Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport
Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport (IATA: ATH, ICAO: LGAV) is the only civil airport serving the city of Athens, Greece. The airport is the main operating base and hub for Olympic Airlines, Greece's state airline, as well as Aegean Airlines. It began operating on March 29, 2001.
Features
The airport is located between the towns of Markopoulo, Koropi, Spata and Loutsa, about 20 kilometers east of the center of Athens. The airport was named in honor of the Cretan Eleftherios Venizelos, an important politician and former Prime Minister of Greece, who played an important role in the Cretan uprising against the Ottoman occupation of Crete in 1896.
It currently has two terminals, the Main Terminal and the Satellite Terminal, which is accessed through a tunnel from the Main Terminal. The slopes have an extension of approximately 4 km. The airport was built by a public-private consortium. Greece retains 55% of the shares. It is considered one of the most expensive airports in Europe, since its restaurants and cafes pay high rents, as well as airlines, which have to pay high commissions for using the airport. The airport was recognized with the title of 'European Airport of the Year 2004', within the framework of the annual awards carried out by the Institute of Transport Management (ITM).
The airport was designed to undergo future expansions to cope with growing passenger traffic. The expansions were planned to be carried out in six phases. The first phase (current phase) allows the airport to operate with 16 million passengers per year. The sixth phase will allow the airport to handle traffic of 50 million passengers per year.
In 2010, the airport recorded traffic of 15,411,099 passengers, 5.0% less than in 2009.
A train station next to the airport terminal (and accessible via an elevated pedestrian bridge) was inaugurated on the occasion of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games. The station allows access to Line 3 of the Athens Metro and to the Proastiakos suburban train service. The airport is also accessed via the Attiki Odos Highway.
In 2005 and 2006, the airport was recognized by Skytrax as the best airport in Southern Europe.
The airport replaced the old Hellinikon International Airport.
Robotic security
The new airport is equipped with two robotic systems (named 'Hercules' and 'Ulysses'), capable of handling suspicious devices, and were designed to protect people and facilities of the airport by safely identifying and removing explosives.
Hercules was donated by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation to the airport. It is a system capable of safely collecting and transporting explosives for destruction. It is equipped with a spherical-shaped tank with a diameter of 120 cm and two robotic arms.
Ulysses is a system valued at €94,000, donated by Soukos Robots ABEE. This system was manufactured to serve as a supplement to the Hercules robot, since it can access hard-to-reach places such as bathrooms, buses or aircraft. It is a light but very efficient robot, equipped with a system that absorbs shocks and allows movements on uneven surfaces.
Indirectly related incidents
- On 14 August 2005, Helios Airways flight 522, a Boeing 737-300 (5B-DBY) crashed in the vicinity of Grammatikon (Attika) while flying from Larnaca International Airport in Cyprus to Venizelos Eleftherios International Airport.
