Best of Athens (4K) - Old Abandoned Ellinikon International Airport

This is the Ellinikon International Airport segment of DIY Layover - Athens (ATH) and the host Charles Huang will visit the Old Athens Airport. Now abandoned and home to an Olympic Airways Museum. The international airport of Athens for 63 years up until 28 March 2001, when it was replaced by the new Athens International Airport (ATH), Eleftherios Venizelos. The grounds of the airport are located 7 kilometres south of Athens and was named after Elliniko, a suburb of Athens. The airport had an official capacity of 11 million passengers per year, but had served 13.5 million passengers during its last year of operations. The airport was built in 1938. Germans invaded Greece in 1941, and Kalamaki Airfield was used as a Luftwaffe air base during the occupation. After World War II, the Greek government allowed the United States to use the airport from 1945 until 1993. Known as Hassani Airport in 1945, it was used by the United States Army Air Forces as early as 1 October 1945, as a base of operations for Air Transport Command flights between Rome, Italy and points in the Middle East. The airport was the base of operations by the Greek national carrier Olympic Airways. The former airport is now the site of a major development for coastal Athens, Hellenikon Metropolitan Park. Beginning in 2020 luxury homes, hotels, a casino, a marina, shops and offices are to be built there

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