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Chania International Airport
Chania International Airport "Daskalogiannis" Κρατικός Αερολιμένας Χανίων, "Δασκαλογιάννης" | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public/Military | ||||||||||
| Owner | Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority | ||||||||||
| Operator | Fraport Greece | ||||||||||
| Serves | Chania, Crete |
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| Elevation AMSL |
149 m / 490 ft | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 35°31′54″N 024°08′59″E / 35.53167°N 24.14972°E / 35.53167; 24.14972Coordinates: 35°31′54″N 024°08′59″E / 35.53167°N 24.14972°E / 35.53167; 24.14972 |
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| Website | chq-airport.gr | ||||||||||
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  CHQ Location in Greece | |||||||||||
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2.6%Chania International Airport "Daskalogiannis" (IATA: CHQ, ICAO: LGSA) is an international airport located near Souda Bay on the Akrotiri peninsula of the Greek island of Crete, serving the city of Chania, 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) away. Moreover, it is a gateway to western Crete for an increasing number of tourists. The airport is named after Daskalogiannis, a Cretan rebel against Ottoman rule in the 18th century and is a joint civil–military airport. It is the fifth busiest airport in Greece.
Contents
1 History
2 Future of the Airport – Fraport Greece’s investment plan
3 Airlines and destinations
4 Traffic figures
4.1 Traffic statistics by country (2017)[28]
5 Transportation to and from the airport
6 See also
7 References
8 External links
History
The focus on civil aviation for the west of Crete has not always been on the current location. It was the airport of Maleme that served civil flights up to 1959, and dating back to the end of Second World War.
Maleme (Military) Airport was constructed by the British Military, shortly before the Second World War. When the war was over, the facility was used as the main public airport of Chania.
In 1959, this activity was transferred to the military airport of Souda. 1967 saw the construction of the first passenger terminal and parking space for two aircraft. In 1974, the airport also began to serve international flights. Because of insufficient capacity, there was the need for a new terminal building. Eventually, in 1996, the new terminal was ready, measuring a surface area of 14,650 square metres (157,700 sq ft), with 6 aircraft stands in front. It has a design capacity of 1.35 million passengers per year.
In 2000, it was officially named Ioannis Daskalogiannis.
The airport is also intensively used by the Hellenic Air Force.
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In December 2015 the privatisation of Chania 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] "We signed the deal today," the head of Greece's privatisation agency HRADF, Stergios Pitsiorlas, told Reuters.[5] According to the agreement, the joint venture will operate the 14 airports (including Chania International Airport) for 40 years as of 11 April 2017.
In June 2018[6] completed by Fraport Greece, the new aircraft layouts, which are now using push back, for doubling the parking space, the passenger safety area has been expanded, with the increase in hand baggage checkers from 5 to 8 and the Duty Free store space increased from 400 sq.m. at 1,200 sq. meters, the VIP space was moved to increase the boarding gates from 14 to 16 and the dividing walls in the departure halls were removed in order to have a space of 3,000 sq. meters, a new pumping station was built and network (about 3.5 km) and connected to the municipal sewage network, electromechanical installations (new MCCs, new wiring, new luminaires, new electrical panels, etc.) were optimized, the Apron lighting was upgraded, the WC has been renovated, with the purpose of increase the toilets in the Extra Schengen area and the escalator was moved to a new location, in order to manage better the available spaces.
On June 10, 2018, Air Force One carrying U.S. President Donald Trump stopped for refueling in Chania during Trump's flight from the G7 meeting in Quebec to the historic meeting in Singapore with the leader of North Korea Kim Jong-un.[7]
Future of the Airport – Fraport Greece’s investment plan
On 22 March 2017, Fraport-Greece presented its master plan for the 14 Greek regional airports, including the International Airport of Chania.[8]
Immediate actions that will be implemented at the airports as soon as Fraport Greece takes over operations, before the summer of 2019 :
- General clean-up
- Improving lighting, marking of airside areas.
