Heraklion International Airport

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 Heraklio (Ηράκλειο), Agios 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, Larnaca, Munich, Stuttgart, Thessaloniki)
• airBaltic (Riga)
• Air Berlin (Berlin-Tegel, Dormund, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Erfurt, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Munich, Nuremberg, Paderborn/Lippstadt, Stuttgart, Zürich)
• Air Finland (Helsinki)
• Air Malta
• Alexandair
• Arkia Israel Airlines
• Arkefly (Amsterdam)
• Austrian Airlines (Linz, Salzburg, Vienna)
• Belair (Basel, Geneva, Zurich)
• British Airways
  • operated by GB Airways (London-Gatwick, Manchester)
• Centralwings (Warsaw)
• 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 (Dublin, Cork, Shannon, 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, Niš)
• Kavminvodyavia (Mineralnye Vody)
• KD Avia (Kaliningrad)
• KrasAir (Krasnoyarsk)
• LatCharter(Riga)
• Lauda Air (Vienna)
• LTU International (Berlin-Schönefeld, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich)
• Malév Hungarian Airlines (Budapest, Debrecen)
• 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, Mytilene, 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 (Dublin, Lisbon)
• Wizz Air (Budapest, Katowice)
• XL Airways (Belfast-International)

External links

• Greek Airports: Heraklion International Airport, "N. Kazantzakis"
• Greek Airport Guide: Iraklio Airport, "N. Kazantzakis"
• Photos & Info about Heraklion airport