Fly to Santorini

The Santorini National airport, situated at Thira, a part of Santorini, Greece, is also known as “zefyros”. This is both a military and a civil airport and is comparatively small in proportion when compared to other airports; therefore, it is able to serve only 6 civil planes at a time. The airport is also important because Santorini is a hot tourist destination in the whole of Europe, especially because of the volcanic calderas that exist here; therefore, in order to connect international and national tourists to other Greek islands and to the rest of the world, this airport was needed. Besides serving the tourists this is strategically a very important military base for Greece. The IATA code for Santorini National Airport is JTR. Transportation to and from the airport can be done using the airport shuttle service offered here, which is very convenient for the international passenger. Cheap airfare and travel discounts are on offer during the summer, when the airlines want to fly the maximum number of tourists to meet their sales targets and to cash in on the tourist influx during these peak seasons. Discount flights are offered by most well know domestic and International airlines, such as Aegean and Olympic Air, which offer un matched services to local destinations like Athens, Thessaloniki and Rhodes. Flights to Thessaloniki and Rhodes are seasonal. Aegean air also offers flights to Rome and Milan. Many international flights operate from this airport and almost all offer discount flights. Most popular flights include ThomsonFly, Thomas Cook, First Choice air and XLAirways, which offer services to Manchester, London, Dublin, Cork and Newcastle. XLAirways offers the best service to UK. Scandinavian Airlines offers services to other European locations like Oslo, Stockholm and Copehagen. Services to cities like Milan, Amsterdam, Rome, Frankfurt and Berlin are offered by many revered brands of Europe, like Berlin Air, Condor airlines, Euro air and Lauda.