Post by graham on Aug 14, 2022 8:31:23 GMT
We went over to see a couple of dear friends who we hadn't seen since 2009 and stayed in the city centre close to Hadrian's Arch for three nights before taking the bus to meet up with Caroline's parents who have lived in Crete since 2005, but had taken a puddle jumper flight to Kalamata where we rendezvous'd with them and spent just the one night before returning to Athens.
Most of this log was read off as we taxiied into the terminal, Eleftherios Venizelos is a huge airport, which was constructed and completed well before time for the 2004 Olympics which Greece hosted and saw the closure of the claustrophic Ellinikon airport which sat on the coast to the south of the city, close to the beach suburb of Glyfada. Ellinikon was surrounded by residential areas, industrial estates, shopping centres and the sea and had nowhere else to expand into, much the same as Heraklion's international airport on Crete which will be replaced by a redevelopment of the Hellenic AF base at Kastelli.
14 Aug 2017 Athens Eleftherios Venizelos Monday
4122 Alenia C-27J 4122 Greek Air Force
9H-TJG Boeing 737NG 86JBDSF/W 29120 Corendon Air Europe
9V-OFI Boeing 787 8 37125 Scoot
A6-AEA Airbus A321 231SL 5836 Etihad Airways
OK-TSQ Boeing 737NG 8KN/W 31765 SmartWings
PH-HZV Boeing 737NG 8K2/W 30650 Transavia
SX-BKZ Swearingen Metro III AC-694B Mediterranean Air Freight
SX-BNN Swearingen Metro III BC-771B Epsilon Aviation
SX-OBE Bombardier DHC-8 402 NG 4314 Olympic Air
SX-OBF Bombardier DHC-8 402 NG 4318 Olympic Air
SX-ONE ATR 72 500 553 Sky Express Greece
TC-ARP Boeing 737NG 82R/W 40727 Pegasus Airlines
TC-JHF Boeing 737NG 8F2/W 35745 Turkish Airlines
UR-PSV Boeing 737NG 8AS/W 35017 Ukraine International Airlines
VP-BKQ Airbus A321 211SL 7801 Aeroflot Russian Airlines
YL-BBX Boeing 737 36Q/W 30334 Air Baltic
Most of this log was read off as we taxiied into the terminal, Eleftherios Venizelos is a huge airport, which was constructed and completed well before time for the 2004 Olympics which Greece hosted and saw the closure of the claustrophic Ellinikon airport which sat on the coast to the south of the city, close to the beach suburb of Glyfada. Ellinikon was surrounded by residential areas, industrial estates, shopping centres and the sea and had nowhere else to expand into, much the same as Heraklion's international airport on Crete which will be replaced by a redevelopment of the Hellenic AF base at Kastelli.
14 Aug 2017 Athens Eleftherios Venizelos Monday
4122 Alenia C-27J 4122 Greek Air Force
9H-TJG Boeing 737NG 86JBDSF/W 29120 Corendon Air Europe
9V-OFI Boeing 787 8 37125 Scoot
A6-AEA Airbus A321 231SL 5836 Etihad Airways
OK-TSQ Boeing 737NG 8KN/W 31765 SmartWings
PH-HZV Boeing 737NG 8K2/W 30650 Transavia
SX-BKZ Swearingen Metro III AC-694B Mediterranean Air Freight
SX-BNN Swearingen Metro III BC-771B Epsilon Aviation
SX-OBE Bombardier DHC-8 402 NG 4314 Olympic Air
SX-OBF Bombardier DHC-8 402 NG 4318 Olympic Air
SX-ONE ATR 72 500 553 Sky Express Greece
TC-ARP Boeing 737NG 82R/W 40727 Pegasus Airlines
TC-JHF Boeing 737NG 8F2/W 35745 Turkish Airlines
UR-PSV Boeing 737NG 8AS/W 35017 Ukraine International Airlines
VP-BKQ Airbus A321 211SL 7801 Aeroflot Russian Airlines
YL-BBX Boeing 737 36Q/W 30334 Air Baltic