LXS — Limnos Airport

Small airport in Lemnos, Greece.
IATA code
LXS
ICAO code
LGLM
Size
small
OurAirports class
Passengers
168,194
2025 · +8.8% on the year before
Nonstop routes
2
With open traffic data
Time zone
UTC+2 / UTC+3
Europe/Athens
Elevation
4 m
13 ft
Runways
1
Longest 3,016 m

Jan–Mar 2026: 20,381 passengers, +12.5% on the same months of 2025 (Eurostat).

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About LXS

Limnos Airport is a small airport serving Lemnos, Greece. It opened in 1959 and is run by Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority. 168,194 passengers used it in 2025. Open traffic data shows 2 nonstop routes from LXS.

Wikidata (CC0) · Eurostat. Sources

Busiest nonstop routes from LXS

Route Distance Passengers / year
LXS → ATH247 km 91,202
LXS → SKG204 km 21,106

Passengers on the route, both directions, over the period of each source: US DOT / BTS T-100 (Aug 2025 – Jul 2026) for routes touching the US, Eurostat (2024) for routes reported by European airports. Routes outside these are not counted.

Airports within 150 km

Code Airport Distance
CKZÇanakkale Airport104 km
AXDAlexandroupoli Democritus Airport121 km
KVAKavala Alexander the Great International Airport122 km
SKUSkiros Airport124 km

Distance from LXS to the major hubs

Route Distance Passengers / year
LXS → LHR2,359 km —
LXS → DXB3,240 km —
LXS → CDG2,057 km —
LXS → FRA1,723 km —
LXS → IST332 km —
LXS → AMS2,085 km —
LXS → JFK7,907 km —
LXS → ATL9,129 km —
LXS → LAX11,017 km —
LXS → SIN8,957 km —
LXS → HND9,302 km —
LXS → DOH2,943 km —

Runways

Runway Length Width Surface
04R/22L3,016 m 45 mAsphalt

OurAirports (public domain). Sources

Location

Limnos Island, North Aegean, Greece · 39.9171, 25.2363

Map (OpenStreetMap) Wikipedia

Questions

Limnos Airport has the IATA code LXS and the ICAO code LGLM. Airlines and tickets use the three-letter IATA code; pilots and air traffic control use the four-letter ICAO code.

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