Athens Airport Metro

A new, modern, fast, comfortable, reliable and safe transport mode has been gradually been in operation since January 2000. Today, 23 Metro Stations are in operation at both metro lines: Line 2 SEPOLIA – AGHIOS DIMITRIOS/ALEXANDROS PANAGOULIS (red Line) and Line 3 DOUK.PLAKENTIAS – MONASTIRAKI (blue Line).

The whole Project is divided into:

The Stations of the Base Project: Monastiraki Ethniki Amina & Dafni-Sepolia
The Stations of the First Generation :Ethniki Amina – Doukisis Plakentias, Dafni-Elliniko, Monastiraki-Aigaleo, Sepolia-Anthoupoli
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The two Metro lines serve 650,000 passengers per day. The existing Athens-Piraeus Electric Railway line (Line 1 – ISAP) carries approximately 415 thousand passengers per day. Passengers can perform ‘combined trips’, thus saving plenty of time on a daily basis.

The frequency of trips is every 3 minutes in rush hours and 5 to 10 minutes in non-rush hours. By car in rush hours it takes 35 minutes to drive from ETHNIKI AMYNA to SYNTAGMA, while by Metro it takes only 10 minutes. A similar trip from Dafni to Omonia has been reduced from 35 to 9 minutes. Moreover, using the new dual voltage trains, the distance SYNTAGMA-DOUKISSIS PLAKENTIAS-AIRPORT ia covered in 37 minutes.

– Tickets are sold at the automatic ticket machines installed at all metro stations as well as at the ticket booths.
– Ticket validation should be done before heading the platforms at the validation machines.