Skiathos airport runway designators change
On Saturday March 2, 2019 the change of the runway designators of Skiathos airport took place. The change was made due to the shift of the magnetic north and the runway magnetic direction had become through the years 015°/195° and these values are reduced every year. Skiathos magnetic variation is 4° 03’ EAST (as of […]
New service by Cyprus Airways to Skiathos for 2019
Cyprus Airways will fill the gap of Cobalt for summer season 2019 between Larnaca and Skiathos. The flights to Skiathos will start by July 1, 2019 with frequency two flights per week (every Monday and Thursday) with Airbus A319. Skiathos as destination is part of Cyprus Airways expansion plan for summer 2019 in Greece. The […]
Skiathos Airport Traffic 2018
Few days before the release of draft schedules for 2019,we have completed the full analysis for year 2018. For one more year, we see a steady traffic growth in terms of passengers traffic on the island. This growth is of course a benefit for the island, but arises a question about the validity of the study […]
Snow at Skiathos once more
For one more winter there was a lot of snow at Skiathos Island. The airport covered with snow and few domestic flights from Athens cancelled. However cancellation reason was not the snow but the low cloud base coverage. Some shots from 11 January 2019 by Giorgos JSI Serris: Previous snow at the airport was 2017. […]
Last charter flight for 2018 season
Skiathos 26 October 2018 by Giorgos JSI Serris …And this was it. The last push-back for the season 2018 has passed into history. The Airbus A320 D-AICC of Condor,departed tonight to Munich as Condor 1605, closing one more Skiathos season. That was a record for last flight during last 10 years or more. All previous […]
Skiathos Airport traffic 2017: annual report
In 2017 Skiathos Airport (JSI) handled 424,106 passengers on 4,266 flights (landings and take-offs), up 4.9% on 2016. August was the busiest month with 112,268 passengers, and 98.4% of the year’s passengers travelled between May and October. The United Kingdom was the biggest market abroad with 37.8% of all passengers, ahead of Italy. Fraport Greece […]
Push back procedures started at Skiathos
Today, May 4, 2018 the first push-back took place at Skiathos airport by ground handler Swissport. The first push-back procedure performed on Arke Fly Boeing 737-800 (PH-TFB) operating flight TFL-288 from Skiathos to Kefalonia. The aircraft parked and pushed back from parking position no1. New towbars delivered!!! Later during same day a Thomas Cook Airbus […]
Summer season open at Skiathos Airport
Summer season for Skiathos started with the first landing of foreign charter airplane. Same as last year Thomas Cook from Manchester was the first flight in our island. Thomas Cook flight 1194 with Airbus A321 (G-TCDK) arrived from Manchester around 11:30 in the morning and flew back to Manchester after an hour. Fraport-Greece, the operator […]
New Parking Stands (markings) at Skiathos Airport
On April 15, 2018 paint works started on the new apron. The new apron marked with service roads for ground services equipment vehicle movements, with staging areas for GSE parking/ servicing and remote stands. The new apron is marked with four stands require push back to taxi out. The airport capacity will be now for […]
Flybe announces new route to Skiathos from Southampton Airport
Southampton Airport has today announced that it will be introducing a new route to Skiathos with its newest airline FlyLolo, starting July 2018. This will be the first time that Southampton Airport has offered a direct route to Greece. Flights will run from 3rd July until 2nd October 2018 and will be operated by Flybe […]