Chania International Airport guide

Chania International Airport stands on the Akrotiri peninsula beside Souda Bay in western Crete, 14 km from the city of Chania. It shares its runway with a Hellenic Air Force base, and the single 3,347 m runway operates around the clock. The airport handled 3.95 million passengers and 26,502 aircraft movements in 2024.

Civil flights moved to the Souda military airfield in 1959, after earlier services from Maleme, and international flights began in 1974. The current terminal opened in 1996 with a design capacity of 1.35 million passengers a year, so summer traffic runs well above what the building was planned for. The airport carries the name of Ioannis Daskalogiannis, an 18th-century Cretan rebel leader.

Aegean Airlines and Ryanair are the main carriers, with scheduled and seasonal services from easyJet, Condor, Jet2, TUI Airways and Wizz Air. The airport belongs to the Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority and has been operated by Fraport Greece since 11 April 2017 under a 40-year concession. Buses run to Chania and Rethymno.