{"id":4454,"date":"2025-03-04T10:47:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T10:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/04\/ten-state-owned-airports-certified-to-eu-standards\/"},"modified":"2025-03-04T10:47:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T10:47:48","slug":"ten-state-owned-airports-certified-to-eu-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/04\/ten-state-owned-airports-certified-to-eu-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten state-owned airports certified to EU standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-1263168\">\n    <!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"first-img article_thumbnail_wrapper\" itemscope=\"\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n                                                                    <picture><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Chios_airport-320x200.jpg?v=1736367862\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Chios_airport.jpg?v=1736367862\" alt=\"Ten state-owned airports certified to EU standards\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Chios_airport.jpg?v=1736367862\"\/><br \/>\n                        <\/source><\/picture>\n<p>Chios airport [File photo]<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Ten 10 state-owned airports have been certified according to the standards of the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), a milestone that \u201cconstitutes an important step towards strengthening aviation safety and improving the quality of services to passengers and airlines,\u201d according to the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport.<\/p>\n<p>EU regulations stipulate that all airports serving commercial flights and having an instrument runway length of more than 800 meters must comply with EASA certification standards.<\/p>\n<p>Ten of the 25 airports managed by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) fall into that category, namely Iraklio, Alexandroupoli, Syros, Milos, Ioannina, Kythira, Sitia, Chios, Karpathos and Limnos.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last 12 months, the CAA and the Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority collaborated in the gradual certification of the airports.<\/p>\n<p>In a visit to the CAA to mark the announcement of the certification, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Christos Staikouras said his ministry\u2019s \u201cpriority is to strengthen transport safety.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe completion of the certification of ten airports, which should have been done many years ago, confirms this. 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