Airport Name and ICAO/IATA Code
Heraklion International Airport (ICAO: LGIR / IATA: HER)
Location (City, Country)
Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Airport Type & Size
Heraklion Airport is an airport on the Island of Crete in Greece. This airport serves over 10 million passengers annually. This airport can handle a small A-class aircraft like a Cessna 206 to an E-class plane like an Airbus A330-900.
Main terminal stands -
East shared stands T1-5 handle 3 D-E or 5 A-C Stands T6-7 handles A-C
Main stands outside the terminal - 10 A-C and 3 shared A-D
West side stands - 5 stands handles A-C
Runway 09/27 - 2,700 Metres / 8,900 Feet
Runway 12/30 - 1,560 Metres / 5,100 Feet
Why should this airport be added to World of Airports?
This airport should be added to the game World of Airports because it would be an ideal place for connections between Asia, the Middle East and Europe. This airport would be a great island location between Africa and Europe if any African airports get added for future player-to-player connections.
Major Airlines & Routes
Major Airlines =
- Discover Airlines
- Aegean Airlines
- Sky Express
- Eurowings
- Transavia
- Easyjet
- Jet2
- Volotea
- Tui-Fly
- Condor
- Fly4 Airlines
- Edelweiss Airlines
- Heston Airlines
- Corendon Airlines
- Greece Air Force
- Marabu Airlines
- SpiceJet
- WizzAir
- Skyup Airlines
- LEAV Aviation
- Avion Express
- Olympic Air
- Airhub Airlines
- Bluebird Airways
- Brussels Airlines
- Freebird Airlines
- Ryanair
- AirBaltic
- Sundor Airlines
- SundAir
Major Routes =
- Larnaca LCA
- Haifa HFA
- Tel Aviv Ben Gurion TLV
- Cairo Capital CAI
- Yervan Zvartnots EVN
- Chania CHQ
- Rhodes RHO
- Kos Island KGS
- Izmir Adnan Menderes ADB
- Mytilene MJT
- Istanbul IST
- Santorini Thira National JTR
- Naxos Island JNX
- Mykonos Island JMK
- Athens Eleftherios Venizelos ATH
- Kalamata KLX
- Thessalonika SKG
- Tirana TIA
- Tivat TIV
- Malta Luqa MLA
- Catania Fontanarossa CTA
- Rome Leonardo da
Vinci Fiumicino FCO- Vilnius VNO
- Riga RIX
- Tallinn Lennart Meri TLL
- Helsinki Vantaa HEL
- Stockholm Arlanda ARN
- Oslo Gardermoen OSL
- Gothenburg Landvetter GOT
- Billund BLL
- Copenhagen CPH
- Malmo MMX
- Exeter EXT
- Bournemouth BOH
- Bristol BRS
- Cardiff CWL
- London Gatwick LGW
- London Heathrow LHR
- London Luton LTN
- London Stansted STN
- Norwich NWI
- Birmingham BHX
- Nottingham East Midlands EMA
- Liverpool John Lennon LPL
- Manchester MAN
- Leeds Bradford LBA
- Newcastle NCL
- Edinburgh EDI
- Glasgow GLA
- Belfast BFS
- Dublin DUB
- Keflavik KEF
- Chisinau RMO
- Iasi IAS
- Bucharest Henri Coanda OTP
- Brasov GHV
- Sibiu SBZ
- Cluj-Napoca CLJ
- Timisoara Traian Vuia TSR
- Graz GRZ
- Budapest Ferenc Liszt BUD
- Vienna VIE
- Bratislava M. R. Stefanik BTS
- Brno Turany BRQ
- Ostrava Leos Janacek OSR
- Katowice KTW
- Rzeszow Jasionka RZE
- Warsaw Chopin WAW
- Marseille Provence MRS
- Montpellier Méditerranée MPL
- Toulouse Blagnac TLS
- Bordeaux Merignac BOD
- Lyon Saint Exupery LYS
- Nantes Atlantique NTE
- Brest Bretagne BES
- Deauville Saint Gatien DOL
- Paris Orly ORY
- Paris Charles De Gaulle CDG
- Bologna Guglielmo Marconi BLQ
- Verona VRN
- Milan Bergamo Orio al Serio BGY
- Milan Malpensa MXP
- Geneva GVA
- Bern BRN
- Linz LNZ
- Salzburg SZG
- Innsbruck Kranebitten INN
- Munich MUC
- Nuremberg NUE
- Memmingen FMM
- Friedrichshafen FDH
- Stuttgart STR
- Zurich ZRH
- Basel Mulhouse - Freiburg Euro BSL
- Strasbourg SXB
- Karlsruhe / Baden-Baden FKB
- Saarbrücken SCN
- Frankfurt FRA
- Prague Vaclav Havel PRG
- Dresden DRS
- Leipzig Halle LEJ
- Berlin Brandenburger BER
- Luxembourg Findel LUX
- Lille LIL
- Brussels South Charleroi CRL
- Brussels BRU
- Cologne Bonn CGN
- Düsseldorf DUS
- Eindhoven EIN
- Rotterdam The Hague RTM
- Amsterdam Schiphol AMS
- Paderborn Lippstadt PAD
- Münster Osnabrück FMO
- Groningen Eelde GRQ
- Hannover Langenhagen HAJ
- Bremen BRE
- Hamburg HAM
Unique Features or Challenges
Some unique features could involve how the runway works during different wind directions and see the aircraft adjusting to strong crosswinds on this island. Some challenges could be high winds or heavy storms. This airport also offers no jetbridges so this airport relies on buses so long wait times on buses due to multple aircraft waiting on offloading or loading passengers.
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