Greece’s main airport is cramped, overcrowded and devoid of any graces

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Considering Athens airport processes 25 million passengers annually, it’s efficient enough. Just don’t linger if you don’t have to.

The airport is 30 kilometres east of Athens. The metro blue line takes 40 minutes from the city centre and costs €9 , while taxis charge a €40 flat fare and get you there a little faster, providing it isn’t peak hour. The frantic but efficient unloading of yellow taxis is a sight to behold: this is a busy airport.The white colonnade outside the terminal recalls an ancient agora, and fake classical statues, pots of olive trees and Greek flags provide a little local colour.

The airport looks its age at the cramped gates; a good deep clean of carpets is called for.Perplexingly, most of the food is more Italian than Greek. Even the Ergon Greek Deli features the usual international menu, through which you have to hunt to find “Greek cheese” and a Greek salad, plus a selection of peinirli, the open oval-shaped pie better known elsewhere as Turkish pide. Count on €15 for a main.

 

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