Landing at Santorini new airport.

The airport is located about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) southeast of the centre of the city of Thira. The main asphalt runway (17/35) is 7,208 feet (2,197 m) in length. The parallel taxiway was built and marked to runway specification but is now marked and lighted as a taxiway. The airfield can accommodate medium-sized jets like the Boeing 757, Boeing 737 and Airbus 320 series as well as smaller aircraft such as the Avro RJ, Fokker 70, and ATR 72. Scheduled airlines include Ryanair, Olympic Air and Aegean Airlines, with seasonal scheduled and charter flights from other airlines during the higher seasons in spring, summer and autumn. Transportation to and from the air terminal is via buses, taxis, hotel car-pickups and hired cars.
The airport first operated in 1972.
IThe airport first operated in 1972.[3]
In December 2015 the privatisation of Santorini (Thira) International Airport and 13 other regional airports of Greece was finalised with the signing of the agreement between the Fraport AG/Copelouzos Group joint venture and the state privatisation fund.[4] According to the agreement, the joint venture will operate the 14 airports (including Santorini (Thira) International Airport) for 40 years as of 11 April 2017. In 2016 the airport was voted as one of the worst airports, the commentary mentions the situation in summer where travelers can wait for hours under the hot sun while inside they are crammed into small rooms without air conditioning.
In December 2015 the privatisation of Santorini (Thira) International Airport and 13 other regional airports of Greece was finalised with the signing of the agreement between the Fraport AG/Copelouzos Group joint venture and the state privatisation fund.[4] According to the agreement, the joint venture will operate the 14 airports (including Santorini (Thira) International Airport) for 40 years as of 11 April 2017. In 2016 the airport was voted as one of the worst airports, the commentary mentions the situation in summer where travelers can wait for hours under the hot sun while inside they are crammed into small rooms without air conditioning.
The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Santorini (Thira) Airport:
Airlines Destinations
Aegean Airlines[7] Athens
Aer Lingus[8] Seasonal: Dublin[9]
Air Europa Seasonal: Madrid[10]
Air France Seasonal: Marseille, Nice (begins 8 July 2023),[11] Paris-Charles de Gaulle[12]
airBaltic[13] Seasonal: Riga[14]
Animawings Seasonal: Bucharest-Otopeni [15]
Austrian Airlines[16] Seasonal: Vienna
Bluebird Airways Seasonal: Tel Aviv[17]
British Airways[18] Seasonal: London-Gatwick,[19] London-Heathrow
Cyprus Airways Seasonal: Larnaca
easyJet[20] Seasonal: Bristol, Edinburgh, Geneva, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, Manchester, Milan-Malpensa, Naples
Edelweiss Air[21] Seasonal: Zürich
Eurowings[22] Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf,[23] Hamburg, Stuttgart
Eurowings Discover Seasonal: Frankfurt[24] Munich
Finnair[25] Seasonal: Helsinki
flydubai Seasonal: Dubai-International
flynas Seasonal: Riyadh[26]
Gulf Air[27] Seasonal: Bahrain[28]
Iberia Express Seasonal: Madrid
Jet2.com[29] Seasonal: Birmingham, Bristol,[30] Edinburgh,[31] East Midlands,[32] Leeds/Bradford, London-Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
Lufthansa[33] Seasonal: Frankfurt, Munich
Luxair Seasonal: Luxembourg[34]
Neos[35] Seasonal: Milan-Malpensa, Verona
Norwegian Air Shuttle[36] Seasonal: Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm-Arlanda
Olympic Air Seasonal: Thessaloniki
Ryanair[37] Seasonal: Athens, Bari, Bergamo, Dublin, Gdańsk, Kraków, London-Stansted, Milan-Malpensa, Naples, Rome-Fiumicino, Vienna
Scandinavian Airlines Seasonal: Copenhagen[38]
Seasonal charter: Gothenburg,[39] Oslo, Stockholm-Arlanda,[39] Trondheim[40]
Sky Express[41] Athens
Smartwings Seasonal: Prague,[42] Warsaw-Chopin
Swiss International Air Lines[43] Seasonal: Geneva, Zürich
Transavia[44] Seasonal: Amsterdam, Brussels,[45] Lyon,[46] Nantes, Paris-Orly
TUI Airways[47] Seasonal: Birmingham, Bristol, East Midlands, Manchester
TUI fly Belgium[48] Seasonal: Brussels
Volotea Athens, Thessaloniki
Seasonal: Bari, Bilbao,[49]Bordeaux,[50] Lyon,[51] Marseille, Nantes, Naples, Palermo,[52] Toulouse, Venice, Verona
Vueling[53] Seasonal: Barcelona, Rome-Fiumicino
Wizz Air[54] Seasonal: Abu Dhabi, Bucharest-Otopeni, Budapest, Catania, Naples, Rome-Fiumicino, Tel Aviv, Venice,[55] Warsaw-Chopin