Apron of Thessaloniki international airport with view towards passenger terminal

Thessaloniki International Airport, "Macedonia" (Greek: Κρατικός Αερολιμένας Θεσσαλονίκης "Μακεδονία", Kratikós Aeroliménas "Makedonía") (IATA: SKG, ICAO: LGTS) is located about 15 km SE of the city centre of Thessaloniki at Mikra, close to the busy suburb of Kalamaria. The airport opened in 1930 and today it's the fourth busiest airport in Greece.^{[verification needed]}. It is linked to the city centre by a 24-hour bus service (No. 78). An IATA airport code, also known an IATA location identifier or simply a location identifier [1], is a three-letter code designating many airports around the world, defined by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). ... The ICAO (IPA pronunciation: ) airport code or location indicator is a four-letter alphanumeric code designating each airport around the world. ... Thessaloniki, (Greek: Θεσσαλονίκη), is Greeces second-largest city and the capital of the Greek region of Macedonia and the periphery of Central Macedonia. ... The term above mean sea level (AMSL) refers to the elevation (on the ground) or altitude (in the air) of any object, relative to the average sea level. ... A foot (plural: feet or foot;[1] symbol or abbreviation: ft or, sometimes, ′ – a prime) is a unit of length, in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units. ... The or meter (see spelling differences) is a measure of length. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... A foot (plural: feet or foot;[1] symbol or abbreviation: ft or, sometimes, ′ – a prime) is a unit of length, in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units. ... The or meter (see spelling differences) is a measure of length. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1147x860, 210 KB) Summary Makedonia Airport, Thessaloniki-Greece Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1147x860, 210 KB) Summary Makedonia Airport, Thessaloniki-Greece Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... An IATA airport code, also known an IATA location identifier or simply a location identifier [1], is a three-letter code designating many airports around the world, defined by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). ... The ICAO (IPA pronunciation: ) airport code or location indicator is a four-letter alphanumeric code designating each airport around the world. ... Thessaloniki, (Greek: Θεσσαλονίκη), is Greeces second-largest city and the capital of the Greek region of Macedonia and the periphery of Central Macedonia. ... Kalamaria (Greek: Καλαμαριά) is a suburban city in the Thessaloniki Prefecture located about 5 km southeast of downtown Thessaloniki. ...

Airlines and destinations

• Aegean Airlines (Athens, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Heraklion, Rhodes, Larnaca, Munich, Mytilene, Stuttgart)
• Aerosvit Airlines (Kiev-Boryspil)
• Air Berlin (Berlin-Schönefeld, Berlin-Tegel, Cologne/Bonn, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Erfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Münster/Osnabrück, Nuremberg, Paderborn/Lippstadt) [seasonal]
• Air Malta (Malta [seasonal])
• Air 400 (Moscow-Domodedovo) [summer 2007]
• Alitalia (Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino)
• Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
• BlueAir (Bucharest-Bǎneasa)
• British Airways (London-Gatwick)
• Centralwings (Warsaw) [Starts June 12,2007]
• Condor Airlines (Frankfurt)
• Cyprus Airways (Larnaca, Paphos, Paris)
• Czech Airlines (Prague)
• easyJet (Dortmund) [starts May 31 2007]
• Elbrus Avia (Nalchik)
• Germanwings (Cologne/Bonn, Stuttgart)
• Karat (airline) (Anapa)
• Kavminvodyavia (Mineralnye Vody)
• KrasAir (Moscow-Domodedovo)
• Kuban Airlines (Krasnodar)
• LTU International (Düsseldorf, Munich)
• Malév Hungarian Airlines (Budapest)
• Olympic Airlines (Athens, Berlin-Tegel, Corfu, Chania, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Heraklion, Istanbul-Ataturk, Kalamata, Limnos, London-Gatwick, Mytilene, Rhodes, Samos, Skiros, Stuttgart)
• Rossiya (St. Petersburg) [summer 2007]
• Samara Airlines Samara [summer 2007]
• SkyEurope (Budapest, Krakow [starts June 2007], Prague, Bratislava, Vienna)
• Smart Wings (Prague, Ostrava [summer 2007])
• Swiss International Air Lines (Zürich)
• Syrianair (Damascus [seasonal])
• TAROM (Bucharest-Otopeni)
• TUIfly (Bremen, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hannover, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Nuremberg, Stuttgart)
• Ural Airlines (Ekaterinburg) [summer 2007]
• VIM Airlines (Moscow-Domodedovo)
• Wizz Air (Budapest) [starts June 12 2007]
• XL Airways (Manchester [summers only])

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Incidents

• December 17, 1997, A Yakovlev 42 of Aerosvit Airlines, operating the route from Odessa, Ukraine to Thessaloniki, lost contact with the airport's air traffic control and during the second attempt the aircraft was crashed in the Pierian mountains, near Mount Olympus. A total of 70 people, passengers and crew, were killed.

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External links

• Greek Airports: Thessaloniki International Airport, "Macedonia"
• Greek Airport Guide: Thessaloniki Airport, "Makedonia"
• World Aero Data airport information for LGTS
• Street map from Multimap
• Satellite image from TerraServer