Airlines and destinations
| Cities by country | Airport name | Airlines | Aircraft | Weekly frequency | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | |||||
 Egypt
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| Cairo | Cairo International Airport |  Aegean Airlines EgyptAir | A32x | ||
| North America | |||||
 Canada
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| Montreal | Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport |  Air Canada | B777-333ER | ||
| Toronto | Toronto Pearson Airport | Air Canada | B777-333ER | ||
 United States
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| Chicago | O'Hare International Airport | American Airlines | |||
| Philadelphia | Philadelphia International Airport | American Airlines | |||
| Newark | International Airport Freedom of Newark | United Airlines  Emirates | |||
| New York | John F. Kennedy International Airport | American Airlines Delta Air Lines | |||
| Asia | |||||
 Saudi Arabia
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| Yeda | Rey Abdulaziz International Airport | Aegean Airlines | A32x | ||
 Armenia
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| Yerevan | Zvartnots International Airport | Aegean Airlines | A32x | ||
 Baréin
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| Manama | Baréin International Airport | Gulf Air | |||
 Qatar
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| Doha | Hamad International Airport | Qatar Airways | |||
 China
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| Beijing | International Airport of Beijing-Capital | Air China | |||
 Cyprus
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| Larnaca | International Airport of Larnaca | Aegean Airlines Cyprus Airways Gulf Air TUS Airways  Wizz Air | B787-9 A32x | ||
| Paphos | Pafos International Airport | Aegean Airlines  Ryanair (starts May 5, 2022) | |||
| United Arab Emirates
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| Abu Dhabi | Abu Dhabi International Airport | Etihad Airways | |||
| Dubai | Dubai International Airport | Emirates | |||
 Georgia
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| Kutaisi | Kopitnari Airport | Wizz Air | A32x | ||
| Tiflis | International Airport of Tiflis | Aegean Airlines | A32x | ||
 Israel
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| Tel Aviv | Ben Gurión International Airport | Aegean Airlines  Alitalia The Al Israir Airlines Ryanair | A32x B7x7 B737 | ||
 Jordan
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| Haman | Queen Alia International Airport | Aegean Airlines Royal Jordanian | A32x | ||
| Alqaba | Rey Husein International Airport | Ryanair | B737 | ||
 Kazakhstan
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| Nursultan | Nazarbáyev International Airport | Aegean Airlines | |||
 Lebanon
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| Beirut | Rafic Hariri International Airport | Aegean Airlines Middle East Airlines | A32x A3xx | ||
 Singapore
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| Singapore | Singapore International Airport | Scoot | |||
| Europe | |||||
 Albania
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| Tirana | International Airport Mother Teresa | Aegean Airlines | A32x | ||
 Germany
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| Berlin | Berlin-Brandenburg Airport Willy Brandt | Aegean Airlines  easyJet Europe Ryanair | A32x A3xx B737 | ||
| Cologne | Cologne/Bonn Airport | Eurowings Ryanair | B737 | ||
| Düsseldorf | International Airport of Düsseldorf | Aegean Airlines Eurowings | A32x | ||
| Frankfurt am Main | Frankfurt am Main Airport | Aegean Airlines Lufthansa Ryanair | A32x B737 | ||
| Hamburg | Hamburg Airport | Aegean Airlines | A32x | ||
| Memmingen | Memmingen Airport | Ryanair | B737 | ||
| Munich | Munich International Airport | Aegean Airlines Lufthansa | A32x | ||
