Heraklion International Airport, "Nikos Kazantzakis"

Heraklion International Airport, "Nikos Kazantzakis" (Greek: Κρατικός Αερολιμένας Ηρακλείου, "Νίκος Καζαντζάκης") or Nikos Kazantzakis International Airport (IATA: HER, ICAO: LGIR) is the primary airport on the island of Crete, Greece. It is located about 5km from the main city of Heraklion. The airport is named after Heraklion native Nikos Kazantzakis, a Greek writer and philosopher.

Area

Nikos Kazantzakis Airport serves Heraklion (Ηράκλειο), Aghios Nikolaos (Άγιος Νικόλαος), Malia (Mάλλια), Chersonissos (Χερσόνησος) and other resorts. It is Crete's main and busiest airport.

Passenger Information

It is often requested by airlines that passengers do not take any photographs or video of the runway. This is due to an Hellenic Air Force base which operates at the airport.

Airlines and destinations

• Aegean Airlines (Athens, Düsseldorf, Munich, Stuttgart, Thessaloniki)
  
• airBaltic (Riga-seasonal)
  
• Air Berlin (Berlin-Tegel, Dormund, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Erfurt, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Munich, Nuremberg, Paderborn/Lippstadt, Stuttgart, Zürich)
  
• Air Finland (Helsinki)
  
• Air Malta
  
• Alexandair
  
• Alitalia (charter - only in summer season)
  
• Arkefly (Amsterdam)
  
• Austrian Airlines (Linz, Salzburg, Vienna)
  
• Belair (Basel, Geneva, Zurich)
  
• British Airways
  
• operated by GB Airways (London-Gatwick, Manchester)
  
• Centralwings (Warsaw) [Starts June 7, 2007]
  
• Condor Airlines (Berlin-Schönefeld, Berlin-Tegel, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Nuremberg, Stuttgart)
  
• Corsairfly (Paris)
  
• Cyprus Airways (Larnaca)
  
• Estonian Air (Tallinn)
  
• Eurocypria Airlines (Larnaca)
  
• Eurofly (Milan)
  
• First Choice Airways (Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, London-Gatwick, London-Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham)
  
• Germanwings (Cologne/Bonn)
  
• Hamburg International (Friedrichshafen, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Luxembourg, Saarbrücken)
  
• Hello
  
• Jat Airways (Belgrade-Nikola Tesla, Niš) [Starts June 22, 2007]
  
• Kavminvodyavia (Mineralnye Vody)
  
• KD Avia (Kaliningrad)
  
• KrasAir (Krasnoyarsk)
  
• LatCharter (charter - only in summer season)
  
• Lauda Air (Vienna)
  
• LTU International (Berlin-Schönefeld, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich)
  
• Malév Hungarian Airlines (Budapest)
  
• Martinair (Amsterdam)
  
• Monarch Airlines (Dublin)
  
• Montenegro Airlines
  
• Niki (Graz, Linz, Salzburg, Vienna)
  
• Norwegian Air Shuttle (Oslo)
  
• Novair (Stockholm-Arlanda))
  
• Olympic Airlines (Athens, Thessaloniki, Rhodos, Sitia)
  
• Rossiya (Saint Petersburg)
  
• Smart Wings
  
• Sky Express (Rhodos, Santorini, Mitilini, Kos)
  
• S7 Airlines
  
• TNT Airways
  
• Transaero Airlines (Moscow)
  
• transavia.com (Amsterdam)
  
• TUIfly (Basel-Mulhouse, Berlin-Tegel, Bremen, Cologne-Bonn, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Leipzig/Halle, Memmingen, Munich, Münster/Osnabrück, Nuremberg, Stuttgart, Zweibrücken, Zürich)
  
• Viking Airlines
  
• Wizz Air (Budapest, Katowice)
  
• XL Airways (Belfast-International)
  
  

Links

• Greek Airports: Heraklion International Airport, "N. Kazantzakis"
  
• Greek Airport Guide: Iraklio Airport, "N. Kazantzakis"
  
• Photos & Info about Heraklion airport
  
• World Aero Data airport information for LGIR
  
• Street map from Multimap
  
• Satellite image from TerraServer
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