- Upgrading sanitary facilities
- Enhancing services and offering new free Internet connection (WiFi)
- Implementing works to improve fire safety in all the areas of the airports
- Rearranging the terminal’s internal utilization
- Rearranging the departure gate lounge
- Expanding the security control area
- HBS (Hold Baggage Screening Systems) inline screening
- Expanding the waste water treatment plant or connection to municipal service
- Reorganizing the apron area
- Refurbishing the airside pavement
- 25 percent increase in the number of departure gates (from 8 to 10)
- Doubling the number of security-check lanes (from 4 to 8)
Airlines and destinations
| Airlines | Destinations |
|---|---|
| Aegean Airlines | Athens, Thessaloniki Seasonal charter: Lappeenranta, Luleå, Malmö, Umeå, Skellefteå, Sundsvall, Visby, Alta, Kristiansund, Kristiansand, Bergen, Odense, Kajaani, Vaasa, Tampere, Jyväskylä, Savonlinna, Kuopio, Tel Aviv, Sundsvall, Jönköping, Karlstad[9] |
| airBaltic | Seasonal charter: Helsinki[9] |
| Arkia | Seasonal charter: Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion |
| ASL Airlines France |
Seasonal charter: Manchester |
| Astra Airlines | Seasonal: Thessaloniki |
| Atlantic Airways | Seasonal: Vágar |
| Austrian Airlines | Seasonal: Graz, Linz, Vienna |
| Aviolet | Seasonal charter: Belgrade |
| Blue Air | Seasonal charter: Larnaca, Bucharest[10] |
| British Airways | Seasonal: London-Heathrow[11] |
| Brussels Airlines | Seasonal: Brussels |
| Cyprus Airways | Seasonal: Larnaca [12] |
| Condor | Seasonal: Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich, Stuttgart |
| Danish Air Transport |
Seasonal charter: Aarhus, Copenhagen, Aalborg, Karup, Billund |
| easyJet | Seasonal: London-Gatwick, Lyon, Nice |
| Ellinair | Thessaloniki Seasonal: Moscow-Sheremetyevo[13] |
| Edelweiss Air | Seasonal: Zurich[14] |
| Enter Air | Seasonal charter: Warsaw, Gdansk, Poznan, Wroclaw, Katowice, Krakow[9] |
| Eurowings | Seasonal: Düsseldorf,[15]Hannover, Munich, Stuttgart[16] |
| Finnair | Seasonal: Helsinki, Oulu |
| Helvetic Airways | Seasonal: Zürich |
| Jet2.com | Seasonal: Birmingham (begins 7 May 2019),[17]Leeds/Bradford (begins 5 May 2019),[17]London-Stansted (begins 3 May 2019),[17]Manchester (begins 7 May 2019)[17] |
| Jet Time | Seasonal charter: Aalborg, Billund, Copenhagen, Kalmar, Norrkoping, Orebro, Vaxjo, Helsinki |
| Laudamotion | Seasonal: Vienna[18] |
| Luxair | Seasonal: Luxembourg[19] |
| Norwegian Air Shuttle | Seasonal: Bergen, Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Helsinki, London-Gatwick, Oslo-Gardermoen Seasonal charter: Bodø, Stavanger, Stockholm-Arlanda, Tromsø, Trondheim, Visby, Haugesund, Oulu[9] |
| Novair | Seasonal charter: Oslo-Gardermoen,[20]Stockholm-Arlanda, Trondheim, Sandefjord[9] |
| Ryanair | Paphos, Thessaloniki Seasonal: Bergamo,[21]Birmingham, Bremen, Bristol, Charleroi, Bucharest (begins 3 April 2019), Dublin, East Midlands, Eindhoven, Frankfurt, Hahn, Kraków,[22]Leeds/Bradford, London-Stansted, Manchester, Naples, Pisa, Rome-Fiumicino, Sofia (begins 2 June 2019), Warsaw-Modlin, Weeze, Wrocław |
| Ryanair Sun | Seasonal charter: Warsaw, Poznan, Wroclaw, Katowice[9] |
