Kos Island International Airport
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The airport of Kos Hippocrates (IATA: KGS, ICAO: LGKO ) (Greek Κρατικός Αερολιμένας Κω, Ιπποκράτης ) is a Greek airport on the island of Kos.
Location on the island
The international airport of Kos is located centrally near the village Andimachia. It is about 26 kilometers from the main town of Kos in the east of the island and 18 kilometers from the village of Kefalos in the west of the island and is built at an altitude of about 130 meters above sea level.
Charter flights
At the airport Kos mostly land charter flights from many European countries, eg from Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France, Spain, Ireland, Denmark, Finland, Czech Republic, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, the United Kingdom and Croatia.
Scheduled flights
The scheduled flights are mostly operated by Greek airlines, these include Olympic Airlines, Aegean Airlines, Sky Express (airline of Crete ) and some smaller airlines. These fly to Kos from some airports in Greece, including Athens ( several times a day ), Rhodes and Kalymnos. The Irish airline Ryanair connects Kos Frankfurt Hahn and Milan Bergamo in.
Airlines
Especially following airlines ( sorted by country) to the airlines, the most common approach include Kos:
- Mainly from the UK, Thomas Cook and Thomson Airways
- From Germany mainly German Wings, TUIFly, Air Berlin, Ryanair as well as Condor
- From the Netherlands mainly Arkefly and Transavia
- Mainly from Austria, Austrian Airlines operated by Tyrolean branded Austrian myholiday and NIKI
- Mainly from Switzerland Edelweiss Air, Swiss and Air Berlin Group ( Belair )
- From Italy Ryanair
History
The airport of Kos Hippocrates was opened on 4 April 1964. At this time, the start and runway was only 1,200 meters long. The airport helped to promote tourism on the island.
In 1973, the runway was doubled to 2,400 meters length to allow the landing of larger aircraft charter. The increased number of passengers then made in 1980 a new terminal necessary.
In 1997, the capacity of the airport Kos was ( next to the departure terminal ) increased significantly by a new one arrival terminals. Previously, the entire passenger traffic in today's departure terminal was (about the same size as the arrival terminal ) handled so that there was at rush hour queues to well before the building in the parking lot.
The only start and runway designation of the airport Kos was changed between 2005 and 2006 from '33 ' and '15' to '32 ' and '14'. This is due to the variation, see start and runway.
Facilities
Start and runway 32/14
The island of Kos Island International Airport has a 2390 -meter-long airstrip. The runway is both approach directions (32 /14) equipped with any instrument landing system ILS and is therefore under visual flight rules, or via a rotary beacon ( VOR / DME) served. In addition, features of the airport of Kos, in contrast to almost all other Greek airports do not have a parallel taxiway to the runway. The aircraft roll for the start to the end of the airstrip, then rotate it 180 ° on a designated turning area and start from there. Usually the start and runway 32 is used, as the wind usually blows from west to north.
Airport fire
Kos Airport has an airport fire department has over three to four fire engines. The fire department is located right next to the Tower.
Aprons and parking positions
There are two Aprons ( platforms ). The significantly greater advance has seven parking positions, where even large aircraft types such as the Boeing 747-400 ( landed a Boeing 747-400 in the summer of 2003 in Kos ) have space. On the smaller the run mostly on smaller aircraft that are parked longer or are privately owned.
Curiosities
Right next to the arrivals building on a small hill stands a Greek chapel; until about the year 2001, this was well visited by tourists because of the airport was possible from here the best view. Then you have access to the Kirchberg and the chapel itself was closed to the public due to the changed security situation.