Kos International Airport

Kos International Airport (Greek: Διεθνής Αερολιμένας Κω; also known as Hippocrates) (IATA: KGS, ICAO: LGKO) is an international airport on the island of Kos in Greece. It is located near Andimachia Village, and is operated by Fraport AG, all operations within the airport are handled by Swissport.

"Kos Airport" redirects here. For the airport in Cambodia with IATA code KOS, see Sihanouk International Airport.

Kos International Airport

Κρατικός Αερολιμένας Κω
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerGreek state
OperatorFraport Greece
ServesKos Island
LocationAndimachia, Greece
Focus city forAegean Airlines
Elevation AMSL409 ft / 126 m
Coordinates36°47′36.01″N 27°05′30″E
Websitekgs-airport.gr
Map
KGS
Location of airport in Greece
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
14/32 7,874 2,400 Asphalt
Statistics (2020)
Passengers800.655
Passenger traffic change 70,1%
Aircraft movements7.994
Aircraft movements change 59,6%
Statistics[1]

The airport mainly serves charter airlines, who bring customers on holiday to the island. Kos Airport hits its peak in summer, with flights from German and British airlines primarily.

History

1964

The airport was opened on 4 April 1964. In 1974, the runway was extended to 2,400 metres. Due to increased traffic at the airport, a new terminal was built in 1980. In 1997, the terminal building was renovated and expanded.

2015

In December 2015, the privatisation of Kos Island 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.[2] "We signed the deal today," the head of Greece's privatisation agency HRADF, Stergios Pitsiorlas, told Reuters.[3] According to the agreement, the joint venture will operate the 14 airports (including Kos Island International Airport) for 40 years as of 11 April 2017.

2017

On 22 March 2017, Fraport AG and its Greek subsidiary Fraport Greece presented its plans for 14 regional airports that they had been handed control of by the Greek Government.[4] The immediate actions by Fraport were to improve lighting, improve the marking of airside areas, upgrade sanitary facilities, enhance WiFi services and implementing better fire safety throughout the airport.

The long-term plans by the operator, which are due to continue until 2021, are to build a new terminal and a new fire station, refurbish the waste water treatment plant, and add more security check lanes and check in counters.