| Karlsruhe | Karlsruhe-Baden Baden Airport | Ryanair | B737 | ||
| Stuttgart | Stuttgart Airport | Aegean Airlines Eurowings | A32x | ||
| Austria
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| Vienna | Vienna International Airport | Aegean Airlines Austrian Airlines Ryanair | A32x B737 | ||
.svg){kind=small} Belgium
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| Brussels | Brussels-National Airport | Aegean Airlines | A32x | ||
| Charleroi | Brussels South Airport | Ryanair | B737 | ||
 Bulgaria
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| Sofia | Sofia Airport | Aegean Airlines Bulgaria Air | A32x | ||
 Denmark
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| Copenhagen | Copenhagen-Kastrup Airport | Aegean Airlines  Norwegian Air Shuttle SAS | A32x B737 | ||
 Spain
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| Barcelona | Airport Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat | Aegean Airlines Ryanair Vueling | A32x B737 A3xx | ||
| Madrid | Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport | Aegean Airlines Iberia | A32x A3xx | ||
| Malaga | Malaga-Costa del Sol Airport | Aegean Airlines | A32x | ||
| Bilbao | Bilbao Airport | Aegean Airlines Volotea | A32x | ||
| Valencia | Airport of Valencia | Aegean Airlines | A32x | ||
 Finland
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| Helsinki | Helsinki-Vantaa Airport | Norwegian Air Shuttle | B737 | ||
.svg){kind=small} France
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| Paris | Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport | Aegean Airlines Air France | A32x | ||
| Paris-Orly Airport | Transavia France | B737NG | |||
| Hungary
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| Budapest | Budapest-Ferenc Liszt Airport | Aegean Airlines Ryanair Wizz Air | A32x B737 A32x | ||
| Ireland
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| Dublin | Dublin Airport | Ryanair | B737 | ||
| Italy
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| Bergamo | Airport of Bergamo-Orio al Serio | Ryanair | B737 | ||
| Bologna | Bologna Airport | Aegean Airlines Ryanair | A32x B737 | ||
| Catania | Catania-Fontanarossa Airport | Ryanair | B737 | ||
| Milan | Milan-Linate Airport | Alitalia | |||
| Milan-Malpensa Airport | Aegean Airlines | A32x | |||
| Naples | Naples-Capodichino Airport | Aegean Airlines easyJet Europe | A32x A3xx | ||
| Palermo | Palermo-Punta Raisi Airport | Ryanair | B737 | ||
| Rome | Rome-Ciampino Airport | Ryanair | B737 | ||
| Rome-Fiumicino Airport | Aegean Airlines Alitalia The Al | A32x B7x7 | |||
| Venice | Marco Polo International Airport | Aegean Airlines Volotea | A32x A3xceo | ||
 Lithuania
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| Vilna | Vilna Airport | Ryanair | B737 | ||
 Macedonia
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| Skopie | Skopie Airport | Aegean Airlines | A32x | ||
 Malta
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| Malta | International Airport of Malta | Ryanair | B737 | ||
| Norway
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| Oslo | Oslo-Gardermoen Airport | Norwegian Air Shuttle | B737 | ||
 Netherlands
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| Amsterdam | Amsterdam-Schiphol Airport | Aegean Airlines KLM Transavia | A32x B737NG | ||
| Eindhoven | Eindhoven Airport | Ryanair Transavia | B737 B737NG | ||
 Poland
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| Krakow | Krakow-John Paul II Airport | Ryanair | B737 | ||
| Katowice | Katowice International Airport | Ryanair Wizz Air | B737 A32x | ||
| Poznan | Poznan-Ławica Airport | Ryanair | B737 | ||
| Warsaw | Warsaw-Chopin Airport | Aegean Airlines | A32x | ||
| Warsaw-Modlin Airport | Ryanair | B737 | |||
 Portugal
