Starting next Monday, Heraklion Nikos Kazantzakis Airport will return to normal operations, as the repainting of the main runway, which caused changes to the flight schedule, has been completed.

Giorgos Pliakas, head of Heraklion airport, told ERT that the work on applying modified asphalt on the main runway has been completed. This will be followed by clean-up and delimitation work and the project will be put into operation on Sunday to allow the airport to return to its normal operations from Monday.

On Wednesday the first tourists

The upgrade of the airport’s infrastructure was completed in record time, according to the airport chief, just 24 hours before the first arrival of tourists opening the tourist season this year. According to ertnews, this is an Easy Jet flight from Bristol, England, which will arrive next Wednesday, March 8, opening the veil of the tourist flow at Heraklion Airport.

According to Mr. Pliakas, this year arrivals at the airport “N. Kazantzakis”, will exceed last year’s, which were more than in 2019. In fact, he noted that there were no more free slots for July and August, “indicating” as an alternative to the first and last months the tourist season, which, according to him, is more suitable for northern Europeans who find it difficult to adapt to weather conditions and high temperatures prevailing on an island in the “heart” of summer.