The first tourists from abroad arrived at Nikos Kazandzakis Airport in Iraklion on March 8. Critics flew from Amsterdam, Paris and Frankfurt, traditionally opening a new tourist season.
Mass flights are expected in early April, and preparations for the meeting of the guests of the island are in full swing – hotels, travel companies and local authorities are being prepared. Surprise of the season-2025-flights on seaplanes.
This month, test flights will take place in the SITI, reports The New Greece publication, and by summer, Crete’s guests will fully appreciate the advantages of the new mode of transport, having gone By air In Hanyu and Kalamat. Then the air-water tracks will connect Crete with neighboring islands. Light -winged “amphibians” have a lot of advantages:
- do not require large spaces for take-off and landing,
- more environmentally friendly than their land analogues,
- The process of landing and ease of passengers is not so long and costly,
- save gasoline and resources,
- They allow you to reach the islands where there are no airports, where there are no airports.
Squares in global practice are usually used in case of emergency situationsbut not only. In Croatia, for example, tourists have long perceived them as a type of public transport.
Before World War II, seaplands were used in Crete. In Elunda, where the refueling station worked, the seaplanes of the British company Imperial Airways were landed (led?), Which followed the London-Elunda-Bombay route. After the war, they were abandoned.
In Greece, seaplanes were spoke about 15 years ago, but bureaucratic obstacles prevented the Canadian company to carry out the developed project. Now the Greeks themselves have taken up the case – Hellenic Seaplanes Sa. So this summer, if everything goes according to plan, they will “connect the sea and the sky” in Crete.
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