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| Lisbon | Lisbon Airport | Aegean Airlines | A32x | ||
.svg){kind=small} United Kingdom
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| Brístol | International Airport of Bristol | easyJet | A3xx | ||
| Edinburgh | Edinburgh Airport | easyJet | A3xx | ||
| London | London-Gatwick Airport | Aegean Airlines easyJet | A32x A3xx | ||
| London-Heathrow Airport | Aegean Airlines British Airways | ||||
| London-Luton Airport | Ryanair Wizz Air | B737 A32x | |||
| London-Stansted Airport | Ryanair | B737 | |||
| Manchester | Manchester Airport | easyJet | A3xx | ||
 Czech Republic
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| Prague | Ruzyně International Airport | Aegean Airlines | A32x | ||
 Romania
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| Bucharest | International Airport of Bucharest-Henri Coandă | Aegean Airlines TAROM | A32x | ||
 Russia
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| Moscow | Moscow-Domodovo International Airport | Aegean Airlines | A32x | ||
| Moscow-Sheremétievo International Airport | Aeroflot | ||||
 Serbia
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| Belgrade | Belgrade-Nikola Tesla Airport | Aegean Airlines Air Serbia | A32x | ||
 Sweden
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| Stockholm | Stockholm-Arlanda Airport | Aegean Airlines Norwegian Air Shuttle SAS | A32x B737 | ||
 Switzerland
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| Basel | Basel-Mulhouse-Friburg Airport | easyJet Switzerland | A3xx | ||
| Geneva | Geneva International Airport | Aegean Airlines Swiss | A32x A | ||
| Zurich | Zurich International Airport | Aegean Airlines Swiss | A32x | ||
 Turkey
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| Smirna | Airport of Esmirna-Adnan Menderes | Aegean Airlines | A32x | ||
| Istanbul | Istanbul International Airport | Aegean Airlines Turkish Airlines | A32x | ||
| Sabiha Gökçen International Airport | Pegasus Airlines | ||||
 Ukraine
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| Kiev | Boryspil International Airport | Ryanair Ukraine International Airlines | B737 | ||
Regular
| Airlines | Destinations | Section / Billing |
|---|---|---|
| Aegean Airlines | Abu Dabi, Hamann-Queen Alia, Beirut, Belgrade, Bucharest, Cairo, Istanbul-Atatürk, Kiev-Zhuliany, Larnac, London-Heathrow, Manchester, Moscow-Domodedovo, Sofia, Tiflis, Tel Aviv, Tirana Seasonal: Birmingham, Esmirna, London-Gatwick, St. Petersburg | A/4 |
| Aegean Airlines | Alexandroupolis, Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels-National, Budapest, Cefalonia, Chania, Quios, Copenhagen, Corfu, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt am Main, Geneva, Heraclion, Ioannina, Kavala, Kos, Lemnos, Madrid, Milan-Malpensa, Marseille, Miconos, Mitilene, Munich, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Prague Seasonal: Catania, Hamburg, Hanover, Lyon, Nantes, Nuremberg, Strasbourg, Venice-Marco Polo | B/4 |
| Aegean Airlines operated by Olympic Air | Belgrade, Bucharest, Sofia, Tirana Seasonal: Smirna | A/4 |
| Aegean Airlines operated by Olympic Air | Alexandroupolis, Cefalonia, Quios, Corfu, Ioannina, Kavala, Kos, Lemnos, Mikonos, Mytilene, Samos, Skyros Seasonal: Catania | B/4 |
| Aer Lingus | Seasonal: Dublin | A/1 |
| Aeroflot | Moscow-Sheremetyevo | A/2 |
| Air Canada Rouge | Season: 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 Europa | Madrid | |
| Air Malta | Malta, Sofia | B/1 |
| Air Moldova | Chisináu | A/1 |
| Air Serbia | Belgrade | A/1 |
| Air Transat | Seasonal: Montreal-Trudeau, Toronto-Pearson | A/1 |
| airBaltic | Seasonal: Riga | B/1 |
| Alitalia | Rome-Fiumicino Seasonal: Milan-Linate | B/2 |
| Arkia Israel Airlines | Seasonal: Tel Aviv | A/1 |
| Austrian operated by Tyrolean Airways | Vienna | B/3 |
| British Airways | London-Heathrow | A/1 |
