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I. Kapodistrias Airport
Airport Directory » Greece » Kerkyra » I. Kapodistrias AirportCorfu International Airport, "Ioannis Kapodistrias" (Greek: Κρατικός Αερολιμένας Κέρκυρας, "Ιωάννης Καποδίστριας") or Ioannis Kapodistrias (Capodistrias) International Airport (IATA: CFU, ICAO: LGKR) is an airport on the Greek island of Corfu at Kerkyra, assisting both scheduled and charter voyages from European towns. Air traffic extrema during the summertime season, between April and October.
The Ioannis Kapodistrias International Airport, named after Ioannis Kapodistrias severalise Corfiot European diplomatist and 1st Governor of Greece, is turn up around three klicks southward of Corfu Town, one-half a kilometer northward of Pontikonisi. The go up and districting, in a northeasterly way, affords the winging riders a spectacular aerial position of Pontikonisi and Vlaherna Monastery as good as the hills of Kanoni as the landing track used for districting is really a few one C metres forth from these spectacular landmarks.
The airport offers domestic voyages with Olympic Airlines and Aegean Airlines, but the vast bulk of traffic in the summertime season is charter voyages for tourists.
The bulk of the charter traffic gets on Mondays and Fridays, for the interest of quiet during the balance of the hebdomad, since the airport is on the outskirts of Corfu Town itself, and to cooccur with the change-over solar days for vacation flat rents.
There is a cab rank and bus halt outside the depot linking the airport with all divisions of the island.
The airport was the destination for British Airtours Flight 28M, which crashed during part at Manchester Airport in the United Kingdom.
It is named after Ioannis Kapodistrias, who was 1st head of province of independent Greece.
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