Athens Airport
Athens Venizelos Airport defined as international by the Greek civil aviation authorities HCAA,is a modern Greek airport located about 40 kilometres east of the capital Athens, in the municipality of Spata-Artemida, in the Attica region. It replaces the old Ellinikon airport since 2001. The facility is named after Eleuterio Venizelos, a distinguished politician of modern Greece.
Athens airport has two asphalt runways, 4 000 and 3 800 metres long, with RWY 3R/21L and 3L/21R orientation, the altitude is 94 metres and it is open to commercial traffic 24 hours a day. Enhanced for the 2004 Olympics, it is now accessible by motorway and rail.
In 2005, 2006 and 2008 it was awarded the Skytrax prize as the best airport in southern Europe. In addition, after the relevant checks, the structure was declared suitable to accommodate the Airbus A380, but only Emirates flies to Athens with this aircraft as a stopover for transcontinental flights to New York-Newark.
Metro line 3 takes you to the centre of Athens and then, by changing at the Syntagma stop, and then transferring to line 1, to the port of Piraeus. The cost is about €10.00 , the time needed from the airport to the port is about 80 minutes, but the service is suspended at night and during the day a train leaves every half hour. The metro departure point is near exit no. 4 of the airport. The stop was opened in 2004 when line 3 was extended from the Doukissis Plakentias stop. With the Athens airport taxi Athens center is about 35 minutes.