Airport codes
SKG
Location Address
THESSALONIKI AIRPORT “MACEDONIA”
P.O.BOX 22605
GR-55103 KALAMARIA
THESSALONIKI
Access
The airport is directly connected with the city's southeast
major road arteries and the ??67, (the Thessaloniki-Chalkidiki
motorway),
offering direct access via the Thessaloniki Ring to the A1/E75
and A2/E90 motorways; making transportation to and from Macedonia
International Airport relatively easy.
A total of 2,285 parking spaces for cars exist at the front
of the terminal building and taxis are available at the designated
taxi waiting area, located outside the arrivals exit.
Airport Overview
Thessaloniki Airport, otherwise known as Macedonia
Airport, is located 12 Km south of Thessaloniki, on the Aegean
coast of mainland northern Greece
The airport is the second largest in Greece.
It opened in 1930 and is serving almost 4 million passengers
annually. It is the main airport of Northern Greece and serves
the city of Thessaloniki
(the second-largest city in Greece), the popular tourist destination
of Chalkidiki and the surrounding cities of the region.
Contacts
Telephone
PHONE NO: +30 2310 - 985000, 473212, 473312, 985177, 985188
Fax
+30 2310 - 475555
Email
kacmtl@otenet.gr
Web
Airport Information
Airlines
Airlines providing domestic flights into and out of Thessaloniki
Airport are Olympic Airways, Aegean Airways and Sky Express.
There are also domestic flights to and from the
islands of Corfu, Santorini,Kos and Rhodes, and of course
to the major airports of Athens and Heraklion.
Thessaloniki Airport also hosts charter flights from many
European countries, mainly the UK, Germany, Italy, and Russia.
Thessaloniki is host to a vast number of international
airlines serving numerous destinations.
However .... the majority of these are seasonal charters.
Therefore if you are travelling out of season you may have
to consider travelling from an alternative airport or flying
into Greece to a major hub like Athens and
then taking an internal flight.
Olympic, Aegean Airlines and Sky Express offer the majority
of internal flights.
Airlines Destinations
Aegean Airlines Athens, Chania, Corfu, Düsseldorf,
Frankfurt, Heraklion, Kalamata, Larnaca, Moscow-Domodedovo,
Munich, Mytilene, Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Rhodes, Samos, Stuttgart
Seasonal: Kos, Mykonos, Santorini
Air Berlin Stuttgart
Seasonal: Berlin-Tegel, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Erfurt,
Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hannover, Munich [resumes, Nuremberg,
Zürich
Air Moldova Charter seasonal: Chinau
Alitalia Rome-Fiumicino
Austrian Airlines Vienna
Austrian operated by Tyrolean Airways Seasonal: Vienna
Astra Airlines Chios
British Airways London-Gatwick
Cimber Sterling Seasonal:Copenhagen
Cyprus Airways Larnaca, Paphos
EasyJet Basel-Mulhouse, Berlin-Schönefeld, Dortmund,
London-Gatwick, Milan-Malpensa
Seasonal: Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Germania Seasonal: Munich, Nuremberg
Germanwings Cologne/Bonn, Stuttgart
Jat Airways Belgrade
Jetairfly Seasonal: Brussels
Malév Hungarian Airlines Budapest
Olympic Air Athens, Chania, Heraklion, Mytilene, Rhodes
Rossiya Seasonal: St Petersburg
Ryanair Brussels-South Charleroi, Hahn, London-Stansted, Milan-Orio
al Serio, Oslo-Rygge, Rome-Ciampino, Stockholm-Skavsta
Sky Express (Greece) Heraklion, Ikaria, Kos, Lemnos, Mykonos,
Santorini, Skyros
Smart Wings Prague
Swiss International Air Lines Zürich
TAROM Bucharest-Henri Coanda
Thomas Cook Airlines Seasonal: London-Gatwick, Manchester
Thomson Airways Seasonal: East Midlands, London-Gatwick, London-Luton,
Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne
Transaero Airlines Seasonal:St Petersburg
Turkish Airlines Istanbul-Ataturk
VIM Airlines Moscow-Domodedovo
Airline Lounges
Macedonia airport operates two lounges:
Aegean Club Lounge, used by business class passengers of Aegean
Airline
CIP Lounge, used by the gold members of Olympic Air.
V.I.P. Phillipos Lounge in International departures hall.
Terminals
The airport’s terminal consists of three
floors. The ground floor serves arrivals only and is divided
into two sections:
international arrivals and domestic arrivals. The first floor
serves departures and also includes a shopping centre.
On this floor there are 34 check-in counters, waiting areas,
bars, stores that sell tobacco and magazines and various airlines’
offices.
The second floor houses two restaurants and several bars with
views to the runways.
The terminal building took its current form, when an additional
of 19,000m² were added to the western and eastern side
of the terminal building, completed in November 2000
and June 2003 respectively. The western extension included
the widening of the international departures area (new Extra-Schengen
area ), including new administration offices,
a new health station and the new station control of Olympic
Airlines. The eastern expansion included a new check-in hall,
new waiting halls and additional administrative
offices for airlines. Today the terminal has a total floor
area of 32,000m². Finally, during 2004-2006 the new motorway
junction was completed on the level of the departures
entrance of the Terminal and new parking spaces for cars,
buses and taxis were created.
Schengen
The Schengen Visa has made traveling between
its 15 European member countries much easier and less bureaucratic.
Traveling on a Schengen Visa means that the visa holder can
travel to any (or all) member countries using one single visa,
thus avoiding the hassle and expense of obtaining
individual visas for each country. This is particularly beneficial
for persons who wish to visit several European countries on
the same trip.
