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Athens International Airport "Eleftherios Venizelos" (Greek: Διεθνής Αερολιμένας Αθηνών "Ελευθέριος Βενιζέλος", Diethnís Aeroliménas Athinón "Elefthérios Venizélos"; (IATA: ATH, ICAO: LGAV), began operation on 29 March 2001 and is the primary civilian airport that serves the city of Athens and the region of Attica. The airport is the major hub and base of Aegean Airlines and Olympic Air. The airport serves just under 13 million passengers annually and its name honors the Greek statesman Eleftherios Venizelos. As of late 2011, the airport is the thirtieth busiest airport in Europe.

Description

The airport was opened in March 2001 to replace the now-closed Athens (Ellinikon) International Airport. The airport is located between the towns of Markopoulo, Koropi, Spata and Loutsa, about 20 km (12 mi) to the east of central Athens (30 km (19 mi) by road, due to intervening hills). The airport is named after Elefthérios Venizélos, the prominent Cretan political figure and Prime Minister of Greece, who made an outstanding contribution to the development of Greek aviation and the Hellenic Air Force in the 1930s.

The airport currently has two terminals: the Main Terminal, and the Satellite Terminal accessible by a foot-tunnel from the Main Terminal. As of 2009, a new above ground link to the midfield satellite terminal is under construction with a completion date by the end of 2010.[5] Once completed, the complex will be used as a Schengen facility.[5] It has two runways that are each approximately 4 km (2.5 mi) long. The airport was developed by public-private partnership with Greece holding 55% of the shares.

The airport is designed to be upgraded over the ensuing years in order to accommodate the increase in air travel, and its upgrades are planned in a six-phase framework. The first (current) phase initially allowed the airport to accommodate 16 million passengers a year, but was upgraded to 21 million passengers a year without progressing to the next phase thanks primarily to IT advances.[5] The sixth phase will allow the airport to accommodate as many as 50 million passengers a year. The current runways are designed to accommodate 50 million passengers a year with the completion of the sixth phase.[5]

The airport has received approval from the European Aviation Safety Agency[6] and the Federal Aviation Administration[6] for take-offs and landings of the biggest passenger jet worldwide, the Airbus A380.[6] The first Airbus A380 to visit 'Eleftherios Venizelos' Athens International Airport made an emergency landing on 13 April 2011 as a passenger suffered a heart attack. The first scheduled A380 flight took place on October 26 from Emirates Airlines.

The Financial crisis of 2007–08 severely reduced traffic at the airport. United Airlines, Thai Airways, Gulf Air, Czech Airlines and Singapore Airlines are among the foreign airlines that ended their services to Athens. Delta Airlines terminated its winter scheduled service to New York City in 2012, leaving Greece without a direct connection to the United States for the first time in almost 70 years.[7] In 2013, the airport handled 12,536,038 passengers, 3.2% fewer than in 2012.[8]

However, 2014 seems to signal a recovery for the airport's passenger traffic. More than ten new airlines started, or are scheduled to start, new flights to and from Athens. AEGEAN Airlines strengthened its destination network by 30% within the last six months and Ryanair established a new base in the Athens Airport. Starting April 1st, Ryanair serves six new destinations and will increase passenger mobility by 25%. Already for the first three months the airport recorded an increase in passenger mobility by 8.4%. Singapore Airlines returns to Athens on June 9th. Similarly, Gulf Air resumes flights on June 16th.[9][10] Emirates, Etihad Airways and Qatar Airways increased flights to Athens starting from March.[11][12][13]
Terminals
Check-in-area
Main Terminal

The Main Terminal Building handles the all intra-Schengen flights, as well as several non-Schengen flights. All check-in desks are located in the Main Terminal. It has three separate levels, one for arrivals, one for departures and a food court level complete with a view of the eastern runway.

Hall A: Operate flights to Non-schengen countries and Non-European countries.
Hall B: Operate flights to Intra-schengen countries and Domestic flights.

