Kalamata International Airport

Kalamata International Airport
Κρατικός Αερολιμένας Καλαμάτας

IATA: KLX – ICAO: LGKL

KLX
Location of airport in Greece

Summary
Airport type Public
Owner Greek state
Operator HCAA
Location Kalamata
Focus city for
Elevation AMSL 26 ft / 8 m
Coordinates 37°04′06.18″N 22°01′32.29″E / 37.0683833°N 22.0256361°E / 37.0683833; 22.0256361Coordinates: 37°04′06.18″N 22°01′32.29″E / 37.0683833°N 22.0256361°E / 37.0683833; 22.0256361
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
17R/35L 8,868 2,703 Asphalt
17L/35R 9,436 2,876 (now taxiway)
Statistics (2015)
Passengers 188,209
Passenger traffic change Decrease 20.4%
Aircraft movements 2,520
Aircraft movements change Decrease 12.5%
Runway[1] Statistics[2]

Kalamata International Airport (Greek: Κρατικός Αερολιμένας Καλαμάτας) (IATA: KLX, ICAO: LGKL) "Captain Vassilis Constantakopoulos" is an airport in the city of Kalamata, Greece. It mainly receives charter flights during the summer. On March 2013, Aegean Airlines opened a base in the airport.[3]

Overview

The airport is located between Kalamata and Messini on GR-82 (Pylos – Kalamata – Sparta) and west of the train tracks on the Pamisos River plain. The runway is about 2.7 km long and runs from north to south from the highway north to the plain. The terminal lies to the east and is accessed with GR-7/E55/E65 (Kalamata – Tripoli – Corinth).

There is a military base of the Hellenic Air Force and an air-training department to the west of the runway. Hellenic Air Force uses the same runway as the commercial airplanes.

History

Airlines and destinations

AirlinesDestinations
Aegean Airlines Seasonal: Billund (begins 16 May 2016),[4][5] Copenhagen (begins 16 May 2016),[4][5] Düsseldorf, Lyon (begins 31 May 2016),[4][5] Milan–Malpensa (begins 12 June 2016),[4][5] Moscow-Domodedovo, Munich, Nantes (begins 4 June 2016),[4][5] Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Stockholm-Arlanda
AirX Seasonal: Manchester (begins 24 July 2016)[6]
Astra Airlines Thessaloniki (PSO)
Arkia Seasonal charter: Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion
Austrian Airlines Seasonal: Vienna
British Airways Seasonal: London-Heathrow
Condor Seasonal: Frankfurt, Munich
easyJet Seasonal: London-Gatwick
Niki Seasonal: Vienna
Smart Wings
operated by Travel Service Slovakia 		Seasonal charter: Bratislava
Thomas Cook Airlines Seasonal: Manchester [7]
Thomas Cook Airlines
operated by SmartLynx Airlines 		Seasonal: Birmingham, London-Gatwick (begins 22 May 2016)[7]
Transavia Seasonal: Amsterdam[8]
Travel Service AirlinesSeasonal charter: Prague[9]
Vueling Seasonal: Rome-Fiumicino (begins 24 June 2016)[10]

Accidents and incidents

Trivia

See also

References

  1. ↑ Jeppesen aerodrome charts
  2. ↑ "KALAMATA AIRPORT "CAPTAIN VASSILIS CONSTANTAKOPOULOS"". ypa.gr. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
  3. ↑ http://el.aegeanair.com/i-etaireia/grafeio-tupou/deltia-tupou/deltio-tupou/?prid=404
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 "Amadeus". amadeus.net. Retrieved 2 November 2015.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 "Aegean Airlines Expands Kalamata Routes in S16". airlineroute.net. Retrieved 2 November 2015.
  6. ↑ http://www.loloflights.com
  7. 1 2 https://www.thomascookairlines.com/
  8. ↑ http://www.transavia.com/hv/en-EU/home
  9. ↑ "Flight Search". Retrieved 22 March 2014.
  10. ↑ http://airlineroute.net/2015/10/06/vy-fco-s16/

External links


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