Kalamata International Airport  Kalamata International Airport () "Captain Vassilis Constantakopoulos" is an airport in the city of Kalamata, Greece. It mainly receives flights during the summer. In March 2013, Aegean Airlines opened a base in the airport. The airport is located between Kalamata and Messini on GR-82 (Pylos – Kalamata – Sparta) and west of the train tracks on the Pamisos River plain. The runway is about 2.7 km long and runs from north to south from the highway north to the plain. The terminal lies to the east and is accessed with GR-7/E55/E65 (Kalamata – Tripoli – Corinth). There is a military base of the Hellenic Air Force and an air-training department to the west of the runway. The air base uses the same runway as civilian aircraft. Kalamata International Airport was opened in 1959. Charter flights began to operate out of the airport in 1986 and a new terminal was built in 1991. The same year Hellenic Civil Aviation took over as operator of the airport. In 2012 the airport was renamed after Vassilis C. Constantakopoulos. The airport has been criticised for the lack of public transport. The only way to reach the airport is by car, taxi or bus. A stop on the adjacent train line to Messini and Kalamata is not operational.