Thessaloniki Airport (SKG) Flight Compensation: Northern Greece's Fog-Prone Hub

Thessaloniki's defining aviation challenge is fog. The airport sits on a flat coastal strip where the runway practically touches the gulf waters. During autumn and winter, the temperature differential between the warm sea surface and the cooler land mass generates radiation fog that can blanket the airport for hours — sometimes days.

Unlike mountain fog that tends to lift as the sun heats the terrain, Thermaikos Gulf fog can persist through entire days when conditions are right. The effect is dramatic: visibility drops below the 550-metre threshold required for CAT II approaches, and the airport has limited low-visibility infrastructure compared to major western European hubs.

What this means for compensation: Airlines love to cite fog as an extraordinary circumstance and refuse payment. But there's an important distinction. Thessaloniki fog is a seasonal, predictable phenomenon — it occurs every winter. Airlines that schedule aggressive turnaround times at SKG during November-February without fog contingency plans are not exercising "all reasonable measures." If the fog cleared in the morning but your afternoon flight was still cancelled because the airline's aircraft was stranded elsewhere, that's an operational failure, not extraordinary circumstances.

The Cascade Effect

When fog grounds flights at Thessaloniki, the effects cascade through the day. Aircraft that should have arrived from Munich, London, or Eindhoven in the morning never make it. Those same aircraft were supposed to operate your afternoon departure. By the time the fog lifts and inbound aircraft start arriving, the schedule is hopelessly compromised, and evening flights slip into the next day.

Claim impact: Cascade delays caused by an airline's inability to reposition aircraft are compensable even if the original cause was weather. The airline had the option to pre-position spare aircraft, arrange wet-lease replacements, or re-route passengers through other airports. If it chose not to, the subsequent delay is within its control.

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1. Document everything — Boarding pass, booking confirmation, delay notification, photos of information boards. If the airline cited fog, note whether other flights were departing during the same period.

2. Check eligibility — Enter your flight details in our tool. We cross-reference actual weather data, operational records, and flight tracking information.

3. Submit your claim — Complete the form and we take over.

4. We handle the airline — We present the case, handle correspondence, and escalate as needed.

5. You get paid — Compensation minus our success fee. No win, no fee.

Flight disrupted at Thessaloniki?

• Expert handling of fog-related claim disputes
• No win, no fee — zero financial risk
• We fight airlines that hide behind weather excuses

Check your flight now