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Athens International Airport

Athens Metropolitan Area

IATAATH
ICAOLGAV

34 million Passengers a year (2025)

Serves: Athens Metropolitan Area
Operator: Athens International Airport S.A.
Owner: Not recorded
Opened: 28 March 2001
Elevation: 308 ft (94 m)
Runways: 2 (longest 4,000 m)
Airlines based here: Aegean Airlines, Olympic Air
Website: www.aia.gr

About the airport

Athens International Airport Eleftherios Venizelos (IATA: ATH, ICAO: LGAV), commonly initialised as AIA, is the largest international airport in Greece, serving the city of Athens and the region of Attica as well as connecting traffic. It began operation on 28 March 2001 (in time for the 2004 Summer Olympics) and is the main base of Aegean Airlines, as well as other smaller Greek airlines. It replaced the old Ellinikon International Airport. Athens International Airport is a member of Group 1 of Airports Council International (over 25 million passengers). As of 2025, it is the 15th-busiest airport in Europe and the second busiest and second largest in the Balkans, after Istanbul Airport.

This summary is adapted from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Licence. Passenger and runway figures come from the same source and can lag the latest annual totals, so check the figures the operator publishes for the current total.

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