Airlines and destinations
AirlinesDestinations
Aegean Airlines[5] Athens
airBaltic Seasonal: Riga[6]
Air Serbia Seasonal charter: Belgrade
ArkiaSeasonal: Tel Aviv
Austrian AirlinesSeasonal: Vienna
Bluebird AirwaysSeasonal: Tel Aviv
British Airways Seasonal: London–Gatwick[7] London–Heathrow
Brussels Airlines Seasonal: Brussels[8]
Buzz[9] Seasonal charter: Katowice
Chair Airlines Seasonal: Zürich
Condor Seasonal: Berlin,[10] Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Stuttgart, Vienna (begins 20 May 2022),[11] Zürich[12]
Corendon Airlines Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse,[13][14] Billund (begins 24 June 2022),[15] Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen (begins 24 June 2022),[15] Hannover,[16] Münster/Osnabrück, Nuremberg
Corendon Dutch Airlines Seasonal: Amsterdam, Brussels,[17] Maastricht/Aachen
easyJet Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse, Berlin, Bristol, Geneva, Glasgow, Liverpool (begins 3 July 2022),[18] London–Gatwick, Lyon (begins 2 July 2022),[19] Manchester,[20] Milan–Malpensa, Naples (begins 30 June 2022),[21] Venice (begins 27 June 2022)[22]
Edelweiss Air Seasonal: Zürich
Enter Air[23] Seasonal charter: Gdańsk,[9] Katowice, Warsaw–Chopin
European Air Charter Seasonal charter: Friedrichshafen (begins 11 July 2022), Graz, Linz[24]
EurowingsSeasonal: Berlin (begins 8 May 2022),[25] Cologne/Bonn, Hamburg, Salzburg, Stuttgart
Seasonal charter: Innsbruck[26]
Eurowings Discover Seasonal: Frankfurt, Munich (begins 1 June 2022)
Finnair Seasonal: Helsinki
Freebird Airlines Seasonal: Paderborn/Lippstadt (beginis 6 June 2022)
Seasonal charter: Cologne/Bonn, Leipzig/Halle[27]
Helvetic Airways Seasonal : Bern (resumes 9 July 2022), Zürich
Jet Time Seasonal charter: Helsinki (begins 6 May 2022)
Jet2.com Seasonal: Birmingham, Bristol,[28] East Midlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds/Bradford, London–Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
LOT Polish Airlines Seasonal: Wrocław[29]
Lufthansa Seasonal: Frankfurt,[30] Munich
Luxair Seasonal: Luxembourg
Neos Seasonal: Bergamo (begins 24 June 2022),[31] Bologna, Milan–Malpensa, Verona[32]
Norwegian Air Shuttle Seasonal: Copenhagen (begins 26 June 2022),[33] Oslo, Stockholm–Arlanda
Olympic Air Thessaloniki
RyanairSeasonal: Bari, Bergamo, Berlin, Bologna, Rome–Fiumicino, Treviso, Vienna
Scandinavian AirlinesSeasonal charter: Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Oslo, Stavanger,[34] Stockholm-Arlanda
Sky ExpressAstypalaia, Athens, Heraklion, Kalymnos, Leros, Rhodes
Seasonal: Amsterdam
SkyUp[35] Seasonal: Kyiv–Boryspil (begins 3 June 2022)
Smartwings[36] Seasonal: Brno, Ostrava, Prague, Warsaw-Chopin (begins 5 June 2022)
SundairSeasonal: Berlin, Bremen,[37] Dresden, Düsseldorf[37]
Swiss International Air Lines Seasonal: Geneva, Zürich
Trade Air Seasonal charter: Ljubljana
TransaviaSeasonal: Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Paris–Orly, Rotterdam/The Hague[38]
TUI Airways Seasonal: Belfast–International, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Doncaster/Sheffield, East Midlands, London–Gatwick, London–Luton,[39] Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
Seasonal charter: Dublin (resumes 18 May 2022)[40]
TUI fly BelgiumSeasonal: Brussels, Deauville, Ostend/Bruges
TUI fly DeutschlandSeasonal: Berlin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hannover, Munich, Nuremberg, Saarbrücken, Stuttgart, Vienna
TUI fly NetherlandsSeasonal: Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Rotterdam
Tus Airways Seasonal: Tel Aviv (begins 4 June 2022)[41]
Widerøe Seasonal charter: Oslo
Wizz Air Seasonal: Budapest,[42] Rome–Fiumicino (begins 6 June 2022)[43]

Statistics
Annual passenger traffic at KGS airport. See source Wikidata query.

The data are from Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority (CAA)[44] until 2016 and from 2017 onwards from the official website of the airport.[45]

Year Passengers
Domestic International Total
1994 125,215 1,130,052 1,255,267
1995 141,283 1,015,148 1,156,431
1996 150,271 892,154 1,042,425
1997 153,151 1,006,424 1,159,575
1998 145,312 1,044,604 1,189,916
1999 169,650 1,274,656 1,444,306
2000 217,876 1,360,280 1,578,156
2001 200,614 1,440,986 1,641,600
2002 177,003 1,321,099 1,498,102
2003 183,821 1,278,862 1,462,683
2004 247,758 1,256,941 1,504,699
2005 255,077 1,207,698 1,462,775
2006 251,610 1,321,507 1,573,117
2007 272,271 1,369,410 1,641,681
2008 264,276 1,351,177 1,615,453
2009 260,347 1,257,599 1,517,946
2010 231,057 1,396,183 1,627,240
2011 220,921 1,705,302 1,926,223
2012 192,043 1,605,458 1,797,501
2013 175,422 1,853,196 2,028,618
2014 189,750 2,024,714 2,214,464
2015 201,000 1,942,860 2,143,860
2016 205,695 1,695,800 1,901,495
2017 234,023 2,086,567 2,320,590
2018 271,725 2,394,582 2,666,307
2019 284,948 2.391,696 2.676,644
2020 134.392 666.263 800.655
2021 174,028 1,400,490 1,574,518
2022(Mar) 40,731 844 41,575

Ground transport

By public bus:[46] A transit bus service operates between the airport and Kos town, Mastichari, Kardamena and Kefalos. There is a public bus stop 50m from the terminal building.

By tour operator transfer: Tour operators such as Jet2holidays and TUI UK provide free bus transfers from customers' accommodation to the airport.

By taxi:[47] 24/7 metered taxi service is available outside the Kos Airport Terminal building.

