Greek Airports Research Articles

Greek airports: Efficiency measurement and analysis of determinants

This paper presents a performance evaluation of the Greek airports considering their relative technical efficiencies and factors determining these determinants. The analysis shows the importance of seasonality in demand on the performance of the airports, and the effect of location, size and operating characteristics on their technical efficiency, signifying peculiarities of the Greek airport system.

Sizing of processing and holding air terminal facilities for charter passengers using simulation tools

Abstract Charter passengers represent a category of airport users that imposes uncommon operating conditions to airport terminal facilities, which, if not anticipated, may result in a low level of service. This is usually the case of airports serving areas of tourist attraction where growth in demand of charter flights has made them the dominant passenger flow. This paper presents a simulation model that enables the investigation of charter passenger effects on air terminal facilities and enables the estimation of the level of service offered. Some of the model’s features can be easily implemented by use of spreadsheets. The paper concludes with a critical assessment of the results arisen in the master plan of two Greek airports where the simulation model was implemented.

Simulation of airport terminal facilities in the greek airports of Kavala and Alexandroupolis

The airports of Kavala and Alexandroupolis serve a wide catchment area in Northern Greek periphery, offering air transport services to almost half a million habitants as well as to international tourists. The international passengers of Kavala airport are travelling mainly during the summer period with charter flights that impose high peaks in various subsystems of the airport terminal. The airport of Alexandroupolis mainly serves passengers of domestic flights that are usually accompanied by friends or relatives, leading to overcrowding of the corresponding waiting areas. The existence of the above passenger flows peculiarities, indicates the need for an appropriate design technique of the related airport terminal facilities. The scope of this paper is to describe such an approach, based on a simulation model that was used during the master plans of the above airports. The model simulates the flows of both departing and arriving passengers, distinguishing the intra and extra-Schengen flows so as to charge the various subsystems of the airport terminal accordingly, while emphasis was given in the investigation of the level of service offered in the departure lounges.