Satellite Terminal

The Satellite Terminal handles non-Schengen flights only. It is easily accessible through an underground link complete with moving walkways. In 2009, part of the Satellite Terminal was closed and a new above ground link to the midfield satellite terminal was completed by the end of 2010. The complex is now used as a Schengen facility.[5] It has two levels, one for arrivals and the other for departures.
Airlines and destinations
Scheduled

Airlines Destinations Hall / Entrance Check-in
Aegean Airlines Abu Dhabi (begins 28 May 2014), Beirut (begins 6 June 2014), Belgrade, Birmingham (begins 10 June 2014), Bucharest, Istanbul-Atatürk, Kiev-Zhuliany, Larnaca, London-Heathrow, Moscow-Domodedovo, Tbilisi, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion, Tirana
Seasonal: Amman-Queen Alia (begins 12 June 2014), Izmir (begins 10 June 2014)[14], London-Gatwick, Manchester, Saint Petersburg[15]
A/4
Aegean Airlines Alexandroupolis, Barcelona, Berlin-Tegel, Brussels, Budapest, Catania (begins 28 June 2014),[14] Cephalonia, Chania, Chios, Copenhagen (begins 22 May 2014), Corfu, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hamburg (begins 27 May 2014), Hanover, Heraklion, Ioannina, Kavala, Kos, Limnos, Madrid, Milan-Malpensa, Marseille, Mykonos, Mytilini, Munich, Nantes, Nuremberg, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Prague, Rhodes, Rome-Fiumicino, Santorini, Samos, Skyros, Sofia, Stockholm-Arlanda (begins 31 May 2014), Stuttgart, Thessaloniki, Vienna, Warsaw-Chopin, Zurich (begins 28 May 2014)
Seasonal: Lyon, Strasbourg, Venice-Marco Polo
B/4
Aer Lingus Seasonal: Dublin A/1
Aeroflot Moscow-Sheremetyevo A/2
Air Armenia Yerevan (begins 22 May 2014)[16] A/1
Air Canada Rouge Seasonal: Montréal-Trudeau, Toronto-Pearson A/1
Air China Beijing-Capital, Munich A/3
Air France Marseille, Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Seasonal: Nice, Toulouse
B/2
Air Malta Malta, Sofia B/1
Air Moldova Chișinău[17] A/1
Air One Seasonal: Venice-Marco Polo B/1
Air Serbia Belgrade A/1
Air Transat Seasonal: Montréal-Trudeau, Toronto-Pearson A/1
airBaltic Seasonal: Riga B/1
Alitalia Rome-Fiumicino
Seasonal: Milan-Linate (begins 1 August 2014) [18]
B/2
Arkia Israel Airlines Seasonal: Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion (begins 2 June 2014) A/1
Astra Airlines Seasonal: Erbil[19][20] A/1
Astra Airlines Sitia B/1
Austrian
operated by Tyrolean Airways
Vienna B/3
British Airways London-Heathrow A/1
Brussels Airlines Seasonal: Brussels [21] B/1
Bulgaria Air Sofia A/1
Croatia Airlines Seasonal: Dubrovnik, Split,[22] Zagreb A/1
Cyprus Airways Larnaca A/1
Delta Air Lines Seasonal: New York-JFK A/2
easyJet Edinburgh, London-Gatwick, Manchester A/1
easyJet Berlin-Schönefeld, Hamburg,[23] Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino
Seasonal: Paris-Orly
B/1
easyJet Switzerland Seasonal: Geneva B/1
EgyptAir Cairo A/3
EgyptAir
operated by EgyptAir Express
Alexandria-Borg El Arab
Seasonal: Cairo
A/3
El Al Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion A/1
Emirates Dubai A/1
Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi [11] A/1
Germanwings Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn, Stuttgart B/1
Gulf Air Bahrain (resumes 16 June 2014) [24] A/1
Iberia Madrid[25] B/4
Iberia Express Seasonal: Madrid B/4
Jetairfly Seasonal: Brussels B/1
KLM Amsterdam B/2
LOT Polish Airlines Warsaw-Chopin B/1
Lufthansa Frankfurt, Munich B/4
Mahan Air Tehran-Imam Khomeini (begins 25 May 2014)[26] A/1
Meridiana Seasonal: Naples (begins 6 June 2014)[27] B/-
Middle East Airlines Beirut A/1
Minoan Air Seasonal: Heraklion B/2
Norwegian Air Shuttle Seasonal: Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda B/1
Olympic Air Astypalaia, Ikaria, Kalymnos, Karpathos, Kythira, Leros, Milos, Naxos, Paros, Skiathos, Syros, Zakynthos [28] B/4
Pegasus Airlines Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Izmir A/1
Qatar Airways Doha (ends 27 May 2014), Doha-Hamad (begins 28 May 2014) A/2
Royal Jordanian Amman-Queen Alia A/1
Ryanair London-Stansted, Paphos A/1
Ryanair Bergamo, Brussels-Charleroi (begins 26 October 2014), Chania, Rhodes, Rome-Ciampino (begins 26 October 2014), Thessaloniki B/1
S7 Airlines Seasonal: Moscow-Domodedovo A/2
Scandinavian Airlines Copenhagen, Stockholm-Arlanda
Seasonal: Gothenburg-Landvetter (begins 1 July 2014), Oslo-Gardermoen
B/4
Sky Express Heraklion, Kastoria, Kozani B/1
Singapore Airlines Seasonal: Singapore (resumes 9 June 2014)[29] A/1
Swiss International Air Lines Geneva, Zürich B/1
TAROM Bucharest A/2
Transaero Airlines Seasonal: Saint Petersburg A/1
Transavia.com Amsterdam, Eindhoven B/3
Transavia.com France Paris-Orly
Seasonal: Lyon, Nantes[30]
B/3
Turkish Airlines Istanbul-Atatürk A/3
Ukraine International Airlines Kiev-Boryspil A/3
Ural Airlines Krasnodar[31] A/1
US Airways Seasonal: Philadelphia A/1
Vueling Barcelona, Rome-Fiumicino (begins 10 June 2014)[32]
Seasonal: Bilbao
B/1
White Airways Seasonal: Corfu (begins 21 July 2014) , Lisbon (begins 21 July 2014)[33][34] TBA


