Heraklion International Airport "Nikos Kazantzakis"
Heraklion International Airport "Nikos Kazantzakis" Κρατικός Αερολιμένας Ηρακλείου "Νίκος Καζαντζάκης" | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||||||
| Owner | Greek Government | ||||||||||||||||||
| Serves | Heraklion | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Heraklion | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 35°20′22.99″N 25°10′49.07″E / 35.3397194°N 25.1802972°E | ||||||||||||||||||
| Website | www.hcaa-eleng.gr/irak.htm | ||||||||||||||||||
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Heraklion International Airport, "Nikos Kazantzakis" (Template:Lang-el) or Nikos Kazantzakis International Airport (IATA: HER, ICAO: LGIR) is the primary airport on the island of Crete, Greece. It is located about 5km from the main city of Heraklion. The airport is named after Heraklion native Nikos Kazantzakis, a Greek writer and philosopher. It is the country's second busiest airport after Athens International Airport.
Area
Nikos Kazantzakis Airport is Crete's main and busiest airport, serving Heraklion (Ηράκλειο), Aghios Nikolaos (Άγιος Νικόλαος), Malia (Mάλλια), Chersonissos (Χερσόνησος), Stalida (Σταλίδα) and other resorts. According to a recent survey, it ranks 69th among all European airports in terms of annual traffic [3].
Passenger Information
It is often requested by airlines that passengers do not take any photographs or video of the runway. This is because of a Hellenic Air Force base which operates at the airport.
Airlines and destinations
- Aegean Airlines (Athens, Larnaca, Moscow-Sheremetievo(seasonal), Thessaloniki)
- airBaltic (Riga)
- airberlin (Berlin-Tegel, Dormund, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Erfurt, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Munich, Nuremberg, Paderborn/Lippstadt, Stuttgart, Zürich) [seasonal]
- Air Italy Polska (Warsaw) [seasonal]
- Air Finland (Helsinki)
- Air Malta (Luqa)
- Arkia Israel Airlines (Tel Aviv)
- Arkefly (Amsterdam)
- Austrian Airlines (Linz, Salzburg, Vienna)
- Belair (Basel, Geneva, Zurich)
- Centralwings (Warsaw)
- Condor Airlines (Berlin-Schönefeld, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Nuremberg, Stuttgart) [seasonal]
- Corsairfly (Paris)
- Cyprus Airways (Larnaca)
- Czech Airlines (Prague)
- easyJet (London-Gatwick, Manchester)
- Edelweiss Air (Geneva, Zurich)
- Estonian Air (Tallinn)
- Eurocypria Airlines (Bristol, Newcastle, Dublin, Cork, Shannon, Larnaca)
- Eurofly (Milan)
- First Choice Airways (Birmingham, Bristol, East Midlands, London-Gatwick, Manchester)
- Germania (Berlin-Tegel) [seasonal]
- Germanwings (Cologne/Bonn)
- Hamburg International (Friedrichshafen, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Luxembourg, Saarbrücken) [seasonal]
- Hello
- Jat Airways (Belgrade, Niš)
- Jet2.com (Leeds/Bradford)
- Kavminvodyavia (Mineralnye Vody)
- KD Avia (Kaliningrad)
- KLM Cityhopper (Amsterdam)
- KrasAir (Krasnoyarsk)
- LatCharter(Riga)
- Lauda Air (Vienna)
- Malév Hungarian Airlines (Budapest, Debrecen)
- Martinair (Amsterdam)
- Monarch Airlines (Birmingham, Bristol, Dublin, London-Gatwick, Manchester)
- Montenegro Airlines
- Niki (Graz, Linz, Salzburg, Vienna) [seasonal]
- Norwegian Air Shuttle (Oslo)
- Novair (Stockholm-Arlanda)
- Olympic Airlines (Athens, Thessaloniki, Rhodos, Sitia)
- Rossiya (Saint Petersburg)
- Smart Wings (Prague)
- Sky Express (Greece) (Rhodos, Santorini, Mitilini, Kos)
- Sun d'Or International Airlines (Tel Aviv)
- S7 Airlines (Moscow-Domodedovo)
- TAROM (Bucharest-Otopeni) [seasonal]
- Thomas Cook Airlines (Belfast-International, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, East Midlands, Glasgow-International, Leeds/Bradford, London-Gatwick, Manchester, Newcastle)
- Thomsonfly (Birmingham, Bournemouth, Cardiff, Doncaster/Sheffield, East Midlands, Glasgow-International, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Stansted [begins 3 May 2009], Manchester, Newcastle)
- TNT Airways
- Transaero Airlines (Moscow-Vnukovo)
- transavia.com (Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Rotterdam, Maastricht, Paris-Orly)
- TUIfly (Basel-Mulhouse, Berlin-Tegel, Bremen, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Leipzig/Halle, Memmingen, Munich, Münster/Osnabrück, Nuremberg, Stuttgart, Zweibrücken, Zürich) [seasonal]
- Ural Airlines (Ekaterinburg [seasonal])
- Viking Airlines (Dublin, Lisbon, Newcastle, Birmingham (summer charter))
- Wizz Air (Budapest, Katowice)
References
- ^ "Air data". Hellenic Civilian Aviation Authority. www.hcaa-eleng.gr. Retrieved 2007-08-04.
- ^ "Statistics for years 1990-2006". Hellenic Civilian Aviation Authority. www.hcaa.gr. Retrieved 2008-02-23.
- ^ "Top 100 busiest airports in Europe". www.airliners.net. Retrieved 2008-10-04.
External links
- Greek Airports: Heraklion International Airport, "N. Kazantzakis"
- Greek Airport Guide: Iraklio Airport, "N. Kazantzakis"
- Photos & Info about Heraklion airport
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