Aviation

As of April 29, Austria’s national airline will offer four additional night flights per week from Vienna to Athens and back.

Airbus surpassed its targets for 2014, with a record number of deliveries, the company said on Tuesday, ahead of the first commercial flight of its new A350 airliner expected this week.

Swiss International Air Lines’ annual passenger numbers exceeded 16 million for the first time last year.

Greece is among the top 10 countries worldwide to have introduced new flights in 2014, according to anna.aero, a weekly e-journal and website devoted to global airline/airport network planning issues.

Safety and product rating website AirlineRatings.com recently announced its top ten safest airlines and top ten safest low cost airlines for 2015 from the 449 it monitors.

Greece’s airports were among Europe’s best performers in November 2014, according to a traffic report released by European airport trade body, ACI Europe.

Indonesian senior officials said on Tuesday that rescue crews have spotted bodies and debris, including suitcases and life vests, in the Karimata Strait off the coast of Borneo, in their search to locate the missing AirAsia flight carrying 162 passengers.

Indonesian rescue authorities said on Monday that the missing AirAsia plane is most likely at the bottom of the sea as the search to locate Indonesia flight QZ8501 carrying 162 passengers continues in a wider area.

It looks like people will “fly” home for Christmas this year as European airlines are predicted to fly more than one million passengers per day to domestic, intra-European or intercontinental destinations, according to the Association of European Airlines (AEA).

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) recently announced an outlook for improved industry profitability in its Economic Performance of the Air Transport Industry report.