsinki
Germanwings Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn
Hamburg Airways Seasonal charter: Dresden, Friedrichshafen, Hamburg, Münster/Osnabrück [2]
Helvetic Airways Seasonal: Bern
Holidays Czech Airlines Seasonal charter: Ostrava, Prague
Jet2.com Seasonal:Leeds/Bradford (begins 6 May 2014), Manchester
Jetairfly Seasonal: Brussels
Livingston Seasonal charter: Milan-Malpensa
Monarch Airlines Seasonal: London-Gatwick, Manchester
Neos Seasonal: Milan-Malpensa
Norwegian Air Shuttle Seasonal: Copenhagen, Oslo-Gardermoen
Sesonal charter: Helsinki
Olympic Air Astypalaia (PSO), Athens, Kalymnos (PSO), Leros (PSO), Rhodes (PSO)
Ryanair Seasonal : Bergamo, Bologna, Hahn, Kaunas, Kraków, Leeds/Bradford, Liverpool, London-Stansted, Oslo-Rygge, Pisa, Rome-Ciampino
Scandinavian Airlines Seasonal charter: Copenhagen, Oslo-Gardermoen, Trondheim
Sky Express Heraklion
Small Planet Airlines Seasonal charter: Budapest, Manchester, Milan-Malpensa, Vilnius
SmartWings Seasonal: Brno, Ostrava, Prague
TAROM Seasonal charter:Bucharest-Henri Coandă (resumes 21 June 2013)
Thomas Cook Airlines Seasonal charter: Birmingham, Glasgow, London-Gatwick, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium Seasonal charter: Brussels
Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia Seasonal charter: Copenhagen, Helsinki
Thomson Airways[3] Seasonal charter: Bristol (begins 06 May 2014), Birmingham, Cardiff, Doncaster/Sheffield, East Midlands, Glasgow-International (begins 07 May 2014), London-Gatwick, Manchester, Newcastle
Transavia.com Seasonal: Amsterdam, Groningen, Eindhoven, Rotterdam
Travel Service Airlines Seasonal charter: Brno, Budapest, Ostrava, Pardubice, Prague
TUIfly Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hannover, Munich, Stuttgart, Zweibrücken (resumes 10 June 2013)
Vueling Seasonal: Barcelona (begins 24 June 2013)

References [edit]

  1. ^ https://myholiday.austrian.com/book/StartHtml.aspx?a=3&fplan=y&L=1&lang=EN
  2. ^ http://www.hamburgairways.com/en/main-menu/passengers/route-network/
  3. ^ http://flights.firstchoice.co.uk/firstchoice/en-GB/timetable/findbyroute?departure=KGS&destination=BRS

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