| Brussels Airlines | Seasonal: Brussels-National | B/3 |
| Bulgaria Air | Sofia | A/1 |
| Croatia Airlines | Seasonal: Dubrovnik, Split, Zagreb | A/1 |
| Delta Air Lines | Seasonal: New York-JFK | A/2 |
| easyJet | Edinburgh, London-Gatwick, Manchester | A/1 |
| easyJet Europe | Berlin-Schönefeld, Hamburg, 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 The Arab Seasonal: Cairo | A/3 |
| The Al | Tel Aviv | A/1 |
| Emirates | Dubai-International, Newark | A/1 |
| Etihad Airways | Abu Dhabi | A/1 |
| Gulf Air | Baréin | A/1 |
| Iberia | Madrid | B/1 |
| Iberia Express | Seasonal: Madrid | B/1 |
| KLM | Amsterdam | B/2 |
| LOT Polish Airlines | Warsaw-Chopin | B/1 |
| Lufthansa | Frankfurt am Main, Munich | B/4 |
| Middle East Airlines | Beirut | A/1 |
| 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 | B/4 |
| Pegasus Airlines | Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Esmirna | A/1 |
| Qatar Airways | Doha | A/1 |
| Royal Jordanian | Haman-Reina Alia | A/1 |
| Ryanair | London-Stansted, Pafos, Catania-Fontanarossa | A/1 |
| Ryanair | Bergamo, Chania, Brussels-Charleroi, Rhodes, Rome-Ciampino, Thessaloniki | B/1 |
| S7 Airlines | Seasonal: Moscow-Domodedovo | A/2 |
| Scandinavian Airlines | Copenhagen, Stockholm-Arlanda Seasonal: Gothenburg-Landvetter, Oslo-Gardermoen | B/4 |
| Sky Express | Heraclion, Kastoria, Kozani | B/1 |
| SkyGreece Airlines | Asmara, London-Gatwick, Mogadishu, Stockholm-Arlanda | A/1 |
| Singapore Airlines | Seasonal: Singapore | A/3 |
| Swiss International Air Lines | Geneva, Zurich | B/1 |
| TAROM | Bucharest | A/2 |
| Transavia | Amsterdam, Eindhoven | B/3 |
| Transavia France | Paris-Orly Seasonal: Lyon, Nantes | B/3 |
| TUI fly Belgium | Seasonal: Brussels-National | B/1 |
| Turkish Airlines | Istanbul-Atatürk | A/3 |
| Ukraine International Airlines | Kiev-Boryspil | A/3 |
| Ural Airlines | Krasnodar | A/1 |
| Vueling | Barcelona, Rome-Fiumicino Seasonal: Bilbao | B/1 |
Charter
| Airlines | Destinations
|
|---|---|
| Aegean Airlines | Seasonal: Helsinki, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen, Rostov-on-Don, Rovaniemi, Toulouse, Verona |
| Aeolian Airlines | Heraclion, Istanbul-Ataturk, Rhodes, Rome-Fiumicino, Thessaloniki Seasonal: Mostar |
| airBaltic | Seasonal: Tallinn |
| Air Bucharest | Seasonal: Bucharest |
| Alitalia | Seasonal: Saint Petersburg |
| American Airlines | Seasonal: Chicago |
| Belavia | Seasonal: Minsk |
| Budapest Aircraft Service | Seasonal: Skopie |
| Czech Airlines | Seasonal: Bergamo |
| Ellinair | Thessaloniki |
| Enter Air | Seasonal: Catania |
| Europe Airpost | Seasonal: Heraclion, Lyon, Miconos, Nantes, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Toulouse |
| Japan Airlines | Seasonal: Tokyo-Narita |
| Mahan Air | Seasonal: Tehran, Shanghai-Pudong |
| Mistral Air | Seasonal: Bari, Bergamo, Milan-Malpensa |
| Small Planet Airlines | Season: Katowice, Poznan |
| Titan Airways | Seasonal: Manchester |
| Travel Service Airlines operated by SmartWings | Seasonal: Bratislava, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Tivat |
| Nordstar Airlines | Seasonal: Norilsk |
| Yamal Airlines | Seasonal: Moscow-Domodedovo |
| White Airways | Seasonal: Corfu, Lisbon |
Load
| Airlines | Destinations
|
|---|---|
| DHL Aviation | Leipzig/Halle, Pisa |
| DHL Aviation operated by DHL Air UK | Leipzig/Halle |
| FedEx | Dubai-International, Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport, Tel Aviv |
| Lufthansa Cargo | Frankfurt am Main |
| Royal Jordann Cargo | Haman-Reina Alia, Larnaca |
| Star Air (Maersk Air) | Copenhagen, Munich |
| Swiftair | Madrid |
| TNT Airways | Bergamo, Lárnaca, Liège |
| UPS Airlines | Ljubljana, Milan-Malpensa, New York-JFK, Paris-Charles de Gaulle |
Statistics
See source and consult Wikidata.
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