Guide to Chios Airport

Chios Airport “Omiros” (JKH), named after Homer, whom the island claims as its own, lies on the coast at Kontari just 4 km south of Chios Town, with the Turkish shore visible across the strait. It is a domestic airport first: Aegean, Olympic and Sky Express fly to Athens and Thessaloniki all year for an island of 50,000 people, and the summer adds a modest layer of Dutch, German and Scandinavian charters and Greek diaspora traffic.

The terminal is small and run by the Greek civil aviation authority rather than Fraport: one hall, arrivals and departures together, a car park in front and the city bus stop on the road outside. Chios Town, the port and the first beaches at Karfas are ten minutes away; the mastic villages of the south and the north-coast villages are an hour.