Aviation

Air Canada’s international low-cost carrier, rouge, will launch flights to Athens from Toronto and Montreal as of July 2013.

Heathrow Airport announced yesterday, Tuesday, 11 December, that Terminal 2 would be designated as the new home for Star Alliance member carriers.

The European Parliament voted today, Wednesday, 12 December, on proposed measures to help increase the capacity of Europe’s airports, reduce delays and improve the quality of services offered to passengers.

The Association of European Airlines (AEA), the European Regions Airline Association (ERA) and the International Air Carrier Association (IACA) today, Monday, 10 December, called on the European Parliament to increase competition in the ground handling market to benefit operators and increase the quality of services for passengers.

New Greek-Canadian airline SkyGreece is planning to launch a direct flight from Greece to Canada, according to recent reports.

Qatar Airways will launch daily direct flights between Athens and New York next year, the airline’s chief executive officer, Akbar Al Baker, announced yesterday, Wednesday, 28 November, at a media briefing in Athens.

Qatar Airways has introduced a non-stop flight to Tokyo, Japan, de-linking the daily Doha to Tokyo route via the Japanese city of Osaka.

Aegean Airlines has announced that two flights have been cancelled and 12 others rescheduled ahead of a work suspension of Air Traffic Control Personnel (10:00 – 13:00 local time), tomorrow, 6 November 2012.

“Turkish Airlines aims to promote all of Northern Greece,” the director of Turkish Airlines in Thessaloniki, Utku Yazan, said recently after holding talks with key tourism figures in Kozani, Northern Greece.

“We are here and we have come to stay… We are not here just for one season,” the president of Cyprus Airways, Stavros Stavrou, said yesterday, 1 November, in Athens, while presenting the airline’s new domestic routes for Greece.