KGS
Kos International Airport "Ippokratis"
Kos International Airport "Ippokratis" (IATA: KGS, ICAO: LGKO) is a large airport in Kos Island, South Aegean, Greece. It has one runway, 2,390 m (7,841 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Fraport Greece. In 2025 it handled 3.2 million passengers.
Runways & airfield
Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap14/32148° / 328° · LIT
LENGTH2,390 m7,841 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt
Passengers per year
2014–20252.2M
2.2M
1.9M
2.3M
2.5M
2.6M
830K
1.6M
2.8M
3.0M
3.1M
3.2M
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Routes
76 destinations · 19 countriesYear-round12
JKLKalymnos AirportGreece · Sky Express (Greece)23 km14 miLRSLeros AirportGreece · Sky Express (Greece)51 km32 miJTYAstypalaia AirportGreece · Sky Express (Greece)68 km42 miRHORhodes International Airport "Diagoras"Greece · Sky Express (Greece)99 km62 miATHAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International AirportGreece · Sky Express (Greece), Aegean Airlines306 km190 miSKGThessaloniki Macedonia International AirportGreece · Aegean Airlines547 km340 miWAWWarsaw Chopin AirportPoland · LOT Polish Airlines1,775 km1,103 miWROCopernicus Wrocław AirportPoland · LOT Polish Airlines1,785 km1,109 miNUENuremberg AirportGermany · Marabu Airlines1,911 km1,187 miDRSDresden AirportGermany · Sundair1,912 km1,188 miLEJLeipzig/Halle AirportGermany · Marabu Airlines2,005 km1,246 miCPHCopenhagen Kastrup AirportDenmark · Scandinavian Airlines, Jet Time2,359 km1,466 miSeasonal62
HERHeraklion International Nikos Kazantzakis AirportGreece · Aegean Airlines236 km147 miTLVBen Gurion International AirportIsrael · Tus Airways, Bluebird Airways891 km554 miBRIBari Karol Wojtyła International AirportItaly · Ryanair1,014 km630 miNAPNaples International AirportItaly · easyJet1,197 km744 miZAGZagreb Franjo Tuđman International AirportCroatia · Ryanair1,353 km841 miFCORome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International AirportItaly · Ryanair1,391 km864 miGRZGraz AirportAustria · Eurowings1,485 km923 miBTSM. R. Štefánik AirportSlovakia · Smartwings1,499 km931 miVIEVienna International AirportAustria · Ryanair, Condor Flugdienst, Austrian Airlines1,523 km946 miVCEVenice Marco Polo AirportItaly · easyJet1,565 km972 miBLQBologna Guglielmo Marconi AirportItaly · Ryanair, Neos1,582 km983 miTSFTreviso AirportItaly · Ryanair1,584 km984 miOSRLeoš Janáček Airport OstravaCzechia · Smartwings1,606 km998 miPSAPisa International AirportItaly · Ryanair1,607 km999 miBRQBrno-Tuřany AirportCzechia · Smartwings1,610 km1,000 miLNZLinz-Hörsching AirportAustria · Eurowings1,650 km1,025 miVRNVerona Villafranca Valerio Catullo AirportItaly · Neos1,656 km1,029 miSZGSalzburg AirportAustria · Eurowings1,680 km1,044 miINNInnsbruck AirportAustria · Eurowings1,739 km1,081 miBGYIl Caravaggio International AirportItaly · Ryanair, Neos1,751 km1,088 miMUCMunich AirportGermany · Discover Airlines, Condor Flugdienst, TUI fly Deutschland1,789 km1,112 miPRGVáclav Havel Airport PragueCzechia · Smartwings1,801 km1,119 miMXPMilan Malpensa International AirportItaly · Ryanair, easyJet, Neos1,817 km1,129 miNUENuremberg AirportGermany · Eurowings1,911 km1,187 miZRHZürich AirportSwitzerland · Chair Airlines, Condor Flugdienst, Edelweiss Air1,927 km1,197 miSTRStuttgart AirportGermany · Eurowings, Condor Flugdienst, TUI fly Deutschland1,961 km1,219 miBRNBern AirportSwitzerland · Helvetic Airways1,966 km1,222 miLEJLeipzig/Halle