Aviation

“Greece is the winner of the summer season,” the program coordinator of travel giant TUI for Austria, Margit Empner, said recently while presenting a report for the 2013 tourism year that ended in late October.

Greek carrier Aegean Airlines said it supports a recent decision of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) that blocked a Turkish Airlines request for a second daily flight to and from Thessaloniki.

The Thessaloniki Hotels Association have expressed their disappointment with the Civil Aviation Authority’s (CAA) recent decision to reject a Turkish Airlines request for a second daily flight to and from Thessaloniki.

In combination with Germanwings, this winter Lufthansa is offering 12,162 weekly flights to 211 destinations in 81 countries.

A new dawn broke for Serbia recently, as the country’s revitalized national airline took to the skies, with new aircraft, new routes and new partnerships setting Air Serbia on the way to its goal of becoming the region’s leading carrier.

Aegean Airlines presented the benefits, arising from the acquisition of Olympic Air, for the company, the passengers, society and Greek tourism.

Greek carrier Aegean Airlines will make a dynamic start in 2014 in terms of its network with a further expansion of international destinations and new routes, the airline’s vice president, Eftychios Vassilakis, said.

Russia looks forward to restarting cooperation and visa talks with the EU under Greece’s upcoming presidency of the bloc, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in Athens on 30 October.

Next spring, Thessaloniki will open to new markets and expand in existing ones. Flights from Amsterdam, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Oslo as of April 2014.

Greek destination Halkidiki recorded a seven percent rise in revenue during the 2013 tourism season from the same period last year, bolstered by a 10 percent increase in overnight stays by German, Russian, Ukrainian, British and Turkish tourists.