Aviation

Qatar Airways is to join oneworld, adding one of the world’s fastest growing and most highly rated airlines to the world’s leading quality airline alliance, according to an announcement made yesterday, 8 October, at a press conference in New York, US.

International arrivals at Greek airports dropped some 2.5 percent in the first eight months of the year, according to the Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises (SETE).

The national airline of Portugal, TAP Portugal, announced it would stop the Athens-Lisbon direct flights after 26 October 2012.

A tender for the concession of 22 Greek regional airports will be launched by the end of the year, the Greek press reported recently.

The Greek air show Athens Flying Week wrapped up last weekend, 29-30 September, at Tatoi Airfield, but not without offering spectacular performances to spectators.

Yiorgos Maroutsos has been elected president of the Greek Union of Air Travel Agencies (PETAGA).

Greece and the United Arab Emirates on Monday, 1 October, agreed to strengthen their bilateral cooperation in the tourism sector, according to a press release by the Greek Tourism Ministry.

Aegean Airlines has announced the rescheduling of 16 scheduled flight sectors and cancelling of 6 flight sectors that were due to operate tomorrow, Wednesday, 26 September 2012, due to the work suspension of Air Traffic Control Personnel (10:00 – 13:00 local time).

Athens Flying Week, designed to become the major flying event for the city of Athens, will kick off tomorrow, Monday, 24 September, with a conference on aviation issues and a seminar on aerophobia to help people that have a fear of flying and avoid air travel.

Plans to modernize Greek aviation and land passenger transport and overturn obstacles that prevent foreigners from visiting Greece were announced recently by Transport Minister Kostis Hatzidakis.