Santorini (Thira) International Airport

Santorini (Thira) International Airport (Greek: Κρατικός Αερολιμένας Σαντορίνης) (IATA: JTR, ICAO: LGSR) is an airport in Santorini/Thira, Greece located north of the village of Kamari. The airport serves as both a military and a civil airport. With its redesigned apron, as of 2021 the airport is able to serve up to nine civilian airliners at the same time. Santorini is one of the few Cyclades Islands with a major airport.

Santorini International Airport

Κρατικός Αερολιμένας Σαντορίνης
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerGreek State
OperatorFraport AG/Copelouzos Group joint venture
ServesSantorini
LocationKamari
Elevation AMSL127 ft / 39 m
Coordinates36°23′57.01″N 25°28′45.60″E
Websitejtr-airport.gr
Map
JTR
Location of airport in Greece
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
15/35 7,208 2,197 Asphalt
Statistics (2020)
Passengers572.963
Passenger traffic change 75.1%
Aircraft movements7.286
Aircraft movements change 65.8%
Runway[1] Statistics[2]

The airport is located about 6 km southeast of the centre of the city of Thira. The main asphalt runway (17/35) is 7208 feet (2197 m) in length. The parallel taxiway was built and marked to runway specification but is now marked and lighted as a taxiway. The airfield can accommodate medium-sized jets like the Boeing 757, Boeing 737 and Airbus 320 series as well as smaller aircraft such as the Avro RJ, Fokker 70, and ATR 72. Scheduled airlines include Ryanair, Olympic Air and Aegean Airlines, with seasonal scheduled and charter flights from other airlines during the higher seasons in spring, summer and autumn. Transportation to and from the air terminal is via buses, taxis, hotel car-pickups and hired cars.

History
Kamari town and Santorini International Airport

The airport first operated in 1972.[3]

In December 2015 the privatisation of Santorini (Thira) 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.[4] According to the agreement, the joint venture will operate the 14 airports (including Santorini (Thira) International Airport) for 40 years as of 11 April 2017.

Airlines and destinations
AirlinesDestinations
Aegean Airlines[5] Athens
Seasonal:Tel Aviv (resumes 3 June 2022)
Aer Lingus[6] Seasonal: Dublin[7]
Air France Seasonal: Marseille (begins 8 July 2022)[8] Paris–Charles de Gaulle[9]
Air Serbia Seasonal charter: Belgrade
airBaltic[10] Seasonal: Riga[11]
ASL Airlines France Seasonal charter: Lyon
Austrian Airlines[12] Seasonal: Vienna
Bluebird Airways Seasonal: Tel Aviv (begins 22 June 2022)[13]
Blue Air[14] Seasonal: Bucharest (begins 20 June 2022),[15] Turin
British Airways[16] Seasonal: London–City, London–Gatwick,[17] London–Heathrow
Condor[18] Seasonal: Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich, Stuttgart
Cyprus Airways Seasonal: Larnaca
easyJet[19] Seasonal: Berlin, Bristol,[20] Geneva, London–Gatwick, London–Luton, Manchester, Milan–Malpensa, Naples (begins 28 June 2022),[21]
Edelweiss Air[22] Seasonal: Zürich
Etihad Airways Seasonal: Abu Dhabi[23]
Eurowings[24] Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf,[25] Hamburg, Stuttgart,[26] Vienna
Eurowings Discover Seasonal: Munich (begins 6 June 2022)
Finnair[27] Seasonal: Helsinki
flydubai Seasonal: Dubai–International (resumes 24 June 2022)
flynas Seasonal: Riyadh (begins 2 June 2022)[28]
Gulf Air[29] Seasonal: Bahrain[30]
Helvetic Airways Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse
Iberia Express Seasonal: Madrid
Jet2.com[31] Seasonal: Birmingham, Bristol (begins 4 May 2022),[32] Edinburgh (begins 26 May 2022),[33] East Midlands (begins 26 May 2023),[34] Leeds/Bradford, London–Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
Lufthansa[35] Seasonal: Frankfurt, Munich
Luxair Seasonal: Luxembourg[36]
Neos[37] Seasonal: Milan–Malpensa, Verona
Norwegian Air Shuttle[38] Seasonal: Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm–Arlanda
Novair Seasonal charter: Oslo[39]
Olympic AirSeasonal: Thessaloniki
Qatar Airways Seasonal: Doha (begins 7 June 2022)[40]
Ryanair[41] Seasonal: Athens, Bari, Bergamo, Corfu, Dublin, Gdańsk, Kraków, London–Stansted, Milan–Malpensa, Naples, Rome–Fiumicino, Vienna
Scandinavian Airlines Seasonal: Copenhagen (begins 24 June 2022)[42]
Seasonal charter: Gothenburg,[43] Stavanger,[39] Stockholm–Arlanda,[43] Trondheim[39]
Sky Express[44] Athens
Smartwings Seasonal: Prague (begins 3 June 2022),[45] Warsaw-Chopin (begins 22 May 2022)
Swiss International Air Lines[46] Seasonal: Geneva, Zürich
Transavia[47] Seasonal: Amsterdam, Lyon,[48] Montpellier,[49] Nantes, Paris–Orly
TUI Airways[50] Seasonal: Birmingham, Bristol, East Midlands, Manchester
TUI fly Belgium[51] Seasonal: Brussels
Tus Airways Seasonal: Larnaca
Volotea Athens,
Seasonal: Bari, Bordeaux,[52] Lyon,[53] Marseille, Nantes, Naples, Thessaloniki, Toulouse, Turin,[54] Venice, Verona
Vueling[55] Seasonal: Barcelona, Florence, Rome–Fiumicino
Wizz Air[56] Seasonal: Abu Dhabi, Belgrade, Bucharest, Budapest, Catania, Gdańsk, Iași, Kraków, London–Luton, Milan–Malpensa, Naples, Rome–Fiumicino, Tel Aviv, Timișoara, Venice (begins 4 June 2022),[57] Vilnius, Warsaw–Chopin

Traffic figures
Annual passenger traffic at JTR airport. See source Wikidata query.

The data are from Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority (CAA)[58] until 2016, and from the airport's official website from 2017 thereafter.[59]

Year Passengers
Domestic International Total
1994 175,152 225,896 401,048
1995 188,461 257,978 446,439
1996 188,778 246,680 435.458
1997 208,195 263,735 471,930
1998 209,505 286,809 496,314
1999 225,160 353,193 578,353
2000 302,072 373,428 675,500
2001 288,084 387,659 675,743
2002 221,040 357,797 578,837
2003 207,695 326,232 533,927
2004 245,577 302,564 548,141
2005 269,371 341,913 611,284
2006 316,973 361,262 678,235
2007 359,950 386,724 746,674
2008 360,670 371,484 732,154
2009 356,040 343,068 699,108
2010 354,872 367,283 722,155
2011 377,473 408,074 785,547
2012 358,468 405,071 763,539
2013 403,687 494,466 898,153
2014 548,274 631,534 1,179,808
2015 771,193 724,697 1,495,890
2016 897,231 788,464 1,685,695
2017 1,022,117 908,894 1,928,295
2018 1,186,904 1,068,022 2,254,926
2019 1,228,840 1,071,568 2,300,408
2020 283.764 289.199 572.963
2021 561,780 984,804 1,546,584
2022(Mar) 60,965 3,330 64,295

See also

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  57. https://italiavola.com/2021/10/06/wizz-apre-base-a-venezia-nellestate-2022/
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  59. "SANTORINI AIRPORT (JTR) Air Traffic statistics", jtr-airport.gr

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