Kos Island International Airport

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Kos Island International Airport, Hippocrates
Κρατικός Αερολιμένας Κω, Ιπποκράτης
Kos airport.jpg
IATA: KGS – ICAO: LGKO
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner Greek state
Operator Fraport AG/Copelouzos Group joint venture
Serves Kos Island
Location Andimachia, Greece
Focus city for
Elevation AMSL 409 ft / 126 m
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Map
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Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
14/32 7,841 2,390 asphalt
Statistics (2003)
Domestic arrivals 90,670
Domestic departures 93,151
International arrivals 637,073
International departures 641,789

Kos Island International Airport, "Hippocrates" (IATA: KGS, ICAO: LGKO), or Κρατικός Αερολιμένας Κω, Ιπποκράτης in Greek, is an airport serving the island of Kos, Greece. The airport is located near to Andimachia village. It is also the second closest airport to Bodrum after Milas-Bodrum Airport.

History

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

Privatisation

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 autumn 2016.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines Destinations
Adria Airways Seasonal charter: Ljubljana
Aegean Airlines Seasonal charter: Bucharest, Helsinki, Maribor, Moscow–Domodedovo, Östersund, Rostov-on-Don, Saint Petersburg, Tel Aviv–Ben Gurion
Air Berlin Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse, Berlin–Tegel, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Nuremberg, Zürich
Air Bucharest Seasonal charter: Bucharest
Air Méditerranée Seasonal: Marseille, Nantes
Austrian Airlines Seasonal: Innsbruck,[4] Linz, Vienna
Seasonal charter: Graz
Astra Airlines Thessaloniki
Aviolet
operated by Air Serbia		 Seasonal charter: Belgrade
BlueBird Airways Seasonal charter: Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion
Blu-express
operated by Blue Panorama Airlines		 Seasonal: Rome–Fiumicino
British Airways Seasonal: London–Heathrow[5]
Condor Seasonal: Berlin–Schönefeld, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hannover, Leipzig/Halle, Manchester, Munich, Stuttgart
Corendon Dutch Airlines Seasonal: Amsterdam
easyJet Summer seasonal: Glasgow, London–Gatwick, Milan–Malpensa
Edelweiss Air Seasonal: Zürich
Enter Air Seasonal charter: Gdańsk, Katowice, Poznań, Warsaw–Chopin, Wrocław
Finnair Seasonal: Helsinki
Germania[6] Summer seasonal: Bremen, Dresden, Friedrichshafen, Münster/Osnabrück
Germanwings Summer seasonal: Cologne/Bonn
Helvetic Airways Seasonal charter: Bern
Germania Flug Seasonal: Zürich (begins 30 April 2016)[7]
Jet2.com Seasonal: East Midlands, Leeds/Bradford, Manchester
Jetairfly[8] Summer seasonal: Brussels, Liège, Ostend/Bruges
Meridiana Seasonal: Turin
Monarch Airlines Seasonal: Birmingham, London–Luton, Manchester
Neos Seasonal: Bergamo, Bologna, Milan–Malpensa, Rome–Fiumicino, Verona
Norwegian Air Shuttle Seasonal: Copenhagen, Oslo–Gardermoen
Sesonal charter: Helsinki
Olympic Air Astypalaia (PSO), Athens, Kalymnos (PSO), Leros (PSO), Rhodes (PSO)
Olympic Air
operated by Aegean Airlines		 Seasonal: Athens, Thessaloniki (begins 30 May 2016)[9]
Orenair Seasonal charter: Belgorod[10]
Ryanair Summer seasonal: Bari, Bergamo, Bologna, Kaunas, Kraków, Leeds/Bradford, Liverpool, London–Stansted, Moss, Pisa, Rome–Fiumicino (begins 29 March 2016)[11]
Scandinavian Airlines Seasonal charter: Copenhagen, Oslo–Gardermoen, Trondheim
Sky Express Heraklion
Small Planet Airlines Seasonal charter: Budapest, Manchester, Milan–Malpensa, Vilnius
SmartWings
operated by Travel Service Airlines		 Summer seasonal: Brno, Budapest,[12] Ostrava, Prague
TAROM Seasonal charter: Bucharest
Thomas Cook Airlines Seasonal charter: Birmingham, Glasgow, London–Gatwick, London–Stansted,[13] Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium Seasonal charter: Brussels, Liège
Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia Seasonal charter: Copenhagen, Helsinki
Thomson Airways[14] Seasonal charter: Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Doncaster/Sheffield, Dublin,[15] East Midlands, Glasgow, London–Gatwick, London–Stansted,[16] Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
Transavia Seasonal: Amsterdam, Eindhoven (begins 24 April 2016),[17] Groningen, Rotterdam
Travel Service Airlines Seasonal charter: Brno, Budapest, Ostrava, Prague
TUI Airlines Netherlands Seasonal: Amsterdam
TUIfly Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hannover, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Munich, Nuremberg, Saarbrücken, Stuttgart, Vienna
Tus Airways Seasonal: Larnaca[18]
VIM Airlines Seasonal: Moscow–Domodedovo[19]
Volotea Seasonal: Venice[20]
Vueling Seasonal: Rome–Fiumicino

Accidents and Incidents

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

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.alxd.gr/AirportGuide/kos/kosE.html
  2. ↑ http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/tourism-businesses/new-investments/13859-greece-signs-privatization-of-14-regional-airports-with-germany-s-fraport-for-e1-2-bln.html
  3. ↑ http://uk.reuters.com/article/eurozone-greece-privatisation-idUKL8N1431P720151214
  4. ↑ http://airlineroute.net/2014/10/24/os-innkgs-s15/
  5. ↑ http://www.thetoc.gr/eng/food--travel/article/british-airways-to-add-routes-to-corfu-and-kos
  6. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  7. ↑ https://www.germania.ch/en/
  8. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  9. ↑ https://www.olympicair.com/en/Travel/Reservations/Tickets
  10. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  11. ↑ http://www.ryanair.com/
  12. ↑ http://airlineroute.net/2015/03/23/qs-hungary-s15/
  13. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  14. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  15. ↑ http://info.flightmapper.net/route/YY_KGS_DUB
  16. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  17. ↑ http://airlineroute.net/2015/11/11/hv-ein-s16/
  18. ↑ http://tusairways.aerocrs.net/
  19. ↑ http://www.mouzenidis.gr/avia-table/?CurPage=1&DepartureCityId=860&ArrivalCityId=1&DaysFlow=0&DateFrom=26-04-2015
  20. ↑ http://www.volotea.com/en/destinations/

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