The “Eastern” arrived by air “The aunt from Chicago”, Georgia Vassiliadou and Aliki Vougiouklakis with her mustachioed companion from London, in the film “My daughter the socialist”
On May 30, 1962, Konstantinos Karamanlis laid the foundation stone of Hellinikon East Airport – the modern international passenger airport – designed by the famous American-Finnish architect Eero Saarinen.
The inauguration took place like today, in 1969. With the inauguration of the Eastern, the “western” station was left only for domestic flights, with Olympic Airlines.
The “Eastern” was the jewel of Greece and there are shots of it in many Greek films: “The Aunt from Chicago”, Georgia Vassiliadou and Aliki Vougiouklakis with her mustachioed companion from London arrived there by air, in the film “My daughter the socialist”.
Also in 1986 director Menachem Golan used the exterior of the airport to depict a Lebanese terrorist getting out of a taxi in his film The Delta Force.
The last aircraft to depart from Hellinikon airport was an Olympic Airlines Boeing 737 bound for Thessaloniki.
After its closure in 2001, Ellinikos Airport remains closed as the New International Airport “Eleftherios Venizelos” is now the main airport of Athens.
Source: Skai
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