Charter Flights from Europe
Here is another strategy that may work for you. Often you can find inexpensive flights to a European city that makes the possiblity of getting to Athens at a great fare look promisinig. But once you start piecing together the rest of the itinerary and add the other airline fares, taxes and in some cases transport between airlines and/or overnight in a hotel- what looked to be a possibility of saving money ended up costing more and became a logistical nightmare.
Regardless, there is the chance that combining a flight to Europe and a charter will work for you. An added plus is that sometimes the charters will sometimes fly directly to the islands allowing you to bypass Athens' Eleftheria airport.
Thomsonfly offers flights from London's Gatwick Airport(and other airports in Britain) directly to Santorini, Chania, Heraklion, Samos, Kos, Rhodes, Skiathos, Kavala, Thessaloniki, Corfu, Preveza, Kefalonia, Zakynthos and Kalamata.
The flights are scheduled during the tourist season(and often are not daily), so you need to pull down the menu for the departure city and date. When you pull down the destination city it will automatically load the cities there are flight to for that day. If you don't see the city try a a day before or after(there are usually at least 3 flights a week so something should show up within a few days of your original departure date).
I would check the flights on the four search engines I have at Finding Air Tickets and then check the flights at Thomasfly. Once you have an idea of the rates and itineraries you can book both sets of flights. I would also consider purchasing travel insurance.
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