Kos International Airport

Kos International Airport (also known as Hippocrates) (Greek: Διεθνής Αερολιμένας Κω "Ιπποκράτης") (IATA: KGS, ICAO: LGKO) is an international airport on the island of Kos in Greece. It is located near Andimachia Village, and is operated by Fraport AG, all operations within the airport are handled by Swissport.

"Kos Airport" redirects here. For the airport in Cambodia with IATA code KOS, see Sihanouk International Airport.

Kos International Airport Κρατικός Αερολιμένας Κω "Ιπποκράτης"
IATA: KGS ICAO: LGKO
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Greek state
Operator	Fraport Greece
Serves	Kos Island
Location	Andimachia, Greece
Focus city for	Aegean Airlines
Elevation AMSL	409 ft / 126 m
Coordinates	36°47′36.01″N 27°05′30″E
Website	kgs-airport.gr
Map
KGS Location of airport in Greece
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 14/32 7,874 2,400 Asphalt
Statistics (2019)
Passengers 2,676,644 Passenger traffic change 0.4% Aircraft movements 19,797 Aircraft movements change 2.6%
Statistics[1]

The airport mainly serves charter airlines, who bring customers on holiday to the island. Kos Airport hits its peak in summer, with flights from German and British airlines primarily.

History

1964

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

2015

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 11 April 2017.

2017

On 22 March 2017, Fraport AG and its Greek subsidiary Fraport Greece presented its plans for 14 regional airports that they had been handed control of by the Greek Government.[4] The immediate actions by Fraport were to improve lighting, improve the marking of airside areas, upgrade sanitary facilities, enhance WiFi services and implementing better fire safety throughout the airport.

The long term plans by the operator, which are due to continue until 2021, are to build a new terminal and a new fire station, refurbish the waste water treatment plant, and add more security check lanes and check in counters.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Aegean Airlines[5]	Athens, Thessaloniki Seasonal: Larnaca
Aircompany Armenia	Seasonal: Yerevan
Arkia	Seasonal charter: Tel Aviv[6]
ASL Airlines France	Seasonal charter: Manchester
Austrian Airlines	Seasonal: Vienna Seasonal charter: Graz, Linz
Aviolet	Seasonal charter: Belgrade
Blue Air	Seasonal charter: Larnaca
Bluebird Airways	Seasonal: Tel Aviv
Blue Panorama Airlines	Seasonal: Bergamo, Milan–Malpensa, Rome–Fiumicino[7]
British Airways	Seasonal: London–Gatwick
Buzz	Seasonal charter: Kraków [8]
Chair Airlines	Seasonal: Zürich
Condor	Seasonal: Berlin–Schönefeld ,[9] Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hannover, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Stuttgart
Corendon Airlines Europe	Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn, Hannover ,[10] Münster/Osnabrück, Nuremberg
Corendon Dutch Airlines	Seasonal: Groningen, Maastricht/Aachen
easyJet	Seasonal: Berlin–Tegel, Bristol, Glasgow, London–Gatwick, Milan–Malpensa, Venice
Edelweiss Air	Seasonal: Zürich
Enter Air[8]	Seasonal charter: Gdańsk, Katowice, Poznań, Warsaw–Chopin
Eurowings	Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn, Hamburg, Hannover, Munich, Salzburg
flyBAIR	Seasonal charter: Bern
Freebird Airlines Europe	Seasonal charter: Leipzig/Halle [11]
Israir	Seasonal charter: Tel Aviv[6]
Jet2.com	Seasonal: Birmingham, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Leeds/Bradford, London–Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
LOT Polish Airlines	Seasonal: Katowice,[12] Warsaw–Chopin,[13] Wrocław[14] Seasonal charter: Katowice
Neos	Seasonal: Bologna, Milan–Malpensa, Verona[15]
Norwegian Air Shuttle	Seasonal: Copenhagen, Oslo–Gardermoen
Olympic Air	Athens, Thessaloniki
Rossiya Airlines	Seasonal: Moscow–Vnukovo, Saint Petersburg
Ryanair	Seasonal: Berlin–Tegel, Bologna, Düsseldorf, Rome–Fiumicino, Vienna [16]
Scandinavian Airlines	Seasonal charter: Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Oslo–Gardermoen, Stavanger,[17] Stockholm-Arlanda
Sky Express	Astypalaia, Athens, Heraklion, Kalymnos (PSO), Leros (PSO), Rhodes (PSO)
Smartwings	Seasonal: Bratislava, Brno, Ostrava, Prague
Sundair	Seasonal: Dresden
Transavia	Seasonal: Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Rotterdam[18]
Transavia France	Seasonal: Paris–Orly
TUI Airways	Seasonal: Belfast–International, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Doncaster/Sheffield, East Midlands, London–Gatwick, London–Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne Seasonal charter: Dublin[19]
TUI fly Belgium	Seasonal: Brussels, Innsbruck, Liège, Ostend/Bruges
TUI fly Deutschland	Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse, Berlin–Tegel, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hannover, Munich, Nuremberg, Paderborn/Lippstadt, Saarbrücken, Stuttgart, Vienna
TUI fly Netherlands	Seasonal: Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Rotterdam
TUI fly Nordic	Seasonal charter: Gothenburg,[20] Norrköping,[21] Oslo-Gardermoen,[17] Stockholm–Arlanda[20]
Volotea	Seasonal: Venice[22]
Vueling	Seasonal: Rome–Fiumicino

