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Corfu Airport
- 26/10/2021
- 23:24
Ioannis Kapodistrias is the international Corfu Airport, located about 3 kilometers south of the homonymous city. Named in memory of the diplomat, the first head of state of independent Greece, it has two terminals and entered into operation in 1962. From the airport, the aerial view of Pontikonisi, the Vlacherna Monastery, and the hills of Kanoni is truly spectacular. during the take-off or landing procedure.
Corfu airport has all the basic services. Inside you will find refreshment points, bars, restaurants, duty-free. There are ATMs for withdrawing cash in the local currency. The WIFI line is available throughout the hotel: you just have to connect through your device to the “Fraport-Free” network and register from the welcome page.
For those who choose Athens as an intermediate stop, it takes just under an hour by plane to reach the island from the capital; Aegean Airlines, the Greek national airline, makes direct connections every day. The remaining direct connections take place exclusively during the summer period.
Photo ©, Dreizung
Here is a list of the main companies and direct connections* with Corfu Airport:
AUSTRIA: Vienna.
BELGIUM: Brussels, Ostend/Bruges.
BULGARIA: Sofia.
CZECH REP.: Brno, Ostrava, Prague.
DENMARK: Aarhus, Billund, Copenhagen.
ENGLAND: Birmingham, Bristol, Bournemouth, Doncaster/Sheffield, East Midlands, Exeter, Liverpool, London–Gatwick, London–Heathrow, London–Luton, London–Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne, Norwich.
FINLAND: Helsinki.
FRANCE: Beauvais, Bordeaux, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Paris–CDG, Paris–Orly, Strasbourg, Toulouse.
GERMANY: Berlin, Cologne/Bonn, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hannover, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, Leipzig/Halle, Memmingen, Münster/Osnabrück, Munich, Nuremberg, Stuttgart.
GREECE: Athens, Heraklion, Paphos, Preveza, Santorini, Thessaloniki.
HUNGARY: Budapest.
IRELAND: Belfast–International, Dublin.
ISRAEL: Tel Aviv.
ITALY: Bari, Bergamo, Bologna, Genoa, Milan–Malpensa, Naples, Palermo, Rome–Ciampino, Rome–Fiumicino, Treviso, Turin, Venice, Verona.
LITHUANIA: Vilnius.
LUXEMBOURG: Luxembourg.
NETHERLANDS: Amsterdam, Groningen, Maastricht/Aachen, Rotterdam/The Hague.
NORWAY: Oslo, Trondheim.
POLAND: Gdańsk, Katowice, Kraków, Lublin, Poznań, Warsaw–Chopin, Warsaw–Modlin, Weeze, Wrocław.
ROMANIA: Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca.
RUSSIA: Moscow–Domodedovo, Moscow–Sheremetyevo, Saint Petersburg.
SCOTLAND: Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow.
SLOVAKIA: Bratislava.
SLOVENIA: Ljubljana.
SPAIN: Barcelona, Madrid.
SWEDEN: Gothenburg, Stockholm–Arlanda.
SWITZERLAND: Geneva, Zürich.
UKRAINE: Kyiv–Boryspil, Odessa.
WALES: Cardiff
CORFU AIRPORT CONNECTIONS – CENTER
BUS
Those wishing to reach Corfu Town by public transport can use the blue bus line 15, whose stop is located in front of the Ioannis Kapodistrias airport exit. The complete journey to the port takes 15 minutes and the ticket costs €1.10 (€1.70 if purchased on board the vehicle). The bus stops in 10 minutes at San Rocco Square, the city center.
There are about 10 trips every day, from about 7:10 am to 9:30 pm.
CAR
Those who prefer to rent a car directly at the airport (recommended), simply have to follow Route 25 which leads to the city center. The journey is quite short.
The car is the best solution to reach the center and, above all, to move around the island.
TAXI
The taxi rank is located outside the airport, on the ARRIVALS side. The service operates 24/7. The journey to the center takes about 10 minutes. the cost is around € 10. It is always recommended to check in advance the rate applied by the taxi.
The vehicles are easily identifiable by the writing on the vehicle.
*The list is subject to change. All the links, updated, are available on the official website. Before leaving, it is recommended to inquire about the provisions and rules on COVID-19 applied in Greece, and on the mandatory nature of the Green Pass. Timetables and connections are subject to change.