Skiathos Airport Reviews

Skiathos Airport ‘Alexandros Papadiamantis’ (IATA: JSI, ICAO: LGSK) is an airport on the island of Skiathos, Greece. Skiathos is a small Greek island in the northwest Aegean Sea. Skiathos is the westernmost island in the Northern Sporades group, east of the Pelion peninsula in Magnesia on the mainland, and west of the island of Skopelos.

The Skiathos Airport 5,341-foot runway is able to accommodate aircraft up to the size of a Boeing 757-200. The runway is characterised as ‘short and narrow’. Because of the uneven terrain on the island of Skiathos, Skiathos Airport was created by reclaiming land from the sea between Skiathos island and the smaller island of Lazareta (a former leper colony) effectively joining the two islands into one larger island.

Skiathos island have the following sites of interest – The Medieval and Byzantine Castle, The Byzantine Church of Christ, Holy Monastery of Evangelistria, Old Monastery of Panaghia Ekonistria, Old Monastery of Panaghia Kechrià, Church of Panaghia Limnià, Church of Tris Ieràrches, The Bourtzi Peninsula, Koukounaries Beach and Papadiamantis House – Museum.