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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. 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 sixth busiest airport in Greece.

Chania International Airport "Daskalogiannis" Κρατικός Αερολιμένας Χανίων, "Δασκαλογιάννης"
IATA: CHQ ICAO: LGSA
Summary
Airport type	Public/military
Owner	Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority
Operator	Fraport Greece
Serves	Chania, Crete
Focus city for	Aegean Airlines Ryanair
Elevation AMSL	149 m / 490 ft
Coordinates	35°31′54″N 024°08′59″E
Website	chq-airport.gr
Map
CHQ Location in Greece
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 11/29 3,347 10,982 Asphalt
Statistics (2021)
Passengers 1,795,236 Passenger traffic change 155.19% Aircraft movements 16,157 Aircraft movements change 118.57%
Source: Fraport-Greece[1]

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. ^{[citation needed]}

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. ^{[citation needed]} 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 as a military airfield by the Hellenic Air Force.[2][3]

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] Fraport Greece completed the new aircraft layouts, which are now using push back to double the parking space. The passenger safety area has been expanded, the number of hand baggage scanners from 5 to 8, the duty-free store space trebled from 400 sq.m. to 1,200 sq. meters, the VIP space moved to increase the number of boarding gates from 14 to 16 and the dividing walls in the departure halls were removed in order to create a space of 3,000 sq. meters. A new sewage pumping station was built and the network (about 3.5 km) was connected to the municipal network, electromechanical installations (new MCCs^{[clarification needed]}, wiring, lighting, electrical panels, etc.) were optimized, the apron lighting was upgraded, the WCs were renovated to increase the number of toilets in the non-Schengen area, and the escalator was moved to use the available space better.

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 meeting in Singapore with the leader of North Korea Kim Jong-un.[7]

Fraport Greece's investment plan

This article is in list format but may read better as prose. (December 2018)

On 22 March 2017, Fraport Greece presented its master plan for the 14 Greek regional airports, including Chania International Airport.[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 a 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 Seasonal charter: Kalmar, Kristiansand, Ljubljana, Luleå, Trondheim, Vaasa
Air Serbia	Seasonal charter: Belgrade
Airseven[9]	Seasonal charter: Aarhus, Billund
Animawings	Seasonal: Bucharest (begins 26 June 2023)[10]
Austrian Airlines	Seasonal: Vienna
Avion Express	Seasonal charter: Helsinki, Oulu
British Airways	Seasonal: London–Heathrow
Brussels Airlines	Seasonal: Brussels
Buzz	Seasonal charter: Katowice
Condor	Seasonal: Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich
Corendon Airlines	Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse,[11] Billund,[12] Cologne/Bonn,[11] Copenhagen,[12] Nuremberg,[13] Stockholm–Arlanda Seasonal charter: Helsinki
easyJet	Seasonal: Berlin, Geneva, Glasgow,[14] London–Gatwick, London–Luton, Lyon, Manchester, Milan–Malpensa, Nice
Edelweiss Air	Seasonal: Zurich
Enter Air[15]	Seasonal charter: Helsinki,[citation needed] Katowice, Rzeszów
Eurowings	Seasonal: Düsseldorf, Hamburg,[16] Stuttgart
Eurowings Discover	Seasonal: Frankfurt, Munich
Finnair	Seasonal: Helsinki
Jet Time	Seasonal charter: Billund, Helsinki
Jet2.com	Seasonal: Birmingham, Bristol (begins 24 July 2023),[17] East Midlands (begins 3 May 2024),[18] Leeds/Bradford, London–Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne (begins 2 May 2024)[19]
Lufthansa	Seasonal: Frankfurt
Luxair	Seasonal: Luxembourg (begins 12 May 2023)[20]
Norwegian Air Shuttle	Seasonal: Bergen, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo, Stockholm–Arlanda Seasonal charter: Bodø
Novair	Seasonal charter: Billund,[21] Gothenburg,[21] Oslo,[21] Stockholm–Arlanda[21]
Olympic Air	Seasonal: Thessaloniki
Ryanair	Paphos, Thessaloniki Seasonal: Bari, Bergamo, Berlin, Bologna, Bremen, Bucharest, Budapest, Charleroi, Dublin, East Midlands, Gdańsk, Hahn, Kraków, Leeds/Bradford, London–Stansted, Malta, Manchester, Marseille, Memmingen, Naples, Newcastle upon Tyne, Nuremberg,[22] Pisa,[23] Poznań, Rome–Ciampino, Rome–Fiumicino, Sofia, Stockholm–Arlanda, Tel Aviv, Treviso, Turin, Vienna, Warsaw–Modlin, Weeze, Wrocław
Scandinavian Airlines	Seasonal: Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm–Arlanda Seasonal charter: Aalborg,[21] Bergen, Bodø, Haugesund, Kristiansand, Gothenburg, Stavanger, Tromsø, Trondheim, Ålesund, Molde, Harstad
Sky Express	Athens
Smartwings	Seasonal: Prague Seasonal charter: Budapest,[24] Gdańsk, Katowice, Poznań, Warsaw–Chopin
Sunclass Airlines	Seasonal charter: Bergen, Billund, Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Helsinki, Malmö, Oslo, Stavanger, Stockholm–Arlanda, Trondheim
TAROM	Seasonal charter: Bucharest, Cluj Napoca
Transavia	Seasonal: Amsterdam, Paris–Orly
TUI Airways	Seasonal: Birmingham, London–Gatwick, Manchester
TUI fly Belgium	Seasonal: Brussels, Ostend/Bruges
TUI fly Nordic	Seasonal charter: Copenhagen, Gothenburg,[25] Norrköping,[26] Oslo,[27] Stockholm–Arlanda
Widerøe	Seasonal charter: Bergen
Wizz Air	Seasonal: Bari, Budapest, Cluj-Napoca, London–Gatwick, Vienna, Warsaw–Chopin

