Leros Airport

The airport of Leros located in Partheni. Olympic airlineshas every day flights to Leros from the Airport of Athens. The airport start operating in 1984 with the small airplanes of the Olympic airways Dornier, those airplanes where small and old today the airplanes that are used for the flights to Leros are of the type De Havilland Canada DHC-8 Dash 8 with place for 50 passengers, the journey is about 55 minutes from Athens, therefore it is ideal for a day trip from Athens during the weekend to visit Leros for a couple of days.

The Location indicator of the Leros airport is LRS its runway has a length of 1015 meters (less than one mile) this particular problem for many years has been discussed with many Greek authorities as Leros needs a longer runway so bigger airplanes will be able to land on the airport.

The extension of the Leros airport runway will boost the tourism of the island as it will become available to international flights and charter flights to Greece that are using bigger airplanes. Unfortunately it looks like that the authorities are unwilling to give the green light for this extension and therefore the tourism of Leros is depended by the charter flights that are landing to the airports of Kos, Rhodes or Samos. The airport of Leros is located about 4 kilometers from Platanos town and 2 from the tourist resort of Alinda. Transport to the airport is made by taxis and the fare is very reasonable as well as the prices in the hotels and other accommodation in Leros compare to the prices of other islands especially with those of the “expencive islands” like Santorini or Mykonos, flights to Santorini today cost a few euro as advertise by the Aegean Airlines  but one night in a Santorini hotel is probably more expensive then the air ticket, so we heard from several tourists that spend a few days of holidays in Santorini. That is not happens to Leros, taxi, accommodation and food all are cheaper in our island then many other Greek islands.