The Schengen countries are ..
Austria, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece,
Iceland, Italy, Luxemburg, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden
and The Netherlands (Holland)
There is one restaurant and six snack-bars at the airport.
Facilities
Banks/Bureau de change: Commercial Bank of
Greece: 12:00 to 18:00
National Bank of Greece: 12:00 to 18:00 in International Arrivals
Hall.
Bars: Available 24 hours.
Car parking: Available 24 hours.
Child facilities: Nursery/crèche available 24 hours
in Transit Hall and main hall on 1st floor.
Duty free: Available 24 hours.
Light refreshments: Available 24 hours.
OTE (National Telecom Organization) Available 24 hours on
1st floor.
Services: Telephone, fax, telegrams, phone cards, mobile phones.
Post Office: From 07:30 to 18:00 on 1st floor.
Pharmacy: From 08:00 to 24:00.
Restaurants: Available 24 hours.
Shops: Available 24 hours in Arrival and Departure Halls,
news agency,
souvenirs, alcohol, confectionery, flowers, art, books, tobacco,
leather good, toys, gifts and travel accessories.
Tourist Information: Tel: +30 2310 471170, 07.30 - 24.00.
Restrooms / Toilets
There are a large number of high standard
toilet facilities throughout the terminal.
Baby changing facilities are available.
Disabled facilities / Medical Facilities
Disabled facilities: Toilets, telephones, ramps.
First Aid/Medical: Infirmary 07:30 - 15:00.
Business facilities
There are 2 business class lounges in the
airport: Filippos and Aristoteles lounges.
These lounges are not available for domestic flight passengers.
There is also a VIP lounge under the name "Alexandros"
for VIP travellers.
Baggage
LEFT LUGGAGE:
Left luggage available 24 hours.
PHONE NO: +30 2310 - 985000, 473212, 473312, 985177, 985188
FAX NO: +30 2310 - 475555
Shops and restaurants
Inside the airport there are two restaurants,
four coffee-bars and a tobacco store. Furthermore, except
from the Duty Free shop,
there are stores selling traditional products, jewellery,
accessories and clothes. Passengers also can utilize a luggage
secure-wrapping service and luggage lockers.
Post office and automated teller machines are available on
the passengers’ departure area. There is also an office
of the Greek National Tourism Organisation.
EverestOlympicCatering
everestolympic is located in the departures
terminal (1st floor) and 4th floor restaurant.
Opened from 06.00 a.m to 23.00 p.m
Country Information
Thessaloniki has given Greece some of its
greatest musicians, artists, poets and thinkers. It has some
of the most beautiful beaches and has some of the finest hotels
and best restaurants in northern Greece.
It is the capital of the region of Central Macedonia, and
is, at about a million inhabitants, the second largest city
in the country.
More importantly, it is a city with a continuous 3,000 year
history, preserving relics of its Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman
past and of its formerly dominant Jewish population.
Its Byzantine churches, in particular, are included in UNESCO's
World Heritage list.
The northernmost Byzantine walls of the city and parts of
the western walls are still standing, as is the city's symbol
- the White Tower, one of the 16th c. AD fortified towers
- which
is the only surviving tower on the seafront. The rest of the
walls are in the picturesque Upper Town which offers a spectacular
view over the bay, especially in the late afternoon.
Take a walk along the enormous seafront promenade (about 12
km altogether). See the the Roman Forum excavations.
Visit the upper town for its traditional old houses, small
cobbled streets, Byzantine citadel, the Eptapyrgion fort.
The very lively and youth-oriented international film festival
is held in November, the International Trade Fair in September.
On no account should you miss the Byzantine churches built
between the 5th and 14th century ACE, such as Agios Demetrios,
(7th c. ACE) and Agia Sophia (Holy Wisdome, 9th c. ACE),
and many lovely smaller ones in the upper town (St Nicolaos
Orfanos is particularly worth a look for its frescoes), which
are on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
One of them, the Rotunda, started life as a Roman temple of
Zeus, built by ceasar Galerius, and is almost as old as the
Pantheon in Rome.
Next to the Rotunda, see the Arch of Triumph of Galerius and
the ruins of his palace.
The Agia Sofia churchThe city is also known as "the mother
of Israel", due to the once flourishing jewish community
here, which existed from the Roman period and grew
after the Ottoman Empire took in the refugees from Spain ("Sephardis),
until World War II when most of the city's Jews were transported
to Auschwitz, never to return.
However, there are still two Synagogues, and you can see the
Jewish Museum.
Also interesting are the Turkish public baths Bey Hamam, the
Bezesteni (Ottoman closed market for jewellery and precious
materials) the Alatza Imaret (Ottoman poorhouse)
and Hamza Bey Camii (both restored and used for exhibitions).
The traditional central food market, with hundreds of stalls
selling meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, cheap clothes and shoes,
flowers, herbs and spices,
between Aristotele Square and Venizelou street.
Aristotelous Square-the biggest of the city-and the promenade
with its cafes and restaurants
Speed Limits
Many country roads have posted speed limits of 50 kilometers
per hour (kph) which is about 30 miles per hour (mph).
On larger roads the speed limit might be 70 On four lane highways
the speed limit is usually 100 kph and on the super highways
(the National Road)
the speed limit is 120 kph (75 mph).
Side of the road
Drive on the right hand side of the road
Alcohol mg/ml
0.5 mg per ml
Time zone:
GMT + 2 (GMT + 3 from the last Sunday in March to the last
Sunday in October)
