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Chania International Airport

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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"
Summary
Airport typePublic/military
OwnerHellenic Civil Aviation Authority
OperatorFraport Greece
ServesChania, Crete
Focus city for
Elevation AMSL149 m / 490 ft
Coordinates35°31′54″N 024°08′59″E / 35.53167°N 24.14972°E / 35.53167; 24.14972
Websitechq-airport.gr
Map
CHQ is located in Greece
CHQ
CHQ
Location in Greece
Map
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
11/29 3,347 10,982 Asphalt
Statistics (2023)
Passengers3,648,416
Passenger traffic changeIncrease 10.9%
Aircraft movements24,678
Aircraft movements changeIncrease 6.0%
Source: Fraport-Greece[1]

History

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Aerial view
 
Terminal interior

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.[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] 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[5] 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 (approximately 3.5 km) was connected to the municipal network. Electromechanical installations, including new motor control centres (MCCs), wiring, lighting, and electrical panels, were optimized. The apron lighting was upgraded, and the water closets (WCs) were renovated to increase the number of toilets in the non-Schengen area. Additionally, the escalator was relocated to better utilize the available space.[6]

On June 10, 2018, Air Force One carrying U.S. President Donald Trump stopped for refuelling 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

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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

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The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Chania Airport:

AirlinesDestinations
Aegean Airlines Athens,[9] Thessaloniki[10]
Seasonal: Rhodes (begins 14 April 2025),[11] Tel Aviv[12]
Air Serbia Seasonal: Belgrade[13]
Animawings Seasonal: Bucharest–Otopeni[14]
Austrian Airlines Seasonal: Vienna
British Airways Seasonal: London–Heathrow[15]
Braathens International Airways Seasonal charter: Gothenburg[16]
Brussels Airlines Seasonal: Brussels[17]
Condor Seasonal: Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg (resumes 3 May 2025),[18] Leipzig/Halle,[19] Munich
Discover Airlines Seasonal: Frankfurt, Munich
easyJet Seasonal: Amsterdam[20] Basel/Mulhouse[21] Berlin, Bristol,[22] Glasgow, London–Gatwick, London–Luton, Lyon, Manchester, Milan–Malpensa, Nice
Edelweiss Air Seasonal: Zurich
Eurowings Seasonal: Düsseldorf, Graz,[23] Hamburg,[24] Stuttgart
Finnair Seasonal: Helsinki[25]
Israir Airlines Seasonal: Tel Aviv[26]
Jet2.com Seasonal: Birmingham, Bristol,[27] Leeds/Bradford, London–Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne[28]
Lufthansa Seasonal: Frankfurt
Luxair Seasonal: Luxembourg[29]
Marabu[30] Seasonal: Hamburg, Munich
Norwegian Air Shuttle Seasonal: Bergen, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo, Stockholm–Arlanda
Ryanair Paphos, Thessaloniki
Seasonal: Athens,[31] Bergamo, Berlin, Birmingham,[32] Bologna,[33] Bucharest–Otopeni, Budapest, Charleroi, Dublin, East Midlands, Gdańsk, Hahn, Kraków, Leeds/Bradford, London–Stansted, Malta, Manchester, Marseille, Memmingen, Naples, Newcastle upon Tyne, Nuremberg,[34] Pisa,[35] Poznań, Rome–Fiumicino, Sofia, Stockholm–Arlanda, Tel Aviv, Treviso, Vienna,[36] Warsaw–Modlin, Weeze, Wrocław
Scandinavian Airlines Seasonal: Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm–Arlanda
Seasonal charter:[citation needed] Aalborg,[37] Bergen, Bodø, Haugesund, Kristiansand, Gothenburg, Stavanger, Tromsø, Trondheim
Sky Express Athens
Smartwings Seasonal: Prague
Seasonal charter: Debrecen[38]
Sunclass Airlines[citation needed]Seasonal charter: Billund, Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Helsinki, Malmö, Oslo, Stavanger, Stockholm–Arlanda, Trondheim
TransaviaSeasonal: Amsterdam, Paris–Orly
TUI AirwaysSeasonal: Birmingham, London–Gatwick, Manchester
TUI fly BelgiumSeasonal: Brussels, Ostend/Bruges
TUI fly Netherlands[39] Seasonal: Amsterdam
TUI fly NordicSeasonal charter: Copenhagen, Gothenburg,[40] Norrköping,[41] Oslo,[42] Stockholm–Arlanda
Tus Airways Seasonal: Larnaca[43]
Wizz Air Seasonal: Budapest, Cluj-Napoca, Vienna, Warsaw–Chopin

Traffic figures

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Annual passenger traffic at CHQ airport. See Wikidata query.

The data are from Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority (CAA)[44] until 2016, and from 2017 and later from the official website of the airport.[45]

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  678,845  2,611,957  3,290,802
2023  828,793  2,819,623  3,648,416
2024(Oct)  763.822  3.039.348  3.803.170

Traffic statistics by country (2023)

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Traffic by country at Chania International Airport – 2023
Place Country Total pax
1   Greece 828.793
2   United Kingdom 482.708
3   Denmark 315.619
4   Germany 312.716
5   Norway 277.276
6   Poland 257.793
7   Sweden 242.900
8   Finland 205.623
9   Italy 110.399
10   France 83.004
11   Belgium 71.690
12   Austria 68.582
13   Romania 65.210
14   Cyprus 61.049
15   Hungary 48.053

Source:[46]

Transportation to and from the airport

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The airport can be easily reached by car, bus or taxi via the main road network.

See also

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References

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