Kalamata International Airport

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Kalamata International Airport
Κρατικός Αερολιμένας Καλαμάτας
IATA: KLX – ICAO: LGKL
KLX is located in Greece
KLX
KLX
Location of airport in Greece
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority
Location Kalamata
Focus city for
Elevation AMSL 26 ft / 8 m
Coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
17R/35L 8,868 2,703 Asphalt
17L/35R 9,436 2,876 (now taxiway)
Statistics (2014)
Aircraft Operations 1,096
Passengers 236,232

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.[1]

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

  • 1959 – Kalamata International Airport opens
  • 1986 – Charter flights begin to operate out of the airport
  • 1991 – New aircraft terminal was built
  • 1991 – Operated by Hellenic Civil Aviation
  • 2012 – Renamed "Captain Vassilis Constantakopoulos" after Vassilis C. Constantakopoulos

Airlines and destinations

Airlines Destinations
Aegean Airlines Seasonal: Billund (begins 16 May 2016),[2][3] Copenhagen (begins 16 May 2016),[2][3] Düsseldorf, Heraklion, Lyon (begins 31 May 2016),[2][3] Milan–Malpensa (begins 12 June 2016),[2][3] Moscow-Domodedovo, Munich, Nantes (begins 4 June 2016),[2][3] Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Stockholm-Arlanda
Astra Airlines Thessaloniki (PSO)
Arkia Seasonal charter: Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion
Austrian Airlines Seasonal: Vienna
British Airways Seasonal: London-Heathrow (begins 30 April 2016)[2]
Condor Seasonal:Frankfurt, Munich
Enter Air Seasonal: Warsaw-Chopin
easyJet Seasonal: London-Gatwick
Middle East Airlines Seasonal charter: Beirut
Niki Seasonal: Vienna
Ryanair Seasonal: Bergamo
Small Planet Airlines Seasonal charter: Katowice, Poznań
Thomas Cook Airlines Seasonal charter: Birmingham, London-Gatwick,[4] Manchester[4]
Transavia Seasonal: Amsterdam[5]
Travel Service Airlines Seasonal charter: Prague[6]
Vueling Seasonal: Rome-Fiumicino (begins 24 June 2016)[7]

Accidents and incidents

  • On 16 October 1971 an Olympic Airways NAMC YS-11 was hijacked. It had departed from Kalamata International Airport to Hellinikon International Airport. All 64 passengers survived. One hijacker demanded to be taken to Lebanon. Plane stormed and hijacker arrested. The hijacking lasted less than a day.
  • On November 2001, fourteen plane spotters (12 British and 2 Dutch) were arrested by the police after being observed taking photos of the air base.

Trivia

  • The airport is featured in the opening scene of the 2013 film Before Midnight.

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://el.aegeanair.com/i-etaireia/grafeio-tupou/deltia-tupou/deltio-tupou/?prid=404
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  5. ↑ http://www.transavia.com/hv/en-EU/home
  6. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  7. ↑ http://airlineroute.net/2015/10/06/vy-fco-s16/

External links


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