“La Triaviata” In The Air: Aegean Airlines Celebrates 15th Birthday With Opera Performance

Those that flew on the Aegean Airlines A3115 flight from Thessaloniki to Athens on 28 May 2014 were speechless when two passengers suddenly rose from their seats and performed “La Triaviata” of Verdi!

The two passengers were tenor Dimitris Paksoglou and soprano Eleni Kelesidi from the National Opera of Greece and their aerial performance was a surprise to passengers on the occasion of the carrier’s 15th birthday.

In celebration of Aegean’s 15 years of travel, various gifts were given to passengers flying on 28 May.

Aegean: 15 years of continuous growth in Greek and international market

Aegean Airlines launched its first commercial flight on 28 May 1999 from Athens to Heraklion and since then provides full service, premium quality, short and medium haul flights.

In 2010 Aegean joined the Star Alliance network, the leading global airline network with the highest number of member airlines, daily flights, destinations and countries flown to.

As a result of the acquisition of Olympic Air on 23 October 2013, Aegean passengers now have increased frequencies and connections to many more Greek and international destinations.

In 2014 the company plans to operate approximately 100,000 flights and offer more than 13 million seats, close to 2.5 million more seats than during 2013. Following the addition of 5 more Airbus A320/321 aircraft the fleet in 2014 is made up of 50 aircraft.

Aegean has a total of 8 aircraft bases, connecting Greece with 87 international destinations in 32 countries as well as flying to 33 domestic airports.

Aegean has been honored with the Skytrax World Airline Award, as the best European regional airline for 2013. It is the fourth time that the company has received this distinction, the previous being in 2012, 2011 and in 2009.