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Access to Lefkada

The island of Lefkada (or Lefkas or Levkas) is connected to continental Greece by a free road bridge. In the summer, there are many seasonal flights to Lefkada, or to other airports in the neighborhood. Lefkada is in the middle of the Ionian Islands (Corfu, Kefalonia and Zakynthos)

Map of Lefkada island
By Plane
  1. Preveza airport (Aktio) to 18 km Preveza (PVK) airport
  2. Ioannina airport 130 km.
  3. Corfu airport 1h by boat via Igoumenitsa, then 130 km.
  4. Athens airport 380 km. Seasonal flights Athens to Preveza-Aktio-Lefkada (May till October) by Aegean Airlines
Seasonal flights to Preveza/Aktio (PVK) airport (April to October)
  • Aegean Airlines (Athens)
  • Air Berlin (Düsseldorf, Munich, Stuttgart, Innsbruck)
  • Aegean Air (London-Gatwick)
  • Apollo (Visby Sweden), starting 27 August 2018
  • Austria – Rhomberg via Bulgarian Air Charter (Linz), every Thurday, starting June 4th
  • Austrian Airlines (Innsbruck, Vienna, Graz)
  • Blue Express (Rome-Fiumicino, Milan & Bolognia-Guglielmo Marconi)
  • British Airways (London -Heathrow),every Sunday & Wednesday, starting May 29th
  • Condor (Hannover, Frankfurt and Stuttgart) every Tuesday
  • Danish Air Transport – DAT (Aalborg, Aarhus and Billund)
  • Cyprus Airways (Larnaca) every Wednesday & Saturday, starting July 8th
  • Danish Air Transport – DAT (Aalborg, Aarhus and Billund)
  • Easyjet (London-Gatwick, Bristol, Luton, Manchester, Berlin)
  • Edelweiss Air (Zurich)
  • Finnair (Helsinki)
  • FlyNiki (Vienna, Innsbruck)
  • Holdays Czech Airlines (Prague)
  • Helvetic Airways (Berne)
  • Minoan Air (Athens)
  • Monarch Airlines (London-Gatwick, Manchester, Birmingham)- SUSPENDED!
  • Norwegian Air Shuttle (Oslo-Gardermoen & Gatwick-London every Sunday & Thursday)
  • Novair (Gothenburg-Landvetter,Oslo-Gardermoen,Stockholm-Arlanda)
  • People’s (Vienna), every Tuesday, starting June 4th
  • People’s (St. Gallen), every Thursday, starting May 21st
  • Ryanair (Brussels-South Charleroi, Rome-Ciampino, Budapest-Hungary)
  • Ryanair-Laudamotion (Vienna – every Thursday & Sunday)
  • Sky Express (Corfu, Kefalonia, Sitia-Crete)
  • Sky Work Airlines (Berne)
  • SmartWings (Brno, Ostrava, Prague)
  • Thomas Cook Airlines (London-Gatwick, Manchester)
  • Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia (Oslo-Gardermoen, Helsinki, Copenhagen)
  • Transavia France (Paris)
  • Tui Airways (London-Gatwick, Manchester)
  • Transavia.com (Amsterdam)
  • Tuifly (Nirenberg, Amsterdam, Dusseldorf, Munich, Vienna, Stuttgart, )
  • Volotea (Bari)

SkyScanner.com is also very useful presenting flights from many different cities around Europe .

You can then rent a car by an agent, or speak with a local agent and have your car rental in Preveza airport waiting for you!

Scheduled flights via Athens (ATH)

Then direct flight to Aktio/Preveza (PVK) via Aegean Airlines (since June 2nd – till October 13th, 3 times per week, Tue, Fri, Sun)
or then bus Athens – Lefkada (5 times a day, 4.5 hour trip) from Kifisos Intercity bus Station (KTEL tel. Lefkada bus station :+30 2645 22364).
or rent a car Car Rentals

By car or boat
From Venise port, Ancona, Bari or Brindisi in Italy, then boat to Igoumenitsa (then 130km to Lefkada) . Several daily departurtes all the year long.
Companies:
By bus

Many regular interior lines in Greece – KTEL tel. Lefkada bus station :+30 26450 22364)

  • From Athens
  • From Thessaloniki
  • From Igoumenitsa
  • From Patras
  • From Preveza
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