| Chania airport in Greece is a joint civil - military airport
serving Chania city, second in size in Crete island and perhaps its
most traditional and picturesque. Souda Hellenic Air Force base and a
NATO base are operating full time from the airport
making it one of Greece's busiest in military traffic of all types. "Ioannis
Daskalogiannis" civil airport on the north western part serves all
civilian flights which, especially during the summer time, bring the
apron capacity up to limits. The apron recently got expanded to the
East. Chania LGSA has only VOR DME approaches for runways 11 and 29
and a long runway with military standby runways on each side (the
taxiways). The airport is positioned on an elevated terrain peninsula
extending North from mainland Crete and to its North it has even
higher terrain rising steeply. Especially on the approach from the
East (for Rwy 29) you can observe the terrain rising steeply from sea
level up to almost the runway threshold. Chania airport is often used
as a diversion for near by Iraklion LGIR when the North strong gusty
crosswinds forbid landing at Iraklion and then the passengers are
transferred by bus to their final destination. |
