SANTORINI AIRPORT

Santorini Airport first operated in the year of 1972, and today consists of the Air Terminal building (10,000 sq.m.), the main runway (16-34,2,120m.X30m.) and the 16.000 sq.m. aircraft parking apron (two aircraft capacity) and is still upgrating.
The buildings are built according to the traditional cycladic arcitecture. The Airport is going to get upgrade to "International" during the 2005.
The improvement of Santorini Airport Thira was achieved through a series of upgrading works-already brought into operation-not only in the Air Terminal building (check-in-counters, conveyer belts, escalator), but also in the rest of the Airport's plants (lighting of the apron, fencing, surrounding area), with a budget amounting to 310mil.Drs.
Santorini Airport is now composed of the Air Terminal building (2,510 sq.m.), the main runway (16-34,2,120m.X30m.) and the 16.000 sq.m. aircraft parking apron (two aircraft capacity).
Regular flights from Athens city (Athens Airport) by Olympic Airways, Aegean Airlines and Air Sea Lines (a new seaplane airline). Flight duration from Athens to Santorini is about 30 minutes. During summer, Sky Express connects Santorini with other popular islands such as Rhodes (Rhodes Diagoras airport), Heraklion crete (Heraklion Nikos Kazantzakis airport) and Mykonos. Seasonal domestic flights are also operated from Thessaloniki.
From May till October many charter airlines fly directly to Santorini airport from many European cities.
Air Berlin flies from Berlin Tegel (TXL), Dusseldorf (DUS) , Hamburg (HAM), Hannover (HAJ), Nuremberg (NUE), Vienna (VIE) and Zurich (ZRH)
EasyJet flies from London Gatwick (LGW) and Milan Malpensa (MXP)
Edelweiss Air flies from Zurich (ZRH)
Germanwings flies from Cologne / Bonn (CGN), Munich (MUC) and Stuttgart (STR)
Condor flies from Dusseldorf (DUS), Stuttgart (STR), Frankfurt (FRA), Munich (MUC), Hamburg (HAM);
Meridiana flies from Milan Malpensa (MXP)
ThomasCook and Jetairfly fly from Brussels (BRU)
Transavia flies from Amsterdam Airport (AMS).
Flights to Santorini from Athens Airport “Eleftherios Venizelos" and "Macedonia"