Traffic figures

The data are from Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority (CAA)[28] until 2016, and from 2017 and later from the official website of the airport.[29]

Year Passengers Domestic International Total 1994 204,360 621,986 826,346 1995 220,910 669,516 890,426 1996 244,146 587,106 831,252 1997 301,471 622,689 924,160 1998 292,504 676,687 969,191 1999 414,429 816,045 1,230,474 2000 515,093 901,710 1,416,803 2001 395,864 1,033,118 1,428,982 2002 331,521 1,053,058 1,384,579 2003 413,541 1,066,112 1,479,653 2004 382,224 1,064,153 1,446,377 2005 401,141 1,111,628 1,512,769 2006 437,403 1,323,556 1,760,959 2007 514,318 1,368,516 1,882,834 2008 522,658 1,343,923 1,866,581 2009 575,687 1,219,779 1,795,466 2010 468,279 1,186,585 1,654,864 2011 449,211 1,325,497 1,774,708 2012 397,661 1,435,313 1,832,974 2013 379,280 1,699,577 2,078,857 2014 578,286 1,869,280 2,447,566 2015 827,190 1,875,093 2,702,283 2016 881,031 2,085,666 2,966,697 2017 831,324 2,111,085 3,042,409 2018 646,723 2,361,964 3,008,687 2019 672,945 2,310,597 2,983,542 2020 295.385 408.097 703.482 2021 454,298 1,340,938 1,795,236 2022(Oct) 561,447 2,600,323 3,161,770

Traffic statistics by country (2018)

Traffic by country at Chania International Airport – 2018

Place	Country	Arriving pax	Departing pax	Total pax
1	Sweden	164,385	164,365	328,750
2	Great Britain	162,160	163,137	325,297
3	Norway	154,429	154,459	308,888
4	Denmark	147,764	151,220	298,984
5	Poland	108,060	107,675	215,735
6	Finland	96,759	97,974	194,733
7	Germany	84,093	84,101	168,194
8	Italy	43,192	42,528	85,720
9	Belgium	36,906	37,209	74,115
10	Cyprus	32,303	31,734	64,037

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Transportation to and from the airport

The airport can be easily reached by car, bus or taxi via the main road network. The city of Chania is about 22 minutes' drive away. in 2022 the bus fare is €3.20 and the supposed flat-rate taxi fare is €23.