| Scandinavian Airlines | Seasonal: Copenhagen, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda Seasonal charter: Aalborg, Bergen, Bodø, Haugesund, Kristiansand, Lulea, Gothenburg, Stavanger, Tromsø, Trondheim, Umea, Ålesund, Molde, Billund, Harstad[9] |
| Sky Express | Athens |
| Small Planet Airlines | Seasonal charter: London-Gatwick, Manchester, Gothenburg, Stockholm, Luleå, Ängelholm, Umeå, Skellefteå, Sundsvall, Östersund, Turku, Helsinki, Vaasa, Oulu, Kuopio, Joensuu, Tampere, Jyväskylä, Aalborg, Billund, Vilnius[9] |
| SmartLynx Airlines | Seasonal charter: Tallinn, Riga[9] |
| SmartWings | Seasonal: Prague |
| Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia | Seasonal charter: Bergen, Billund, Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Helsinki, Kalmar, Malmo, Oslo-Gardermoen, Trondheim, Stavanger, Sandefjord, Stockholm-Arlanda |
| TAROM | Seasonal charter: Bucharest, Iași, Cluj-Napoca[9] |
| Transavia | Seasonal: Amsterdam |
| Transavia France | Seasonal: Paris-Orly |
| Travel Service Hungary | Seasonal charter: Budapest[23] |
| Travel Service Polska | Seasonal: Budapest, Warsaw, Gdansk, Poznan, Wroclaw, Katowice |
| TUI Airways | Seasonal: Birmingham, Bristol, London-Gatwick, Manchester Seasonal charter: Gothenburg[24] |
| TUI fly Belgium | Seasonal: Brussels, Ostend |
| TUI fly Netherlands | Seasonal: Amsterdam[9] |
| TUI fly Nordic | Seasonal charter: Billund, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Malmö, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda |
| Wings of Lebanon | Seasonal charter: Beirut[9] |
Traffic figures
The data token from Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority (CAA)[25] until 2016 and from 2017 and later from the official website of the airport.[26]
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587,106*The 2018 data is for the year to October [27]
Traffic statistics by country (2017)[28]
| Place |
Country |
Arriving Pax |
Departing Pax |
Total Pax |
%Pax Share |
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| 1 |
 Greece |
305,309 |
308,478 |
613,787 |
22.1% |
| 2 |
 Sweden |
176,625 |
177,436 |
354,061 |
12.8% |
| 3 |
 Norway |
150,173 |
149,748 |
299,921 |
10.8% |
| 4 |
 United Kingdom |
147,764 |
151,220 |
298,984 |
10.8% |
| 5 |
 Denmark |
143,619 |
287,057 |
306,483 |
10.3% |
| 6 |
 Poland |
80,174 |
80,013 |
160,187 |
5.8% |
| 7 |
 Finland |
75,171 |
76,458 |
151,629 |
5.5% |
| 8 |
 Germany |
71,039 |
70,806 |
141,845 |
5.1% |
| 9 |
 Italy |
47,690 |
47,194 |
94,884 |
3.4% |
| 10 |
 Belgium |
40,535 |
42,837 |
83,372 |
3.0% |
Transportation to and from the airport
The airport can be easily reached by car via the main road network. The city of Chania is about 20 minutes drive away.
See also
- List of the busiest airports in Greece
- Transport in Greece
References
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External links
Media related to Chania International Airport at Wikimedia Commons
- http://www.ypa.gr/en/our-airports/kratikos-aerolimenas-xaniwn-i-daskalogiannhs-kaxnd/
- HCAA website
- Greek-Airports website
- Greek Airport Guide
Airport information for LGSA at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.
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