Help identifying a Greek Island pls.!

[Rob1975]

Hi, trying to find which island this is...this Greek Island had (has?) a weekly flight from a Swedish/Danish/Northern European airline (Airbus) during summer only, and, I think no other jet traffic. Very short runway. Can anyone help? Cheers...

[SpringHeeledJack]

Might it be Skiathos, where they have a mini-St Maarten thing going on ?

[Chesty Morgan]

Well there's at least one other jet operator to Skiathos so it isn't that one.

[rog747]

Do you have a photo of the island?

Short runways include Skiathos and Mykonos, which are both very busy from May-Sept, and see many charter flights from the UK, Germany, Italy, Scandinavia and other European Countries.

Smaller Greek Islands and some others not so small, that have seasonal direct charter flights popular from Scandinavia are Karpathos, Sitia (Crete), Lemnos, Samos, Mytilene
Preveza (Lefkada), Kavala and Kalamata (Mainland)
Paros (very short runway) was served by Smartwings 737 (Czech airline).

[LGWAlan]

I think you may be thinking of Sitia on Crete that had 1/2 charter(s) a week from OSL/CPH (until EZY announced it for S24)? Either that or possibly Kithira which gets the odd charter from Prague (also Smartwings) - though I mistakenly thought this was a Dutch charter at one point. Either that, or as previously mentioned above Paros on Smartwings - which went back to PRG via JTR) Paros is now also served on charters by Avanti Air from Graz and Klagenfurt each once weekly with the PAS-Austria flights operating via ATH for refuel as from what I can gather there is no fuelling possible at PAS.

[barry lloyd]

Paros has been spotted by so-called influencers, probably because the existing runway is about to be lengthened, from the current 1400 to 1799m, thus allowing flights from northern Europe. In addition, it will have a new control tower, terminal building, and 'other facilities', presumably including fuel storage.
So it is about to be transformed from a sleepy little island, reached mainly by ferry, into another version of Mykonos, runway now 1903m, which underwent exactly the same transformation. International passengers in 2013 - 350,610. International passengers in 2023 - 1,127,580.

[oxenos]

The only good thing about Mykonos is that flying to it means you can get a ferry to any number of nearby unspoilt iaslands.

[Alsacienne]

Kalymnos?

[oxenos]

Kalymnos?
​​​​​​​I think you can rule out Kalymnos, with a 3700 foot runway, and also Leros, at 3100feet.

[rog747]

Some new ones for me - and thought I knew all the Holiday Charters to the Greek Islands LOL !
Everyday a school day hey.

Kythira Airport - Smartwings 737 for S24, and has seen Transavia 737, Jet Time 737, and DAT Danish Air Transport A320 and MD-87

Sitia Airport - Easyjet A320, and Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) A320N and 737 for S24, and has seen Condor A321, Small Planet A320

Chios Island Airport - has seen Transavia 737, Smartwings 737, Thomas Cook Belgium A320, Martinair A320, Lauda Air 737

Karpathos gets a lot of summer charter flights, but none from the UK.

Nice video of 737 flight to the New Paros Island Airport - famous for its extremely short runway of only 1400m.

https://youtu.be/zs9T4PX8d0I?si=gstPvEIxSNoHF6lK

Smartwings was the only charter airline to ever fly any larger jet to this tiny Greek island with a 737-700.
The Old Paros National Airport runway was only 850m which saw Tyrolean and Austrian Airways Dash 7 and Dash 8s charter flights operate there.