Athens Airport (disambiguation)

Last updated March 12, 2019

Athens Airport or Athens International Airport is the primary airport for Athens, Greece.

Athens Airport may also refer to:

Ellinikon International Airport, the old airport for Athens, Greece
Athens Ben Epps Airport in Athens, Georgia, United States
Athens Municipal Airport in Athens, Texas, United States

Ellinikon International Airport, sometimes spelled Hellinikon was the international airport of Athens, Greece for sixty years up until 28 March 2001, when it was replaced by the new Athens International Airport, Eleftherios Venizelos. The grounds of the airport are located 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) south of Athens, and just west of Glyfada. It was named after the village of Elliniko (Elleniko), now a suburb of Athens. The airport had an official capacity of 11 million passengers per year, but had served 13.5 million passengers during its last year of operations.

Athens Ben Epps Airport is a county-owned, public-use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) east of the central business district of Athens, a city in Clarke County, Georgia, United States. The airport is named after Ben T. Epps, the first aviator in the state of Georgia, who opened the airport in 1917. It is mostly used for general aviation, though it used to be served by one commercial airline with scheduled passenger service subsidized by the Essential Air Service program.

Athens Municipal Airport is a city-owned public-use UNICOM airport located three nautical miles southeast of the central business district of Athens, in Henderson County, Texas, United States. It is mostly used for general aviation.

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