Getting in from Athens by air is faster and not prone to sea sickness, compared to ferries. However, in season air tickets sell out well before most of the ferries.
By air
Santorini (Thira) National Airport is an airport in Santorini/Thira, Greece (IATA: JTR, ICAO: LGSR), located north of the village of Kamari. With regular flights from Athens by Olympic Air, Aegean Airlines and AirSea Lines (a seaplane airline). Flight duration from Athens to Santorini is about 30 minutes. During summer, Sky Express connects Santorini with other popular islands such as Crete (Heraklion), Rhodes and Mykonos. During the months of July and August Astra Airlines flies from.
From May till October charter airlines fly directly to Santorini from many European airports.
• Air Berlin flies from Berlin Tegel (TXL), Düsseldorf (DUS) , Hamburg (HAM), Nuremberg (NUE) and Vienna (VIE);
• Condor flies from Dusseldorf (DUS), Stuttgart (STR), Frankfurt (FRA), Munich (MUC), Hamburg (HAM);
• EasyJet flies from London Gatwick (LGW) and Milan Malpensa (MXP);
• Edelweiss Air flies from Zurich (ZRH);
• Germanwings flies from Cologne/Bonn (CGN), Munich (MUC) and Stuttgart (STR);
• Jetairfly flies from Brussels (BRU);
• Meridiana flies from Milan Malpensa (MXP));
• Norwegian flies from Copenhagen (CPH), Oslo (OSL) and Stockholm (ARN);
• ThomasCook flies from London Gatwick (LGW), Manchester (MAN) and Brussels (BRU);
• Thompson flies from Manchester (MAN)
• Transavia flies from Amsterdam (AMS).
From the airport there are buses to Fira, where you can change to buses for other towns. Taxis are also usually waiting
