Some regional airports will shut down briefly and gradually between November 2024 and February 2025 for runway upgrades, manager Fraport Greece announced on Wednesday, ANA reports.
All commercial and private flights will be suspended during the works, which will observe the following schedule, noted Fraport Greece, which manages 14 regional airports in all:
– Samos Airport (SMI), shutting down November 5, 2024 – November 24, 2024
– Mytilini Airport (MJT), shutting down for 24 hours every Tuesday (00:01 – 23:59) in November 15, 2024 – March 25, 2025
– Corfu Airport (CFU), November 18, 2024 – December 8, 2024 & January 13, 2025 – January 31, 2025
– Cephalonia Airport (EFL), November 25, 2024 – December 15, 2024
– Rhodes Airport (RHO), shutting down for 48 hours from Tuesday, 18:00 to Thursday, 17:59, in December 10, 2024 – January 31, 2025
– Santorini Airport (JTR), January 08, 2025 – January 23, 2025
– Kavala Airport (KVA), January 10, 2025 – January 30, 2025
– Mykonos Airport (JMK), January 25, 2025 – February 15, 2025 and
– Zakynthos Airport (ZTH), February 10, 2025 – to February 28, 2025.
Fraport Greece said that during the above periods, helicopters at all airports mentioned above will still carry out emergency services (airlifts for medical reasons, search & rescue missions, firefighting, humanitarian, state flights, and flights of national importance).
The company stressed that the projects comprise the third phase of upgrading regional airports, and acknowledge the inconvenience they may create to local communities. The projects will enhance safety and extensively upgrade runway strips and RESA (runway safety) areas at airports, Fraport said, underlining the complexity of the projects, which belong to large-scale projects it carries out in the framework of funding by the Recovery and Resilience Fund.
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