Thessaloniki Airport

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Macedonia
Airport Makedonia Airport
Αερολιμένας Μακεδονία
View from the apron side
Characteristics
ICAO code LGTS
IATA code SKG
Coordinates

40 ° 31 '11 "  N , 22 ° 58' 15"  E Coordinates: 40 ° 31 '11 "  N , 22 ° 58' 15"  E
Height above MSL 7 m (23  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 10 km south of Thessaloniki
Street Autokinetodromos A25 number.svg, (via feeder )GR-EO-16.svg
GR-EO-67.svg
Local transport Bus route X1, N1 (night bus) of the OASTH
Basic data
opening 1930
operator Fraport Hellas
Terminals 1
Passengers 6,897,057 (2019)
Air freight 4,552 t (2019)
Flight
movements 		55,738 (2019)
Runways
10/28 2440 m × 50 m asphalt
16/34 2410 m × 60 m asphalt

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The Thessaloniki airport is a Greek airport in Thessaloniki and the main airport of the Greek north. Its official name is Makedonia Airport ( Greek Αερολιμένας Θεσσαλονίκης Μακεδονία ), named after the region of Macedonia in northern Greece.

It is also used as the military airfield of the Greek Air Force and is known as the Mikra Air Base . During the Second World War, German emergency airplanes occasionally operated from here .

Location and transport links

Thessaloniki airport map
Thessaloniki airport, aerial view

The airport has two runways that cross in the middle. It is located about 13 km southeast of the city of Thessaloniki near the town of Mikra directly on the Thermaic Gulf .

There is a connection to the motorway 25 ( Nea Moudania , Chalkidiki - inner ring Thessaloniki - Serres ) via the short motorway slip road ( national road 67 ). There is a connection to the GR-A2 (Autobahn 2) in the Evkarpias triangle .

There is no direct rail connection. It is only possible to get to the Thessaloniki train station, which is about 15 km away, by taxi or bus. The bus lines 01X (during the day) and 01N (late in the evening to early in the morning) run via the city center and the train station to the train station of the national KTEL buses.

Airlines and Destinations

With Berlin , Düsseldorf , Frankfurt , Hanover , Munich , Nuremberg and Stuttgart, Aegean Airlines flies to most of the destinations in German-speaking countries. In addition, Germanwings offers year-round flights to Cologne / Bonn and Stuttgart, while Ryanair offers year-round flights to Dortmund . Austrian Airlines to Vienna . In addition, there are numerous seasonal flights from, for example, Condor , easyJet to and from airports in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

expansion

The current terminal was rebuilt and expanded in 1997. This was followed by an extension of runway 10/28 by 1,000 m further into the sea; the resulting runway 10/28 (new) will have a length of 3,440 m and a width of 50 m. At the same time, a taxiway will be created so that an artificial embankment will be created in Thermaikos Bay measuring 1064 m × 450 m.

The next expansion phase should include a new Terminal 2. The plan provided for a terminal with two working levels (departure and arrival) with passenger boarding bridges and 100 check-in counters as well as other measures. In the course of privatization from 2011, the plans were put on hold.

In November 2014, the Fraport- Copelouzos consortium was awarded the contract to operate the airport for 40 years and prevailed against two other international consortia.

In September 2018, construction began on a new airport building with a size of approximately 34,000 square meters. The existing building is also to be refurbished and the runways are to be renewed. The construction work should be completed in 2021.

approach

The approach to Thessaloniki Airport is particularly worth seeing if you are landing from the west. The landing approach then takes place over the sea ( Thermaic Gulf ), on the left you can see Thessaloniki. In the case of a landing approach from the east, a landing approach takes place at a fairly low altitude over Mikra and other suburbs of Thessaloniki, as there is no more than 5 km to 6 km distance between the first mountain ranges of Chalkidiki and the runway.

Web links

Commons : Thessaloniki International Airport  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Air Traffic Statistics. SKG-Airport.gr, accessed on June 8, 2020 (English).
  2. ↑ AIR TRAFFIC STATISTICS 2019. In: ypa.gr. Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority, accessed June 8, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Timetable 01X: AIRPORT - INTERCITY BUS TERMINAL (VIA CITY CENTER) ( English ) ORGANIZATION OF URBAN TRANSPORTATION OF THESSALONIKI. Retrieved April 8, 2019.
  4. ↑ Timetable 01N: AIRPORT – INTERCITY BUS TERMINAL (VIA CITY CENTER) - NIGHT LINE ( English ) ORGANIZATION OF URBAN TRANSPORTATION OF THESSALONIKI. Retrieved April 8, 2019.
  5. ↑ Fraport AG press release of November 25, 2014: http://www.fraport.de/de/presse/newsroom/archiv/2014/fraport-konsortium-erhaelt-zuschlag-fuer-griechische-regionalflu.html accessed on 16. July 2015
  6. ↑ ch: Fraport AG | Fraport-Copelouzos consortium signs contracts for the operation of 14 Greek regional airports. In: Edition 92/2015. Fraport AG, December 14, 2015, accessed on January 3, 2019 .
  7. ↑ dpa: Airport operator: Fraport is building a new airport building in Thessaloniki. In: Handelsblatt. September 19, 2018, accessed January 3, 2019 .