Aegean Airlines in the network the desk measures
Computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics. The desk holds departure schedules for 571 airports, and for the A3 code that yields 194 city pairs across 126 of them. It is a measured sample of the published timetable and not the whole of it. Frequencies move with the season, and a quote is priced on the flights running the day you ask.
126airports on this carrier
42countries and territories reached
194scheduled city pairs held
540average daily flights across them
The schedule the desk holds carries the A3 code on 194 city pairs, reaching 126 airports in 42 countries and territories. Some of those sectors are flown by Aegean Airlines and some are sold under its code and flown by a partner, which is how the published timetable states it and how a booking has to be read. 90.5 per cent of those airports sit on European time zones, and the next largest block is on Asian time zones.
01The longest sector held for the carrier is Souda (CHQ) to Oulu / Oulunsalo (OUL) at about 3,270 km, and the shortest is Heraklion (HER) to Santorini Island (JTR) at about 121 km. 62.9 per cent of the pairs are under 1,500 km. This is a short sector operator, which for a hand carry out of the Gulf means it is almost always the second leg of the routing rather than the first. The airport that appears most often on those pairs is Athens (ATH), on 110 of them, which is 56.7 per cent of everything held under this code.
02The thickest sector under the code is Larnarca (LCA) to Tel Aviv Yafo (TLV) at about 18.7 movements a day, which across a full day is roughly one every 1.3 hours. On a sector at that cadence a missed departure costs a wait rather than a night. That sector does not touch Athens (ATH), the airport this code is booked through most often, so the desk treats it as a seat sold under the code rather than flown by the carrier, and confirms the operating airline before it quotes. 40 of the 194 pairs run four or more times a day and 77 run once a day or less. The second figure is the one that matters when a consignment leaves the factory late, because on those sectors the desk will quote a different carrier rather than promise an hour it cannot hold. After Athens (ATH) the code leans on Thessaloniki (SKG) on 40, Heraklion (HER) on 21, Rodes Island (RHO) on 19 pairs respectively, and those are the airports a dispatcher looks at second when the first routing is full.
The sectors that carry the A3 code most often
The 16 sectors the A3 code appears on most often, out of 194. Flights a day is the average daily scheduled movement on the busier of the two directions, as held on 2026-09-07. The schedule lists a code against a sector whether the carrier operates it or sells it, so read this as where the code can be booked. Distances are great circle, computed from the published coordinates of the two airports.
How a courier reaches Athens from the Gulf
The schedule the desk holds shows no A3 service into a UAE airport, so a courier does not board this carrier in Dubai. The routing is built the other way round: a Gulf carrier takes the first leg to Athens (ATH), and Aegean Airlines carries the second.
The first leg, measured. These are the 3 links the desk holds from a UAE gateway into Athens (ATH), the airport this code is booked through most often.
Night restrictions on the airports the A3 code uses
A hand carry is bought for the hours it saves, and an airport that will not take a movement after a certain hour can spend those hours back. 15 of the 126 airports this code is booked through carry a restriction the desk holds in writing, checked 2026-09-07. Exemptions and seasonal variations exist, and the desk confirms the position with the airport or the carrier before it books.
- Brussels (BRU), night restrictions. Night movements between 23:00 and 06:00 local are limited by quota and noise rules.
- Paris (CDG), night restrictions. Scheduled movements between midnight and 05:00 local are limited to a fixed annual number of slots.
- Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA), night restrictions. No scheduled take offs or landings between 23:00 and 05:00 local. A late evening departure that slips past 23:00 does not go until morning.
- Munich (MUC), night restrictions. Scheduled movements are limited between 22:00 and 06:00 local, with a core quiet period from midnight to 05:00.
- Zurich (ZRH), night restrictions. Scheduled movements end at 23:00 local, with delayed flights permitted until 23:30. Nothing scheduled before 06:00.
- Hamburg (HAM), night restrictions. No scheduled movements between 23:00 and 06:00 local. Delayed landings are allowed until midnight.
Published lanes that carry the A3 code
The site publishes a page for 346 courier lanes. Aegean Airlines appears in the schedule on one of them, and the one it flies most is Cairo to Athens at about 6.4 movements a day. That overlap is the honest test of whether a carrier is useful to this desk rather than merely famous.
- Cairo to Athens, about 6.4 scheduled flights a day on the busier direction, 1,107 km.
The countries the A3 code opens
Of the 42 countries and territories reached, 23 are reached at a single airport, which for a courier means one airport of entry and a road leg for everything else in that country. The deepest is Greece with 31 airports on this code. The country desk for Greece sets out the customs practice, the working hours and the road legs behind these airports.
Greece (31 airports), Germany (13 airports), Italy (11 airports), Spain (8 airports), France (8 airports), Croatia (3 airports), Finland (3 airports), Poland (3 airports), United Kingdom (3 airports), Cyprus (2 airports).
Where to go next on the A3 network
Each of the 126 airports above has its own atlas entry with the full destination list, and each of the 194 sectors can be opened in the calculator with the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour worked out. Start with the atlas entry for Athens (ATH), the route calculator with Dubai to ATH already filled in, the carrier index for the other 236 airlines the desk lists and the airport atlas itself.
