Mytilene International Airport guide

Mytilene International Airport serves Lesbos, the third-largest island in Greece, in the North Aegean. Its ICAO code is LGMT and it sits at an elevation of about 18 metres. The airport is named after the poet and Nobel laureate Odysseas Elytis, who had family roots on the island.

The airport began operating in 1948, and the first charter flight landed in 1980. The single asphalt runway, 14/32, is 2,406 metres long. Fraport Greece has run the airport since 2017 under a 40-year concession, and it is one of the 14 regional airports in that package. A new terminal opened in February 2020. It added about 7,185 square metres of floor space and roughly 30 percent more check-in positions than the building it replaced.

Traffic is mostly domestic. Aegean Airlines and Sky Express fly to Athens and Thessaloniki all year, and Sky Express also links Lesbos with Chios, Lemnos, Rhodes and Samos. Summer brings charter and scheduled flights from the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Belgium and Poland. In 2024, Greece accounted for about 386,000 of the airport's passengers, and the Netherlands and the United Kingdom followed with roughly 46,000 and 40,000. Passenger numbers have risen every year since 2021 and passed the 2019 level in 2023.