Chania International Airport

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
Location in Greece
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
11L/29R 3,347 10,981 Asphalt
Statistics (2024)
Passengers3,952,126
Passenger traffic change 8.3%
Aircraft movements26,502
Aircraft movements change 7.4%
Source: Fraport-Greece[1]

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.

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.

In 1959, this activity was transferred to the military airport of Souda. 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 10 June 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

On 22 March 2017, Fraport Greece presented its master plan for the 14 Greek regional airports, including Chania International Airport.[8]

Airlines and destinations

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

AirlinesDestinations
Aegean Airlines Athens,[9] Thessaloniki[10]
Seasonal: Rhodes[11]
Air Serbia Seasonal: Belgrade[12]
Animawings Seasonal: Bucharest–Otopeni[13]
Austrian Airlines Seasonal: Vienna[14]
British Airways Seasonal: London–Gatwick (begins 24 May 2026),[15] London–Heathrow[16]
Brussels Airlines Seasonal: Brussels[17]
Condor Seasonal: Frankfurt,[18] Hamburg,[19]
Discover Airlines Seasonal: Frankfurt,[20] Munich[20]
easyJet Seasonal: Amsterdam,[21] Basel/Mulhouse,[22] Berlin,[23] Bristol,[24] Geneva,[25] Glasgow,[25] London–Gatwick,[26] London–Luton,[25] Lyon,[23] Manchester,[25] Milan–Malpensa,[23] Nantes,[27] Nice[23]
Edelweiss Air Seasonal: Zurich[28]
Eurowings Seasonal: Düsseldorf,[29] Graz,[30] Hamburg,[29][31] Stuttgart[32]
Finnair Seasonal: Helsinki[33]
Jet2.com Seasonal: Birmingham,[34] Bristol,[35] East Midlands (begins 26 May 2026),[36] Edinburgh (begins 5 May 2027),[37] Leeds/Bradford,[38] London–Stansted,[39] Manchester,[40] Newcastle upon Tyne[41]
Luxair Seasonal: Luxembourg[42]
Neos Seasonal: Milan–Malpensa[43]
Norwegian Air Shuttle Seasonal: Bergen,[44] Billund (begins 2 May 2026)[45] Copenhagen,[46] Oslo,[47] Stockholm–Arlanda[48]
Ryanair Thessaloniki[23]
Seasonal: Athens,[49] Bergamo,[23] Birmingham,[50] Bologna,[51] Bournemouth,[52] Bucharest–Otopeni,[23] Budapest,[23] Charleroi,[23] Dublin,[23] East Midlands,[23] Gdańsk,[23] Hahn,[23] Kraków,[23] Leeds/Bradford,[23] London–Stansted,[23] Malta,[23] Manchester,[23] Marseille,[23] Memmingen,[23] Naples,[23] Newcastle upon Tyne,[23] Paphos, Pisa,[23] Poznań,[23] Rome–Fiumicino,[23] Sofia,[23] Stockholm–Arlanda,[23] Vienna,[53] Warsaw–Modlin,[23] Weeze,[23] Wrocław[23]
Scandinavian Airlines Seasonal: Copenhagen,[54] Oslo,[54] Stockholm–Arlanda[54]
Sky Express Athens
Seasonal charter: Brno[55]
Smartwings Seasonal: Prague[56]
Seasonal charter: Debrecen,[57] Poznan[58]
Transavia Seasonal: Amsterdam,[59] Lyon,[60] Paris–Orly[61]
TUI Airways Seasonal: Birmingham,[62] London–Gatwick[63]
TUI fly Belgium Seasonal: Brussels,[64] Ostend/Bruges[65]
TUI fly Netherlands[66] Seasonal: Amsterdam[67]
Wizz Air Seasonal: Belgrade (begins 9 June 2026),[68] London–Luton (begins 8 June 2026),[69] Rome–Fiumicino (begins 29 June 2026),[70] Warsaw–Chopin[71][72]

Traffic figures

The data are from Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority (CAA)[73] until 2016, and from 2017 and later from the official website of the airport.[74]

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 896,324 3,055,802 3,952,126
2025(Oct) 830,982 3,161,167 3,992,149

Traffic statistics by country (2024)

Traffic by country at Chania International Airport – 2024
Place Country Total pax
1 Greece 896.324
2 United Kingdom 536.408
3 Germany 370.694
4 Denmark 331.608
5 Poland 302.324
6 Norway 299.407
7 Sweden 239.004
8 Finland 215.089
9 Italy 110.956
10 France 97.794
11 Belgium 81.177
12 Austria 65.685
13 Cyprus 64.266
14 Romania 63.143
15 Hungary 58.854

Source:[75]

Ground transport

The airport can be easily reached by car, bus (to Chania and Rethymnon) or taxi via the main road network.

See also

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