AirportGermany · Freebird Airlines2,005 km1,246 miBERBerlin Brandenburg AirportGermany · Eurowings, Ryanair, easyJet +12,031 km1,262 miFRAFrankfurt Main AirportGermany · Discover Airlines, Condor Flugdienst, TUI fly Deutschland2,088 km1,297 miPADPaderborn Lippstadt AirportGermany · Freebird Airlines2,197 km1,365 miLUXLuxembourg-Findel International AirportLuxembourg · Luxair2,200 km1,367 miHAJHannover AirportGermany · TUI fly Deutschland2,209 km1,373 miCGNCologne Bonn AirportGermany · Leav Aviation, Freebird Airlines, Eurowings2,224 km1,382 miDUSDüsseldorf AirportGermany · Eurowings, Condor Flugdienst, TUI fly Deutschland2,274 km1,413 miHAMHamburg Helmut Schmidt AirportGermany · Eurowings, Condor Flugdienst2,289 km1,422 miNRNWeeze (Niederrhein) AirportGermany · Ryanair2,329 km1,447 miEINEindhoven AirportNetherlands · Transavia2,362 km1,468 miBRUBrussels AirportBelgium · Brussels Airlines, TUI fly Belgium2,380 km1,479 miORYParis-Orly AirportFrance · Transavia2,399 km1,491 miLILLille AirportFrance · ASL Airlines France2,444 km1,519 miRTMRotterdam The Hague AirportNetherlands · Transavia2,447 km1,520 miAMSAmsterdam Airport SchipholNetherlands · Transavia2,452 km1,524 miGOTGöteborg Landvetter AirportSweden · Sunclass Airlines2,563 km1,593 miHELHelsinki Vantaa AirportFinland · Sunclass Airlines, Finnair2,620 km1,628 miLGWLondon Gatwick AirportUnited Kingdom · Jet2.com, TUI Airways, easyJet +12,678 km1,664 miSTNLondon Stansted AirportUnited Kingdom · Jet2.com, TUI Airways, Ryanair2,690 km1,671 miLTNLondon Luton AirportUnited Kingdom · Jet2.com2,726 km1,694 miBOHBournemouth AirportUnited Kingdom · Jet2.com, TUI Airways2,767 km1,719 miEMAEast Midlands AirportUnited Kingdom · Jet2.com, TUI Airways2,833 km1,760 miBHXBirmingham AirportUnited Kingdom · Jet2.com, TUI Airways, easyJet2,839 km1,764 miBRSBristol AirportUnited Kingdom · Jet2.com, TUI Airways, easyJet2,849 km1,770 miEXTExeter International AirportUnited Kingdom · TUI Airways2,868 km1,782 miCWLCardiff International AirportUnited Kingdom · TUI Airways2,890 km1,796 miLBALeeds Bradford AirportUnited Kingdom · Jet2.com2,907 km1,806 miMANManchester AirportUnited Kingdom · Jet2.com, TUI Airways, easyJet2,916 km1,812 miLPLLiverpool John Lennon AirportUnited Kingdom · Jet2.com, easyJet2,949 km1,832 miNCLNewcastle International AirportUnited Kingdom · Jet2.com, TUI Airways2,973 km1,847 miEDIEdinburgh AirportUnited Kingdom · Jet2.com3,116 km1,936 miDUBDublin AirportIreland · Ryanair3,159 km1,963 miGLAGlasgow AirportUnited Kingdom · Jet2.com, easyJet3,170 km1,970 miBFSBelfast International AirportUnited Kingdom · TUI Airways3,210 km1,995 miSeasonal charter4
KTWKatowice Wojciech Korfanty International AirportPoland · Enter Air1,650 km1,025 miBSLEuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–FreiburgFrance · Enter Air2,001 km1,243 miFKBKarlsruhe Baden-Baden AirportGermany · Enter Air2,035 km1,264 miGDNGdańsk Lech Wałęsa AirportPoland · Enter Air2,063 km1,282 miMost destinationsRyanair 13Jet2.com 13TUI Airways 11easyJet 10Eurowings 10Condor Flugdienst 8
Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from KGS. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Kos International Airport” (revision of 23 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Records & rankings
Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · countryScale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record
Radio frequencies
4 channelsA/GIPPOKRATIS RDO563.700
APPAPP119.950
ATISATIS126.950
TWRIPPOKRATIS TWR121.050