In 2025 Skiathos Airport (JSI) handled 639,242 passengers on 5,485 flights (landings and take-offs), up 6.4% on 2024. It was the busiest year since records began in 1986. August was the busiest month with 164,072 passengers, and 98.4% of the year’s passengers travelled between May and October. The United Kingdom was again the biggest market abroad with 41.3% of all passengers, ahead of Italy.

In 2024 Skiathos Airport (JSI) handled 600,786 passengers on 5,149 flights (landings and take-offs), up 8.7% on 2023. Only one year was busier since 1986. August was the busiest month with 149,683 passengers, and 98.0% of the year’s passengers travelled between May and October. The United Kingdom was again the biggest market abroad with 40.5% of all passengers, ahead of Italy.

In 2023 Skiathos Airport (JSI) handled 552,844 passengers on 5,159 flights (landings and take-offs), up 8.1% on 2022. Only two years were busier since 1986. August was the busiest month with 146,893 passengers, and 98.0% of the year’s passengers travelled between May and October. The United Kingdom was again the biggest market abroad with 35.6% of all passengers, ahead of Italy.

In 2022 Skiathos Airport (JSI) handled 511,611 passengers on 4,843 flights (landings and take-offs), up 148.3% on 2021. August was the busiest month with 141,066 passengers, and 98.3% of the year’s passengers travelled between May and October. The United Kingdom was again the biggest market abroad with 37.6% of all passengers, ahead of Italy.

In 2021 Skiathos Airport (JSI) handled 206,007 passengers on 2,972 flights (landings and take-offs), up 131.7% on 2020. August was the busiest month with 73,540 passengers, and 97.9% of the year’s passengers travelled between May and October. The United Kingdom was again the biggest market abroad with 23.2% of all passengers, ahead of Italy.

Travel restrictions eased during the summer: the first UK flights of the year only arrived in July.

In 2020 Skiathos Airport (JSI) handled 88,916 passengers on 1,600 flights (landings and take-offs), down 80.1% on 2019. It was the quietest year since records began in 1986. August was the busiest month with 37,059 passengers, and 95.8% of the year’s passengers travelled between May and October. The United Kingdom was again the biggest market abroad with 35.0% of all passengers, ahead of Germany.

COVID-19 closed the season before it began. Skiathos re-opened for international flights on 1 July 2020.

In 2019 Skiathos Airport (JSI) handled 446,219 passengers on 4,178 flights (landings and take-offs), up 1.9% on 2018. August was the busiest month with 119,175 passengers, and 98.2% of the year’s passengers travelled between May and October. The United Kingdom was again the biggest market abroad with 34.8% of all passengers, ahead of Italy.

The season ended early for many visitors: Thomas Cook stopped trading on 23 September 2019 and Adria Airways suspended its flights a day later.

Notes for summer timetable:
(The text below was written before March 1, 2020. With RED TEXT are additional notes after Covid-19). At the bottom of current page recent news, reschedules ans cancellations for summer 2020 timetable at Skiathos.

Bluebird Airlines flights between Skiathos and Tel-Aviv may change on Friday, to late evening.
It is not clear yet if TUS and Bluebird will fly from Tel-Aviv or it is the same tour operator. According to information provided by the end of November, TUS Air was supposed to use Boeing 737-800 on Tel Aviv-Skiathos route. Most probable, we expect to have TUS Air Fokker 70 on route Tel Aviv-Skiathos twice a week.

Still, we may see changes on TUS Air flights since the rebranding of the airline is not yet finalized. Initial plan was to rebrand to Air Elegance, but that is no longer valid. According to latest info, the airline will be rebranded with a new name and due to lack of airplanes, they may use Sukhoi Superjets.

Laudamotion flights will be operated by Ryanair Boeing 737-800 aircraft. The initial request for Skiathos flights was 1st of April to 24th of October 2020, but April and October were on separate request. Initially, sales started for April and October, but very soon they disappeared from the system.

Extra Austrian airlines flight from Graz on Sunday, will be replacing the gap of Astra Airlines flights. The Greek carrier was supposed to operate every Sunday the route Skiathos-Klagenfurt-Graz-Skiathos with 112-seater BAE-146 from 31st of May to 4th of October 2020. Unfortunately, Astra Airlines ceased operations and the route was replaced by 76-seater Dash 8Q400 between 31st of May and 27th of September 2020.

During the end of October till early November, we saw a lot of news for summer 2020 routes at Skiathos. It is very hard to provide accurate information from November of a year, to May of the next one. After Thomas Cook collapse, that kind of information became hard to be accurate. Calendar is showing early March and flights are not finalized yet! The results out of this:

Transavia France will not operate flights to Skiathos for summer 2020

Easyjet will not operate flights to Skiathos for summer 2020.

The summer season of 2020 will be a milestone of a transition from charter carriers, to low-cost airlines era. Few airlines, such Easyjet for example, didn’t take the risk to make an expansion based on Thomas Cook gap. End of the 2020 season will be very interesting, especially for a destination such as Skiathos. We will see if Thomas Cook gap from UK could be recovered in just one or two seasons.
From our experience, it is impossible to recover 100% of Thomas Cook loss in less than 7-8 years. That experience came out of Excel Airways collapse back in 2008 (details can be found on article of the Greek civil aviation magazine “REMOVE BEFORE FLIGHT” in Greek language).

