The consortium led by Germany’s Fraport, which recently assumed control of 14 provincial airports around Greece following its successful bid in an international tender, plans to make Thessaloniki’s Macedonia Airport the center-piece of its Greece-based operations.
The airport, the biggest and busiest of the 14 facilities to be managed by Fraport, will reportedly inaugurate the EU-wide airport charges directive at the specific group of airports.
The decision was announced at a meeting between Fraport Greece executives and representatives of 50 airline companies and groupings that use the Thessaloniki airport, which is located to the east of the city.
Fraport promised to implement a harmonized system for charges at the Macedonia Airport and the rest of the 13 facilities.
Top Fraport Greece executives at the meeting included CEO Alexander Zinell, CFO Vangelis Baltas and CTO Bill Fullerton, where a presentation of Fraport’s upgrades to the airport was detailed.
The airport that serves Greece’s second largest urban area, with a population exceeding one million residents in greater Thessaloniki alone, as well as several well-known tourism destinations (Halkidiki prefecture, central Macedonia), is reportedly under-used at present.
