Athens International Airport “Eleftherios Venizelos” (Greek: Διεθνής Αερολιμένας Αθηνών “Ελευθέριος Βενιζέλος”, Diethnís Aeroliménas Athinón “Elefthérios Venizélos”) (IATA: ATH, ICAO: LGAV), began operation on 29 March 2001 and is the primary civilian airport that serves the city of Athens and the region of Attica. It is Greece’s busiest airport and it serves as the hub and main base of Aegean Airlines as well as other Greek airlines. The airport is currently in Group 2 of Airports Council International (10-25 million) and as of 2014, Athens International is the 31st busiest airport in Europe.

The airport currently has two terminals, the Main Terminal and the Satellite Terminal accessible by a foot-tunnel from the Main Terminal. It is designed to be extended in a modular approach over the ensuing years in order to accommodate the increase in air travel. These extensions are planned in a six-phase framework. The first (and current) phase allowed the airport to accommodate 16 million passengers per year. However, the airport has been upgraded to handle annual traffic of 21 million passengers without progressing to the next phase thanks to advanced logistics. The sixth phase will allow the airport to accommodate as many as 50 million passengers per year. As such, the current parallel runways have been designed to accommodate flights with equivalent annual traffic of 50 million passengers following the completion of the sixth phase of expansion.

From the Athens international airport you can reach the city of Patras, and subsequently Villa Carlos via road.

In order to reach the city of Patra from the Athens airport with the use of a car or a bus, you have to enter the Attiki Odos (Attica Road), which is the ring road of the capital city of Athens.

Therefore, you continue straight from the airport in the A62 motorway, until you see the exit named “ELEFSINA – ATHINA” and it is also noted that there are “TOLLS” further down that road. You then follow that exit, and you enter the Attiki Odos, as shown in the photo below.

After you enter the Attiki Odos (the European route E94), you pay the tolls, and you continue straight forward to ELEFSINA. After driving for about 50kms (and about half an hour) you reach the area of ELEFSINA where the Attiki Odos ends, and you automatically are driving now in the Olympia Odos (Olympian Road) which is the National Highway going from ELEFSINA to KORINTHOS and then to PATRA.

There, you continue for another 60kms (about half an hour again) in this road, and after you pass the city of KORINTHOS (Corinth) you continue to the rightmost lane of the road, in order to enter then to the part of the Olympia Odos from Corinth to Patra (also named European route E65).

After entering to the part of the Olympia Odos that leads from KORINTHOS to PATRA (the European route E65) you keep driving straight for another 120km until you start seeing the Rio-Antirrio Bridge on the horizon (please mind that there are renovating works in progress taking place to the highway from Kiato to Patras, so drive carefully). When you see the bridge, then that will mean that you will be closing in to the suburb of Agios Vasileios, where Villa Carlos is situated. After passing the last “Toll Posts” (you don’t pay here, you just pass through) you will see the following sign: