Diagoras International Airport
Posted in the Connections
by the Editor
The Diagoras International Airport (IATA: RHO, ICAO: LGRP) is 15km distant from the city, at the southwest part of the island, close to the village of Paradissi. It is one of the busiest airports in Greece coming fourth in total passengers. The volume of the air traffic varies during the year. In the holiday season (May to October), you can expect regular daily flights to and from the main Greek airports and the neighboring islands of Karpathos, Kassos and Kastelorizo.
Starting from March 2007 the EU has set a stringent set of rules concerning the transport of hand luggage in the aircrafts. Each passenger may carry only one piece of hand luggage that does not exceed 55 x 40 x 20 cm of size. For details please consult your travel agent.
In addition, there are regular international connections with the major European cities, Israel and Egypt and a large number of chartered flights from all around the world. The island is reached by nearly all German, Italian and British aiports at least once a week during the peak period. A list of companies operating in Diagoras International Airport is listed below:
Aegean Airlines (Athens, Thessaloniki, Rome-Fiumicino)
Air Berlin (Berlin-Schönefeld, Berlin-Tegel, Dresden, Erfurt, Nuremberg, Rostock/Laage, Zurich)
Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
British Airways - operated by GB Airways (London-Gatwick)
Centralwings (Katowice, Poznan, Warsaw)
Condor Airlines (Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hanover, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Stuttgart)
Cyprus Airways (Heraklion, Larnaca)
Germanwings (Cologne/Bonn)
Hamburg International (Saarbrücken)
Luxair (Luxembourg)
Malev Hungarian Airlines (Budapest, Debrecen)
Martinair (Amsterdam)
Niki (Graz, Salzburg, Vienna)
Olympic Airlines (Athens, Thessaloniki, Karpathos, Kasos, Kastelorizo, Kos, Leros, Astypalaia, Samos, Chios, Mytilene, Heraklion, Santorini, Mykonos)
transavia.com (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Eindhoven, Maastricht, Groningen, Twente)
TUIfly (Berlin-Tegel, Bremen, Cologne/Bonn, Leipzig/Halle, Nuremberg, Stuttgart, Zweibrücken)
A public bus service connects the airport to the city.