By car:[48] Kos Airport is located 24 km from the Kos town and is accessible from the provincial road Kos-Kefalos.

Accidents and incidents
  • In 2013, an Air Explore Boeing 737 made an emergency landing due to the left engine overheating. Once it taxied to the gate, the engine caught fire. The pilot ordered an evacuation using the emergency slides on either side of the aircraft. No one was injured during the incident.

See also

References
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  2. "Greece signs privatization of 14 regional airports with Germany's Fraport - TornosNews.gr". Retrieved 4 May 2017.
  3. Editorial, Reuters (14 December 2015). "REFILE-UPDATE 1-Greece signs major privatisation deal with Germany's Fraport". Reuters. Retrieved 4 May 2017.
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  7. "British Airways Announces Routes and Starts Selling Seats for ITS New Gatwick Short-Haul Subsidiary".
  8. "Brussels Airlines prepares for summer with the reopening of attractive holiday destinations".
  9. "Timetable". grecos.pl.
  10. Liu, Jim (7 January 2020). "Condor S20 Short-Haul network additions as of 06JAN20". routesonline.com.
  11. "Η Condor ξεκινά πτήσεις από τη Βιέννη προς Ρόδο και Κω - Δημοκρατική της Ρόδου". 16 November 2021.
  12. "In summer 2021 Condor will fly from Zurich to the most popular vacation destinations". condor-newsroom.condor.com.
  13. https://www.corendonairlines.com/news/basel-flightplan-summer2021
  14. https://www.corendonairlines.com/docs/BSL-FlightPlan-EN.pdf
  15. "Head to the sun with Corendon Airlines. - Corendon Airlines".
  16. Liu, Jim. "Corendon Airlines S20 Network expansion". Routesonline. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  17. "Corendon significantly expands its offer on the Belgian market: 22 destinations from Brussels, 9 from Maastricht". 14 March 2022.
  18. https://www.easyjet.com/en/
  19. https://www.lyonaeroports.com/actualites/easyjet-ouvre-la-ligne-lyon-kos-pour-cet-ete
  20. "easyJet holidays adds four new routes for summer 2021". ttgmedia.com. 18 December 2020.
  21. https://www.easyjet.com/en/cheap-flights/naples/kos
  22. https://www.easyjet.com/en/cheap-flights/venice-marco-polo/kos
  23. "Coral Travel". coraltravel.pl.
  24. https://www.linz-airport.com/Flugplan/Charter_Sommer.pdf
  25. "Eurowings flies to more destinations in summer 2022 than ever before". 20 December 2021.
  26. https://www.innsbruck-airport.com/fileadmin/userdaten/HP_Sommerflugplan_01.pdf
  27. "Tui sends Freebird Europe to Leipzig / Halle - Airbus A320 is stationed in Schkeuditz". lvz.de. 4 October 2019.
  28. "Jet2's Bristol Airport base will bring 450,000-holiday seats". ukaviation.news. 11 November 2020.
  29. "LOT will launch 130 connections to several dozen European resorts". 24 June 2020.
  30. Group, Lufthansa. "Lufthansa is consistently pursuing its tourism strategy: 15 new summer destinations from Frankfurt in 2021". Lufthansa Group.
  31. "Low Cost Flights to Greece".
  32. "Flight Times". neosair.it/en.
  33. https://www.norwegian.com/en/destinations/
  34. "Only Flight". tui.no.
  35. "Schedule". skyup.aero.
  36. "Flight schedule". smartwings.com.
  37. https://www.sundair.com/flightplan/#/
  38. 2017, UBM (UK) Ltd. "Transavia Adds New Eindhoven Routes in S16". Routesonline. Retrieved 4 May 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  39. "Flight Timetable | TUI Airways".
  40. "Flight Timetable". TUI Airways. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
  41. "Visit Tel Aviv | Tus Airways".
  42. "WIZZ – Dream more. Live more. Be more".
  43. "Wizz Air launches 9 new routes across Europe!".
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  45. "Air Traffic statistics", kgs-airport.gr
  46. "By Public Bus | Kos Airport (KGS)". www.kgs-airport.gr. Retrieved 24 June 2017.
  47. "By Taxi | Kos Airport (KGS)". www.kgs-airport.gr. Retrieved 24 June 2017.
  48. "By Car | Kos Airport (KGS)". www.kgs-airport.gr. Retrieved 24 June 2017.
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