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Kos (KGS)
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| Time zone: |
GMT 2 |
| Country: |
Greece (GR) |
| Latitude / Longitude: |
36°47'35"N / 27°5'30"E |
| Alternative spelling: |
Kos |
| Service telephone: |
+30 22420-56000 |
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| Address: |
Kos International Airport - "Hippocrates", Kos, Dodecanese, Greece |
Passengers: |
0 |
| Operating Company: |
Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority |
Take-off and landing: |
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| Parking spaces: |
Yes; paid short and long-term parking, about 100 spaces. |
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| Altitude of runway: |
125 m |
Length of runway: |
2400 m |
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Operating airlines:
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TUIfly, Olympic Airlines, airberlin, XL Airways Germany, LTU, Aegean Airlines, Swiss International Air Lines, MyTravel Airways
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Alternative airports:
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Kalymnos (JKL) 23 km, Leros-Partheni (LRS) 51 km, Bodrum Imsik (BXN) 64 km, Astypalaia Island (JTY) 68 km, Bodrum-Milas Airport (BJV) 72 km, Rhodes (RHO) 99 km |
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Description:
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Kos International Airport is an important airport in Greece. It is on the third largest of the southern Aegean Dodecanese islands, between Kalymnos and Nisiros. At its narrowest point, the Aegean is only 2 miles from the Turkish mainland. The airport is administered by the Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority, which is also responsible for monitoring Greek aerospace
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Location:
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The airport was opened in 1963 and is 18 miles west of the capital of the island near the town of Antimachia. From here, the airport is signposted.
There is a shuttle bus that operates before every Olympic airlines arrival and runs to the capital. All other tourists can take local buses operated by the KTEL to Kos, Mastichari, Kardamena or Kefalos.
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History:
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Destinations:
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Regular scheduled flights to Kos are currently operated by Aegean Airlines from Athens and Thessaloniki, Olympic Airlines from Astypalaia, Athens, Leros and Rhodes and SkyExpress from Heraklion and Thessaloniki.
Seasonal charter flights are also operated between April and October from many European airports for example Adria Airways from Ljubljana, Alitalia, Eurofly/Meridiana and Neos from Bologna, Bergamo, Milan Malpensa, Naples, Rome Fuimiciono and Verona. Austrian Airlines and flyniki fly from Graz, Innsbruck, Linz, Salzburg and Vienna, Edelweiss Air from Geneva and Zurich, El Al and Israir from Tel Aviv, Finnair from Helsinki, Jetairfly and Thomas Cook Belgium from Brussels and Liege, Norwegian Air Shuttle from Stockholm, Transavia from Amsterdam and the English airlines First Choice Airways, flythomascook, Monarch Airlines, Thomsonfly and XL Airways from Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, East-Midlands, Glasgow, London-Gatwick, Manchester and Newcastle. The German airlines airberlin and Tuifly fly from Basel, Berlin-Tegel, Bremen, Dresden, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hamburg, Hanover, Leipzig, Linz, Munich, Nuremberg, Stuttgart and Vienna.
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