Santorini (Thira) National Airport
| Santorini National Airport Κρατικός Αερολιμένας Σαντορίνης |
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IATA: JTR – ICAO: LGSR
 JTR
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| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Location | Kamari | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 127 ft / 39 m | ||
| Coordinates | 36°23′57.01″N 25°28′45.60″E / 36.3991694°N 25.479333°ECoordinates: 36°23′57.01″N 25°28′45.60″E / 36.3991694°N 25.479333°E | ||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 16L/34R | 6,972 | 2,125 | Asphalt |
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 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.
[edit] Airlines and destinations
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Adria Airways | Seasonal: Ljubljana |
| Aegean Airlines | Athens Seasonal: Larnaca, Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino, Thessaloniki |
| Air Berlin | Seasonal: Nuremberg |
| Arkia Israel Airlines | Seasonal charter: Tel Aviv |
| Astra Airlines | Seasonal: Thessaloniki |
| Austrian Airlines operated by Lauda Air |
Seasonal: Linz, Salzburg, Vienna[1] |
| Blue Panorama Airlines operated by Blu-express |
Rome-Fiumicino |
| Condor | Seasonal: Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart |
| Cyprus Airways | Seasonal: Larnaca |
| EasyJet | Seasonal: London-Gatwick, Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino |
| Edelweiss Air | Seasonal: Zurich |
| Edelweiss Air operated by Swiss International Air Lines | Seasonal: Geneva[2] |
| Germanwings | Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn |
| Iberia operated by Air Nostrum | Seasonal charter: Madrid |
| Jet Time | Seasonal charter: Copenhagen, Billund |
| Jetairfly | Seasonal: Brussels |
| Niki | Seasonal: Vienna |
| Norwegian Air Shuttle | Seasonal: Copenhagen, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda |
| Novair | Seasonal charter: Oslo-Gardermoen[3] |
| Olympic Air | Athens |
| Scandinavian Airlines | Seasonal charter: Bergen[4], Oslo-Gardermoen[5], Stavanger, Trondheim[6] |
| Sky Express | Seasonal: Heraklion, Mykonos, Rhodes |
| Sun d'Or International Airlines operated by El Al |
Seasonal charter: Tel Aviv |
| TAROM | Seasonal: Bucharest-Henri Coandă |
| Thomas Cook Airlines | Seasonal: London-Gatwick, Manchester |
| Thomson Airways | Seasonal: Birmingham, London-Gatwick, Manchester |
| Transavia.com | Seasonal: Amsterdam |
| Transavia.com France | Seasonal: Paris-Orly |
| Vueling Airlines | Seasonal: Bilbao, Barcelona |
[edit] References
- ^ https://www.laudaair.com/book/StartHtml.aspx?a=3&fplan=y&L=0&lang=DE Lauda Air timetable (retrieved 2009-08-31)
- ^ http://www.edelweissair.ch/en/destinations/plan/JTR/
- ^ 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
[edit] External links
- Santorina National Airport, Air Traffic Safety Electronic Engineers Association of Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority
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