Kithira Island National Airport

Airport in Kythira

KIT

Location of airport in Greece

Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
02/20	4,794	1,461	Asphalt

Statistics (2018)

Passengers	37,031
Passenger traffic change	9.8%
Aircraft movements	960
Aircraft movements change	8.6%

Sources:HCAA^[1]^[2]

Kithira Island National Airport "Alexandros Aristotelous Onassis" is an airport in Kithira, Greece (IATA: KIT, ICAO: LGKC). The airport was renovated in 1998 and the terminal and control tower were rebuilt. Olympic Air operates scheduled flights to Athens several times a week, while charter flights are common in the summer. Sky Express, a domestic Greek Airline offers three flights per week to Corfu, via Zakynthos, Kefalonia and Preveza. Travel to Kythira by airplane is considered the most reliable method of transportation to the island since it is less affected by the strong winds that prevent ferry boat transit. The airport opened in 1972.^[3]

Airlines and destinations

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

Airlines	Destinations
Olympic Air	Athens
Sky Express	Athens
Smartwings	Seasonal charter: Prague^{[citation needed]}

Statistics

Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org.

Annual passenger traffic at KIT airport. See Wikidata query.

References

^ "KYTHIRA AIRPORT "ΑLEXANDROS ARISTOTELOUS ONASSIS"". ypa.gr. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
^ "Kithira Airport". Archived from the original on 2015-04-10. Retrieved 2015-04-10.
^ "Kithira Airport". Archived from the original on 2015-04-10. Retrieved 2015-04-10.