Here is a comparison of UK traffic between (actual) summer 2019 flights and (upcoming) summer 2020 flights

After mid March 2020 aviation industry changed a lot. We are not talking for a “negative effect” for Skiathos traffic. We are talking about worldwide collapse of air transport…
We expect that till the end of March, it will be very unlike to see any passenger airplane in flight, at least in Europe. Most of the touristic facilities will stay closed till the end of April anyway. But even if they start to operate by early May or even June (we doubt it…) it looks very unlike to find a “survived” airline to visit our island!

Lets talk about airlines related with our small airport in Skiathos.

1.0 Condor already got an illegal government loan in October to survive (from now on state financial support will be legal) through the winter 2019-2020. How will they survive now? How would an investor fund an airline like this during such a crisis?

1.1 Aegean Airlines was supposed to participate to Croatia Airlines privatization and together to cover the missing gap of Adria Airways in Slovenia. Flight Ljubljana-Chios-Skiathos was possible to operate for summer 2020 or 2021 under this scenario.

1.2 Ryanair was supposed to operate Laudamotion flight Vienna-Skiathos for 2020. On 16 March 2020 Ryanair announced that is planning to ground even ALL fleet till further notice (details here). However the press release was removed one day later. But if you read the press release you will understand the financial impact on an airline. There is no information if the flight will operated nornaly or not, since effective 17 March 2020 Ryanair (incuding Laudamotion) is offering refunding of booking cancellation to all passengers.

1.3 By November 1st 2019, with the initial request of flights for the summer 2020, we noticed a huge expansion of TUI in Skiathos. It was very hard to believe that TUI would successfully operate that schedule (available here). Thomas Cook gap has nothing to do with new destinations as Doncaster and Exeter,for Skiathos. Thomas Cook took over Monarch a couple of years ago, and in 2019 the airplanes were still carrying basic Monarch liveries. Thomas Cook ceased operations,before completing the repaint of Monarch aircraft! To be more specific, last flight of Thomas Cook at Skiathos operated by an ex Monarch painted aircraft as reported here. So after Thomas Cook collapse,we see TUI stepping on the same road! So,here is the result:

TUI Group live market analysis (You can check it in real time here)

1.4 SAS first flight is supposed to land in Skiathos by 9 May 2020. No SAS flight is expected before 1 June 2020 (by now)

Unfortunately we expect to see much more traffic loss day by day …

Even Covid-19 problem ends for i.e. on April 1, 2020, the airline industry requires a lot of time to resume operations back to normal.  So much time that current summer season in Skiathos is almost lost.

Always airlines’ fleets can be grounded in a minute but unfortunately the opposite is not that fast…

Many believe that “Covid-19” will cause that impact to several airlines. The truth is that “Covid-19” accelerates the time by 1-2 years…

23 March 2020: Finnair announced cancellation of Skiathos flights for summer 2020 – Finnair schedule was for 11 flights from Helsinki from 28 May to 6 August with total 3.168 seats

24 March 2020: Ryanair (and Laudamotion) announced that the fleet will remain grounded till end of May 2020

In a few days we will release a similar analysis for summer 2020, since there are many question marks for the future of Skiathos traffic. The European airline market is changing a lot…

During the above period, the airport served 416.711 passengers, 368.609 with international flights and 48.102* with domestic flights. 

The traffic of Skiathos was not affected by the collapse of few airlines which took place after the end of August.  Adria Airways, Thomas Cook UK and Thomas Cook Scandinavia operated at Skiathos airport, but their collapse the last week of the month, noticed a minor effect on traffic figures. This is because Thomas Cook Scandinavia completed the schedule charter flights just a week before the collapse. Something similar happened with Adria Airways (details will follow below).

Thomas Cook flights at Skiathos were affected for two weeks (14 days). Initially planned to complete summer flights by October 6th,the same day “repatriation” flights completed.

Here is a list with Skiathos Thomas Cook flights affected:

Originally Thomas Cook UK planned 97.680 seats for summer 2019 (compared with 99.440 in summer 2018). Minus 8.800 from the above plus the repatriation outbound flights, gives an actual seats number of 92.646 units, means 5.034 seats. The estimated actual loss in passengers out of this number is 2.500-2.700 units, according to the low load factors during that period.

A list of Thomas Cook repatriation flights can be found HERE.

Traffic from Romania was increased by a third Tarom flight every Saturday, adding one more destination to Skiathos network, Timisoara. Available seats increased from 8.160 in 2018 to 11.520 in 2019.

Passengers figures generally in 2019 seems to be reduced than 2018. The airline which kept the figures on positive value was Volotea. It was the airline with the biggest growth rate in Skiathos for 2019 but possibly and for the airport recent history. Volotea offered 34.000 seats in summer 2018. The summer of 2019 the airline increased that number by 20.05%, or by 6.819 to 40.819 seats! The main reason of the increased figures was the replacement on 125-seats Boeing 717 by 156-seat Airbus A319 on many flights of Volotea this summer.

ROUTE MAPS & DESTINATIONS DISTANCES (in nautical miles, sort by longest distance to sorter)

*Domestic figures based of 886 operated commercial flights by regular airlines (Olympic Air, Sky Express). A number of approximately 100 flights of light private planes (2 or 4 seated and similar capacity helicopters) are not included.

In 2018 Skiathos Airport (JSI) handled 437,916 passengers on 4,158 flights (landings and take-offs), up 3.3% on 2017. August was the busiest month with 119,180 passengers, and 98.3% of the year’s passengers travelled between May and October. The United Kingdom was again the biggest market abroad with 37.8% of all passengers, ahead of Italy.