Charter

Airlines Destinations
Adria Airways Seasonal: Ljubljana
Aegean Airlines Winter seasonal: Helsinki, Rovaniemi
Summer seasonal: Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Rostov-on-Don, Toulouse, Verona
Aeolian Airlines Heraklion, Istanbul-Ataturk, Rhodes, Rome-Fiumicino, Thessaloniki
Seasonal: Mostar
Air Bucharest Seasonal: Bucharest
Enter Air Seasonal: Catania
Europe Airpost Seasonal: Mykonos, Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Germania Seasonal: Munich
Japan Airlines Seasonal: Tokyo-Narita
Orenair Seasonal Kazan, Yekaterinburg


Cargo

Airlines Destinations Terminal
DHL Aviation Leipzig/Halle, Pisa Cargo
DHL Aviation
operated by DHL Air UK
Leipzig/Halle Cargo
FedEx Dubai ,Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion Cargo
Lufthansa Cargo Frankfurt Cargo
Royal Jordanian Cargo Amman-Queen Alia, Larnaca Cargo
TNT Airways Bergamo, Larnaca, Liège Cargo
UPS Airlines Ljubljana, Milan-Malpensa, New York-JFK, Paris-Charles de Gaulle Cargo


Destination maps

Athens International Airport is one of the thirty five busiest airport in Europe, in 2013 it ranked at 35th busiest airport by total passenger traffic after Saint Perersburg and Málaga which are all international airports.

Passenger numbers at El. Venizelos[35]
Year
Passengers
handled[nb 1]
Cargo
(Kilograms)
Aircraft
Movements
2002 11,827,448 106,813,249 159,467
2003 12,252,317 109,741,122 170,129
2004 13,662,332 118,999,247 191,048
2005 14,281,020 115,942,974 180,936
2006 15,079,708 120,174,745 190,872
2007 16,538,403 118,972,376 205,295
2008 16,446,491 122,195,965 199,418
2009 16,225,589 104,520,932 210,147
2010 15,411,099 96,676,103 191.766
2011 14,446,963 85,831,845 173,296
2012 12,944,041 76,424,557 153,295
2013 12,536,038 74,869,128 140,448
2014 [March] 2,371,572 --,---,--- 27,067


Ranking of Countries according to Passenger Traffic[36]


