CHQ
Chania International Airport
Chania International Airport (IATA: CHQ, ICAO: LGSA) is a large airport in Souda, Crete, Greece. It has one runway, 3,347 m (10,982 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Fraport. In 2025 it handled 4.1 million passengers.
Runways & airfield
Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap11/29111° / 291° · LIT
LENGTH3,347 m10,982 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt
Passengers per year
2014–20252.5M
2.7M
3.0M
3.0M
2.9M
2.9M
712K
1.8M
3.3M
3.6M
3.9M
4.1M
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Routes
68 destinations · 24 countriesYear-round2
ATHAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International AirportGreece · Sky Express (Greece), Aegean Airlines268 km167 miSKGThessaloniki Macedonia International AirportGreece · Sky Express (Greece), Aegean Airlines564 km350 miSeasonal66
ATHAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International AirportGreece · Ryanair268 km167 miRHORhodes International Airport "Diagoras"Greece · Aegean Airlines367 km228 miSKGThessaloniki Macedonia International AirportGreece · Ryanair564 km350 miPFOPaphos International AirportCyprus · Ryanair763 km474 miSOFSofia AirportBulgaria · Ryanair799 km496 miMLAMalta International AirportMalta · Ryanair873 km542 miOTPBucharest Henri Coandă International AirportRomania · Ryanair, Animawings1,019 km633 miNAPNaples International AirportItaly · Ryanair1,046 km650 miTLVBen Gurion International AirportIsrael · Bluebird Airways1,066 km662 miBEGBelgrade Nikola Tesla AirportSerbia · Wizz Air, Air Serbia1,083 km673 miFCORome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International AirportItaly · Ryanair, Wizz Air1,245 km774 miBUDBudapest Liszt Ferenc International AirportHungary · Ryanair1,384 km860 miGRZGraz AirportAustria · Eurowings1,465 km910 miBLQBologna Guglielmo Marconi AirportItaly · Ryanair1,480 km920 miPSAPisa International AirportItaly · Ryanair1,484 km922 miVIEVienna International AirportAustria · Ryanair, Austrian Airlines1,531 km951 miKRKKraków John Paul II International AirportPoland · Ryanair1,656 km1,029 miBGYIl Caravaggio International AirportItaly · Ryanair1,656 km1,029 miNCENice-Côte d'Azur AirportFrance · easyJet1,704 km1,059 miMXPMilan Malpensa International AirportItaly · easyJet, Neos1,714 km1,065 miMUCMunich AirportGermany · Discover Airlines1,750 km1,087 miFMMMemmingen Allgau AirportGermany · Ryanair1,797 km1,117 miPRGVáclav Havel Airport PragueCzechia · Smartwings1,806 km1,122 miWROCopernicus Wrocław AirportPoland · Ryanair1,827 km1,135 miMRSMarseille Provence AirportFrance · Ryanair1,842 km1,145 miZRHZürich AirportSwitzerland · Edelweiss Air1,850 km1,150 miWAWWarsaw Chopin AirportPoland · Wizz Air1,867 km1,160 miWMIWarsaw Modlin AirportPoland · Ryanair1,902 km1,182 miSTRStuttgart AirportGermany · Eurowings1,905 km1,184 miBSLEuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–FreiburgFrance · easyJet1,920 km1,193 miGVAGeneva International AirportSwitzerland · easyJet1,920 km1,193 miLYSLyon Saint-Exupéry AirportFrance · easyJet, Transavia1,960 km1,218 miPOZPoznań-Ławica AirportPoland · Ryanair1,965 km1,221 miFRAFrankfurt Main AirportGermany · Discover Airlines, Condor Flugdienst2,045 km1,271 miBERBerlin Brandenburg AirportGermany · easyJet2,051 km1,274 miHHNFrankfurt-Hahn AirportGermany · Ryanair2,105 km1,308 miLUXLuxembourg-Findel International AirportLuxembourg · Luxair2,137 km1,328 miGDNGdańsk Lech Wałęsa AirportPoland · Ryanair2,141 km1,330 miDUSDüsseldorf AirportGermany · Eurowings2,234 km1,388 miFMOMünster Osnabrück AirportGermany · Condor Flugdienst2,258 km1,403 miNRNWeeze (Niederrhein) AirportGermany · Ryanair2,289 km1,422 miCRLBrussels South Charleroi AirportBelgium · Ryanair2,293 km1,425 miHAMHamburg Helmut Schmidt AirportGermany · Eurowings, Condor Flugdienst2,294 km1,425 miORYParis-Orly AirportFrance · Transavia2,306 km1,433 miBRUBrussels AirportBelgium · Brussels Airlines, TUI fly Belgium2,322 km1,443 miCPHCopenhagen Kastrup AirportDenmark · Scandinavian Airlines2,399 km1,491 miAMSAmsterdam Airport SchipholNetherlands · easyJet, Transavia2,411 km1,498 miOSTOstend-Bruges International AirportBelgium · TUI fly Belgium2,431 km1,511 miNTENantes Atlantique AirportFrance · easyJet2,492 km1,548 miLGWLondon Gatwick AirportUnited Kingdom · TUI Airways, easyJet, British Airways2,603 km1,617 miSTNLondon Stansted AirportUnited Kingdom · Jet2.com, Ryanair2,623 km1,630 miLHRLondon Heathrow AirportUnited Kingdom · British Airways2,638 km1,639 miLTNLondon Luton AirportUnited Kingdom · easyJet, Wizz Air2,657 km1,651 miBOHBournemouth AirportUnited Kingdom · Ryanair2,681 km1,666 miARNStockholm-Arlanda AirportSweden · Ryanair, Scandinavian Airlines2,719 km1,690 miHELHelsinki Vantaa AirportFinland · Finnair2,757 km1,713 miBRSBristol AirportUnited Kingdom · Jet2.com, easyJet2,767 km1,719 miEMAEast Midlands AirportUnited Kingdom · Jet2.com, Ryanair2,770 km1,721 miBHXBirmingham AirportUnited Kingdom · Jet2.com, TUI Airways, Ryanair2,771 km1,722 miLBALeeds Bradford AirportUnited Kingdom · Jet2.com, Ryanair2,854 km1,773 miMANManchester AirportUnited Kingdom · Jet2.com, Ryanair, easyJet2,855 km1,774 miOSLOslo-Gardermoen International AirportNorway · Scandinavian Airlines2,898 km1,801 miNCLNewcastle International AirportUnited Kingdom · Jet2.com, Ryanair2,932 km1,822 miEDIEdinburgh AirportUnited Kingdom · Jet2.com3,077 km1,912 miDUBDublin AirportIreland · Ryanair3,087 km1,918 miGLAGlasgow AirportUnited Kingdom · easyJet3,126 km1,942 miMost destinationsRyanair 32easyJet 13Jet2.com 8Wizz Air 4Eurowings 4Sky Express (Greece) 3
Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from CHQ. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Chania 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
8 channelsA/GCHANIA RDO563.700
APPAPP118.125
GNDGND121.700
MISCRANGER BASE25.240
OPSBASE OPS35.940
PMSVPMSV METRO35.940
POSTBULL PEN27.895
TWRTWR121.100