Athens airport is a regional megahub

Athens International Airport appears peculiarly well connected, astatine slightest astatine the determination level.

This is recorded successful the yearly Megahubs 2025 survey by OAG (Official Airline Guide), a formation information investigation company, where AIA ranks ninth among the astir connected airports successful the Europe, Middle East and Africa portion (EMEA). In fact, Greece’s largest airdrome gains 1 spot and ranks eighth successful terms of connectivity, when the ranking concerns Europe exclusively.

This is adjacent much encouraging if 1 considers that Rome’s Fiumicino Airport, which competes with Greece, didn’t adjacent negociate to participate the top 10 successful the EMEA region, while it was 10th astatine the European level. 

The study besides mentions Aegean Airlines, the main Greek carrier, which operates the largest stock of flights, with 39% of the total routes astatine Athens Airport carried retired by the Greek airline.

Given that Greece is called upon to vie with important European hubs, the representation of the remaining large airports is of peculiar interest. At the top of the astir connected airports successful Europe is London Heathrow, with British Airways holding 51% of each flights. Istanbul Airport follows successful 2nd place, where Turkish Airlines astir monopolizes the formation docket with a percent of 79%. The top three is completed by Amsterdam, with KLM-Royal Dutch Airlines operating 55% of the total routes. Fourth spot is occupied by Frankfurt Airport, dominated by Lufthansa (56%), and the 5th is Paris, where 56% of flights are Air France. 

London, Istanbul and Amsterdam besides inhabit the top three spots successful the planetary table with the 50 astir connected airports, which Athens failed to enter. Istanbul recorded 1 of the largest rises successful the ranking, from eighth past year to 2nd this year, thanks to a 25% summation successful imaginable connections connected an yearly ground connected the busiest time of the year. This emergence confirms the gradual transformation of Istanbul into an important hub, connecting the East with Europe and America, but Athens is besides establishing itself arsenic a important determination hub, chiefly for flights to Europe and the Balkans.