Statistics

The data are from Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority (CAA)[23] until 2016 and from 2017 onwards from the official website of the airport.[24]

Year Passengers Domestic International Total 1994 125,215 1,130,052 1,255,267 1995 141,283 1,015,148 1,156,431 1996 150,271 892,154 1,042,425 1997 153,151 1,006,424 1,159,575 1998 145,312 1,044,604 1,189,916 1999 169,650 1,274,656 1,444,306 2000 217,876 1,360,280 1,578,156 2001 200,614 1,440,986 1,641,600 2002 177,003 1,321,099 1,498,102 2003 183,821 1,278,862 1,462,683 2004 247,758 1,256,941 1,504,699 2005 255,077 1,207,698 1,462,775 2006 251,610 1,321,507 1,573,117 2007 272,271 1,369,410 1,641,681 2008 264,276 1,351,177 1,615,453 2009 260,347 1,257,599 1,517,946 2010 231,057 1,396,183 1,627,240 2011 220,921 1,705,302 1,926,223 2012 192,043 1,605,458 1,797,501 2013 175,422 1,853,196 2,028,618 2014 189,750 2,024,714 2,214,464 2015 201,000 1,942,860 2,143,860 2016 205,695 1,695,800 1,901,495 2017 234,023 2,086,567 2,320,590 2018 271,725 2,394,582 2,666,307 2019 284,948 2.391,696 2.676,644 2020 (Jul) 75.449 100.970 176.419

Ground transport

By public bus:[25] A transit bus service operates between the airport and Kos town, Mastichari, Kardamena and Kefalos. There is a public bus stop 50m from the terminal building.

By tour operator transfer: Tour operators such as Jet2holidays and TUI UK provide free bus transfers from customers' accommodation to the airport.

By taxi:[26] 24/7 metered taxi service is available outside the Kos Airport Terminal building.

By car:[27] Kos Airport is located 24 km from the Kos town and is accessible from the provincial road Kos-Kefalos.

Accidents and incidents

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

See also

• Transport in Greece

References

1. "KOS AIRPORT "IPPOKRATIS"". kgs-airport.gr. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
2. "Greece signs privatization of 14 regional airports with Germany's Fraport - TornosNews.gr". Retrieved 4 May 2017.
3. Editorial, Reuters. "REFILE-UPDATE 1-Greece signs major privatisation deal with Germany's Fraport". Retrieved 4 May 2017.
4. "Fraport Greece’s Development Plan for the New Era at the Greek Regional Airports", fraport-greece.com
5. https://en.aegeanair.com/plan/flight-schedules/
6. http://www.iaa.gov.il/he-IL/airports/BenGurion/Pages/OnlineFlights.aspx?mode=out
7. 2017, UBM (UK) Ltd. "Blu Express adds new seasonal routes in S17". Retrieved 4 May 2017.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
8. "Charter flights". tui.pl.
9. Liu, Jim (7 January 2020). "Condor S20 Short-Haul network additions as of 06JAN20". routesonline.com.
10. Liu, Jim. "Corendon Airlines S20 Network expansion". Routesonline. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
11. "Tui sends Freebird Europe to Leipzig / Halle - Airbus A320 is stationed in Schkeuditz". lvz.de. 4 October 2019.
12. "LOT will launch 130 connections to several dozen European resorts". 24 June 2020.
13. https://businessinsider.com.pl/firmy/wakacje-2020-lot-poleci-do-kurortow-w-grecji-hiszpanii-i-wloch/zz5f5ew
14. "LOT will launch 130 connections to several dozen European resorts". 24 June 2020.
15. "Flight Times". neosair.it/en.
16. Liu, Jim. "Ryanair / Laudamotion S20 network consolidation as of 18JUN20". Routesonline. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
17. "Only Flight". tui.no.
18. 2017, UBM (UK) Ltd. "Transavia Adds New Eindhoven Routes in S16". Routesonline. Retrieved 4 May 2017.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
19. "Flight Timetable". TUI Holidays.ie.
20. "Only Flight". tui.se.
21. Liu, Jim (3 January 2020). "TUIfly Nordic outlines Norrkoping network in S20". routesonline.com.
22. volotea (25 October 2016). "VOLOTEA - Bookings, vacations, destinations, flights, routes". Volotea. Retrieved 4 May 2017.
23. "KOS AIRPORT IPPOKRATIS", ypa.gr
24. "Air Traffic statistics", kgs-airport.gr
25. "By Public Bus | Kos Airport (KGS)". www.kgs-airport.gr. Retrieved 24 June 2017.
26. "By Taxi | Kos Airport (KGS)". www.kgs-airport.gr. Retrieved 24 June 2017.
27. "By Car | Kos Airport (KGS)". www.kgs-airport.gr. Retrieved 24 June 2017.

External links

• Kos Airport stats