Car hire Athens Airport

medusacarhire offers car hire from Athens airport. Just select the dates and times you would like for your car hire, choose from mini or economy, compact or full size and our car hire booking engine will find you car rental rates to compare.

Cheap car hire Athens airport
Choose between a range of different car models, insurance package deals, and extras that suit your car hire needs and then book online with the best fully inclusive car hire rates from the top car rental companies providing car rental from Athens airport.

Athens airport car hire
Our car hire from Athens airport gives you the flexibility of being able to tour around the city of Athens and Greece at your own leisure. Don’t miss out on any attractions and sites from the city of Athens.

Athens airport
Our local Athens airport offices are based nearby and our car hire can be delivered as requested so if you are on holiday in Athens airport or on business in the city of Athens Greece, you can have complete peace of mind when hiring a car from medusacarhire that it will be there and on time.

Athens International Airport, was officially opened in March 2001, after five years of construction at a total cost of around euro 2.1 billion

The new airport, called Elefterios Venizelos Airport, was necessary to replace the existing, 11 million passenger a year facility at Hellenikon to the south of Athens, which was no longer capable of coping with increasing air traffic. 

The first plans for transferring the airport from the Elliniko to some other location were initiated during the period of dictatorship, a time when Athens started to expand. As a result, the old airport became totally surrounded by everywhere. The idea was kept alive even after the (Political changeover), and notably in 1976 a study was presented to the Greek Government which suggested that the ideal location for a new airport would be Spata. However, as it was the time that Greece entered a period with many internal and external problems, the entire plan was given up.

In the beginning of the 1990’s it was obvious that the Elliniko could not serve the augmented passenger needs for the future - unless it expanded itself. Yet ,as this was not feasible no way, and with the protests rising regarding noise and high danger, the Greek Government finally decided to transfer the airport to an area outside Athens. The location remained the same, and at July 31st 1995, following an international competition, the German company Hochtief was selected for the construction and co-ownership of the airport with the Greek State.