Ground transport
Rail

A rail station immediately adjacent to the airport terminal is accessible by an elevated walkway. The station is served by both the Athens Metro and suburban rail service Proastiakos. The station is connected with line 3 of the Athens Metro,[37] while it is also connected to the Athens Central Railway Station (Larissis Station) and the port of Piraeus as well as to Corinth via Proastiakos.[38] The ticket price is 8 euros (September 2013).
Preceding station Athens Metro Following station
Koropi
towards Agia Marina
Line 3 Terminus
Preceding station Proastiakos Following station
Koropi
towards Kiato
Kiato – Airport Terminus
Road

The airport is accessible by the Attiki Odos toll highway from the centre and northern Athens, Varis-Koropiou Avenue from the western part, Laurio Ave. from the South, and Spata-Loutsa Avenue from the East. A variety of parking options are available on site at the airport in three different parking lots. Located at the arrivals level, opposite the airport terminal, the airport offers short-term parking for up to five hours with 1,357 parking spaces available in lots P1 and P2.[39] Long-term parking is located across the airport's main access road (Attiki Odos) with 5,802 parking spaces in lot P3.[40] A free shuttle bus is available to transport passengers, while the lots are also accessible by foot to the terminal. Premium valet service is also offered at the Departures level by Entrance 3.[41]

Currently, all of the parking lots are exposed to the elements. As of 2009, a new 3,800 space multi-story parking structure is in the design phase and is expected to open in the summer of 2011.[5]
Taxi

Taxis are available at the designated Taxi waiting area located by exit 3 of the arrivals level.[42] Limousine service is also available upon request by the inner curbside of the arrivals level between exits 3 and 4.[42]
Bus

Four bus lines (X93, X95, X96, X97) connect directly to the Athens greater area, the intercity bus stations (KTEL Kifissos Bus Terminal and Lionson bus terminal) and Piraeus.[43] Buses disembark passengers at the departures level and depart from the arrivals level between exits 4 and 5.[43]

Regional bus services by KTEL Express operate to the airport, currently connecting the airport to Rafina, Markopoulo, Lavrio, Kalyvia, and Keratea.[43] Passengers disembark at the departures level, and depart from the arrivals level between exits 2 and 3.[43]

No. Destination Operator Via Frequency Trip duration
X93 Kifissos Bus Terminal for intercity buses OASA Lision Bus Terminal 15–30 minutes 1 hour and 5 minutes
X95 Syntagma Square, Othonos St. OASA Ethinkis Aminas Metro Station, Nomismatokopio Metro Station 20–25 minutes 1 hour and 10 minutes
X96 Port of Piraeus, Akti Vasileiadi St., Gate E1 OASA N. Faliro Metro Station, East Athens Bay, Kalamaki, Glyfada 30 minutes 1 hour and 30 minutes
X97[nb 2] Ellinikon station on Athens Metro Line 2 OASA Hellenic Military Education of Evelpidon 40–50 minutes 50 minutes


Other facilities

Olympic Air has its head office in Building 57 on the airport property.[44][45] Olympic Air also has offices in Building 53A.[46]

The Air Accident Investigation and Aviation Safety Board has an office in Office 1311 in Building 11.[47]
Awards

European Airport of the Year - 2004
Skytrax award for best Airport in Southern Europe - 2005, 2006 and 2008[48]
GreenBuilding Award for its exemplary energy saving figures reflected in the two previous years (2006, 2007) – 2008[49]

Notes

Number of passengers including domestic, international and transit
Bus time departures from 00:05 until 04:55, bus departs from Dalfni Metro Station

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"Quarterly Edition of Olympic Air January 2013." (Archive) Olympic Air. p. 4. "OLYMPIC ON AIR Periodic Publication for Olympic Air ADDRESS Athens International Airport “Eleftherios Venizelos”, building 53Α, 19019 Spata-Artemida Attikis, T/ +30 210 3550500, F/ 210 3550632" - Greek: "OLYMPIC ON AIR Περιοδική έκδοση για την Olympic Air id∆ΙΕΥ-ΘΥΝΣΗ Διεθνής Αερολιμένας Αθηνών «Ελευθέριος Βενιζέλος», κτήριο 53Α, Τ.Κ. 19019 Σπάτα-Αρτέμιδα Αττικής, T/ 210 3550500, F/ 210 3550632"
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