Originally Posted by Jimmy The Big Greek
No, Donners. The old airport in athens (helliniko) is closed. They are going to build houses there.
Houses? <cough> Surely "largest urban park in Europe"
Using Ellinikon would probably be the first instance where a "Ryanairport" was closer to the city it served than the principal airport
I'd have thought Tanagra was more likely
Originally Posted by Jimmy The Big Greek
Good base would be Heraklion in Creete.
Greece
is crying out for for more competition (be it an LCC or otherwise): On domestic routes, OA and A3 are expensive and their flights are packed out . As Donners says, driving between Greece's two principal cities takes ages - even longer if you chance the train - so there is a significant domestic market to be exploited, not to mention the potential for expansion into the Balkans.
HER would be a good choice and would seem to offer more potential than Thessaloniki as a base. Given SKG's reputation for foggy wx that might not be a match made in heaven anyway. On the face of it, ATH would seem to be too expensive for an LCC, but of late the airport has been looking rather empty (is the satellite ever used anymore?) and AIA might welcome a low cost entrant...