KVA

Kavala Alexander the Great International Airport

ICAO LGKV40.9133°N 24.6192°E6 m / 18 ftLarge airport
On the map

Kavala Alexander the Great International Airport (IATA: KVA, ICAO: LGKV) is a large airport in Kavala, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, Greece. It opened in 1981. It has one runway, 3,001 m (9,844 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Fraport Greece. In 2025 it handled 318 thousand passengers.

Timeline

2 events · 1981–2022
1981
OpenedKavala Alexander the Great International Airport opens.
16 JUL 2022
DisasterMeridian Flight 3032.8 killed

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
05/23055° / 235° · LIT
LENGTH3,001 m9,844 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2014–2025
248K
263K
275K
335K
399K
318K
75K
154K
260K
302K
293K
318K
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Routes

18 destinations · 8 countries
Most destinationsCondor Flugdienst 3Eurowings 3TUI Airways 3Jet2.com 3Smartwings 3Animawings 2

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from KVA. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Kavala International Airport” (revision of 1 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers318K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,312of 3,974 · #284 Europe · #21 GRLongest runway3,001 m9,844 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=1,189of 29,823 · =163 Europe · #11 GRElevation6 m18 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=41,536of 43,341 · =5,596 Europe · #60 GRAgeOpened 19812026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=8,235of 15,079 · =1,234 Europe · #25 GRRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =643 Europe · =6 GR
Scale: 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

3 channels
A/GRDO563.700
APPKAVALA APP122.100
TWRTWR118.400