See also

• List of airports in Crete
• List of the busiest airports in Greece
• Transport in Greece

References

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 Archived 30 May 2012 at archive.today
• Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority

На других языках

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[de] Flughafen Chania

Der Internationale Flughafen Chania „Ioannis Daskalogiannis“ (englisch Chania International Airport “Ioannis Daskalogiannis”; griechisch Διεθνής Αερολιμένας Χανίων «Ιωάννης Δασκαλογιάννης» .mw-parser-output .Latn{font-family:"Akzidenz Grotesk","Arial","Avant Garde Gothic","Calibri","Futura","Geneva","Gill Sans","Helvetica","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode","Lucida Grande","Stone Sans","Tahoma","Trebuchet","Univers","Verdana"}Diethnis Aerolimenas Chanion «Ioannis Daskalogiannis»; IATA: CHQ, ICAO: LGSA) ist ein internationaler Flughafen auf der Insel Kreta in Südgriechenland.

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- [en] Chania International Airport

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[es] Aeropuerto Internacional de La Canea

El Aeropuerto Internacional de La Canea (en griego, Κρατικός Αερολιμένας Χανίων, "Δασκαλογιάννης"; Kratikos Aerolimenas Chanion Daskalogiannis) (IATA: CHQ, OACI: LGSA) es un aeropuerto internacional situado cerca de la Bahía de Suda en la isla griega de Creta. Presta servicio a la ciudad de La Canea y está situado a 14 km de ella. Es también una puerta de acceso para los turistas en el oeste de Creta. El aeropuerto debe su nombre a Daskalogiannis, un rebelde cretense que lideró una revuelta contra el Imperio otomano en el siglo XVIII.

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[fr] Aéroport international de La Canée

L'aéroport international de La Canée « Ioánnis-Daskaloyánnis », en grec moderne : Διεθνής Αερολιμένας Χανίων «Ιωάννης Δασκαλογιάννης», (code IATA : CHQ • code OACI : LGSA) est un aéroport situé près de la baie de Souda sur la péninsule d'Akrotíri de l'île de Crète, desservant la ville de La Canée située à 14 km. C'est la porte d'entrée touristique de l'ouest de la Crète. Il porte le nom de Daskaloyánnis, un héros sfakiote écorché vif par les Ottomans au XVIIIe siècle. C'est par ailleurs le cinquième aéroport le plus fréquenté du pays.

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[it] Aeroporto di La Canea-Suda

L'Aeroporto Internazionale di La Canea-Suda (IATA: CHQ, ICAO LGSA) o Aeroporto Ioannis Daskalogiannis (greco: Κρατικός Αερολιμένας Χανίων Ιωάννης Δασκαλογιάννης) è un aeroporto militare greco aperto al traffico civile ed è il secondo aeroporto per importanza dell'isola di Creta. È intitolato al cretese Ioannis Daskalogiannis, che lottò contro le forze ottomane nel XVIII secolo. Le compagnie principali che operano sull'aeroporto di La Canea-Suda sono Aegean Airlines e Ryanair, anche se lo scalo durante i mesi estivi vede un elevato traffico di voli charter.

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[ru] Иоаннис Даскалояннис (аэропорт)

Аэропорт Ханья́ «Иоаннис Даскалояннис» (греч. Αερολιμένας Χανίων «Ιωάννης Δασκαλογιάννης»; ИАТА: CHQ, ИКАО: LGSA) — международный аэропорт совместного базирования на острове Крит в Греции, расположенный в 10 километрах от города Ханья.

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