Greece is a tourist paradise with lots of sunshine and a good collection of picturesque islands. Most of the people coming to Greece each year choose to avail the plane as their medium of transport. There are 15 international Airports in Greece. The international airports are present in the mainland as well as on some Greek islands. The Greek Islands and the mainland airports have no direct connection to the international airports around the world. One has to take a connecting flight at the airport of Athens.
Traveling to Greece is very comfortable to the tourists visiting the country. There are 82 Airports in Greece. 7 of these are paved runways and 15 are unpaved runways. There are 8 heliports. The Atherns-Elefherios Venizelos International Airport is the widely traveled airport in Greece with flights t oEurope and the American destinations. The Corfu Island International Airport is a busy airport with three flights each day. The Rhodes International Airport is situated on the norther end of Rhodes Island, which though is small gets a lots of travelers in the summer months.Anothe popular airport is kefalonia which handles around 400,000 domestic passengers each year.
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