Kephalonia International Airport

Kefalonia Airport "Anna Pollatou"
Αερολιμένας Κεφαλονιάς "Άννα Πολλάτου"
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner Greek state
Operator Fraport AG/Copelouzos Group joint venture
Serves Kefalonia, Greece
Location Argostoli
Elevation AMSL 59 ft / 18 m
Coordinates 38°07′12″N 020°30′01″E / 38.12000°N 20.50028°E / 38.12000; 20.50028
Website https://www.efl-airport.gr/en
Map
EFL
Location of airport in Greece
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
14/32 2,436 7,992 Asphalt
Statistics (2017)
Passengers 629,671
Passenger traffic change Increase 15.1%
Aircraft movements 5,903
Aircraft movements change Increase 20.1%
Sources:Fraport Greece,[1] DAFIF,[2][3]

Kefalonia Airport "Anna Pollatou" (IATA: EFL, ICAO: LGKF) is an airport on the island of Kefalonia, in Greece.

History

The airport opened in 1971 to serve the former municipality Leivathos with improved transportation links; Kefalonia is now a single municipality. A new runway and the current terminal building were constructed in the 1980s.

In December 2015 the privatisation of Kefalonia 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 Kefallinia International Airport) for 40 years as of autumn 2016.

The new operator started to plan a new terminal building.

Airlines and destinations

AirlinesDestinations
Adria Airways Seasonal charter: Graz, Klagenfurt, Ljubljana
ASL Airlines FranceSeasonal charter: Manchester
Austrian AirlinesSeasonal: Vienna
Avanti AirSeasonal charter: Innsbruck
Aviolet Seasonal charter: Belgrade
British AirwaysSeasonal: London–Heathrow
Blu-express Seasonal: Bologna,[6] Rome-Fiumicino
Condor Seasonal: Düsseldorf (begins 02 May 2019), Munich
Czech Airlines Seasonal charter: Prague
Danish Air TransportSeasonal Charter: Copenhagen
easyJetSeasonal: Berlin-Tegel , Bristol, London-Gatwick, Manchester[7], Milan-Malpensa
Enter AirSeasonal Charter: Birmingham, London-Gatwick
FlybeSeasonal charter: Birmingham, Manchester
GermaniaSeasonal Charter: London-Gatwick
Jet2.com Seasonal: Birmingham (begins 7 May 2019), East Midlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow,[8] Leeds/Bradford, London-Stansted, Manchester
Norwegian Air ShuttleSeasonal: London-Gatwick, Oslo-Gardermoen
Olympic Air Athens
People's Seasonal: St. Gallen/Altenrhein[9]
RyanairSeasonal: Bergamo, London-Stansted, Pisa
Scandinavian AirlinesSeasonal charter: Göteborg, Stockholm-Arlanda
Sky Express Athens, Preveza/Lefkada (PSO), Zakynthos (PSO)
Small Planet Airlines Seasonal charter: Katowice[10]
Thomas Cook AirlinesSeasonal: Birmingham, Bristol, London-Gatwick, London-Stansted [11], Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
TransaviaSeasonal charter: Amsterdam
TUI AirwaysSeasonal: Birmingham, Bournemouth (begins 7 May 2019)[12], Bristol, Cardiff, Doncaster/Sheffield, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle
TUI fly NetherlandsSeasonal: Amsterdam[13]
Volotea Seasonal: Venice[14]
Vueling Seasonal: Rome-Fiumicino

Ground transport

KTEL runs a limited bus service between the Airport and Argostoli.[15]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "KEFALLINIA AIRPORT". Retrieved 9 January 2018.
  2. ↑ Airport information for LGKF at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.
  3. ↑ Airport information for EFL at Great Circle Mapper.
  4. ↑ "Tornos News | Greece signs privatization of 14 regional airports with Germany's Fraport". Tornosnews.gr. 2015-12-14. Retrieved 2017-10-17.
  5. ↑ Reuters Editorial (2015-12-14). "REFILE-UPDATE 1-Greece signs major privatisation deal with Germany's Fraport | Reuters". Uk.reuters.com. Retrieved 2017-10-17.
  6. ↑ "Blu Express adds new seasonal routes in S17". Routesonline. Retrieved 2017-10-17.
  7. ↑ "New routes for summer 2015". Easyjet.
  8. ↑ "Cheap Flights to Kefalonia from Glasgow Intl". Jet2.com. Retrieved 2017-10-17.
  9. ↑ "Peoples fliegt Charterflüge ab Salzburg - Austrian Aviation Net". www.austrianaviation.net.
  10. ↑ https://www.smallplanet.aero/en/flight-schedule/1398?from=KTW&to=EFL&date=&number=
  11. ↑ "Thomas Cook Flights". Fly Thomas Cook Airlines. Retrieved 2017-10-17.
  12. ↑ "Flight Timetable". tui.co.uk. 5 November 2017. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  13. ↑ "Vliegbestemmingen TUIfly". tuifly.nl. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
  14. ↑ "Volotea S17 New routes as of 10OCT16". Routesonline. 2016-10-10. Retrieved 2017-10-17.
  15. ↑ "Ktel Kefalonias". www.ktelkefalonias.gr. 2017-08-14. Retrieved 2017-10-17.

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