Chania International Airport

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Chania Airport " Ioannis Daskalogiannis " (English Chania Airport " Ioannis Daskalogiannis "; Greek Κρατικός Αερολιμένας " Ιωάννης Δασκαλογιάννης " ) is an international airport on the island of Crete in southern Greece. It is located about 14 km east of the town of Chania on the Akrotiri Peninsula. It is named after the Cretan resistance fighters Daskalogiannis. The airport is served by several European scheduled and charter airlines, serving from March 2013 as the basis for the budget airline Ryanair.

The southern and the eastern part of the airport is one of the Greek Air Force, which operates these parts for the called the Souda Air Base Air Force Base. During operation of the Space Shuttle here was a possible emergency landing in the event of an unscheduled landing.

History

From 1954 to the Maleme airfield for civil aviation was used. Back in 1959 relieved him of the airfield on the Akrotiri, from then on the civilian air traffic on the over to another military airfield was settled while Maleme for civil aviation was closed. In 1967 the airport received a terminal and two parking spaces for aircraft. In the wake of the strong increase traffic to Crete flights, the airport had to be extended again to no more just domestic flights, but since 1974 to international -handle. In 1996, the current terminal was completed, the airport offers six pitches and should be able to handle up to 1.35 million passengers per year. In fact, the number of passengers is much higher.

Connection

The airport is serviced several times a day from Chania by a bus of KTEL. Outside of the travel times is the arrival is only possible by taxi.

Souda Air Base

The Souda Air Base is home to the 115th squadrons of the Greek Air Force. The base is also used by other NATO air forces for exercises or operations. The 115th Combat Squadron is divided into the 340 and 343 relay. Both squadrons were equipped with Republic F -84F " Thunderstreak " since 1964, rising in 1976 to access the LTV A- 7H Corsair II. In 2002, the Corsair was decommissioned and the season for a short time off. As of 2003, the squadrons were converted to the modern Lockheed F- 16C / D Block 52 "Fighting Falcon".

The base is constructed with two large Schelterschlaufen for over a dozen armored aircraft shelters for each one of the squadrons.

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