Air Travel Qatar Airways Wins Key Awards In Dubai by GTP editing team 1 July 2011 by GTP editing team 1 July 2011 Qatar Airways was honored once again for its Business Class and earned premier accolades at two separate award ceremonies in Dubai. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Air Travel Hotel Chamber Holds Discussion On Low Cost Carriers by GTP editing team 1 July 2011 by GTP editing team 1 July 2011 The Hellenic Chamber of Hotels hosted an open discussion recently and gave tourism professionals the chance to analyze opportunities and challenges posed by low cost carriers in Greece. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Air Travel New Deadline For Kasteli Airport by GTP editing team 1 July 2011 by GTP editing team 1 July 2011 The tendering process aimed at the construction and management of a new airport on Crete, in the Kasteli area, has been postponed for the third time and will now run … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Air Travel Croatia Airlines Launches New Route to Athens by GTP editing team 1 July 2011 by GTP editing team 1 July 2011 Dubrovnik last year had 32.567 arrivals from Greece (75 percent increase from 2009) and 70.697 overnights from Greece (66 percent increase from 2009), according to a presentation on the Croation … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Air Travel Plan For No-Frills Airlines To Fly From Tripoli by GTP editing team 1 July 2011 by GTP editing team 1 July 2011 The possibility of Tripoli’s military airport also operating as a civil airport for low cost carriers was recently approved at the Regional Council of the Peloponnese. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Air Travel Beijing Resumes Flights To Athens by GTP editing team 1 June 2011 by GTP editing team 1 June 2011 Air China launched a new route between Beijing and Athens via Munich on 18 May in an attempt to strengthen ties on tourism and business. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Air Travel Greek Aviation History At Hellinikon by GTP editing team 1 May 2011 by GTP editing team 1 May 2011 The Olympic Airways Workers’ Cultural Center held an event last month and aimed to show the necessity of establishing an Aviation Museum in Greece. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Air Travel New Deadline Set For Kasteli Airport Tender by GTP editing team 1 April 2011 by GTP editing team 1 April 2011 The Transport and Infrastructure Ministry recently announced a second postponement in regards to the awarding of the tender for the construction and management of the new airport on Crete in … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Air Travel Greek Airport Fees Scrapped For Next Nine Months by GTP editing team 1 April 2011 by GTP editing team 1 April 2011 As of this month and until the end of the year all aircraft using Greek airports are exempt from paying landing, takeoff and stopover fees, according to an announcement last … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Air Travel Aegean Airlines Enhances Network by GTP editing team 1 April 2011 by GTP editing team 1 April 2011 Aegean Airlines last month announced its principle growth targets for 2011 that include new destinations abroad, additional frequent flights to major existing destinations and direct connections of Greek regional destinations … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Air Travel Olympic Air To Appeal Merger Rejection, Halts Routes by GTP editing team 1 April 2011 by GTP editing team 1 April 2011 Olympic Air announced last month that together with Aegean Airlines it would appeal against the decision of the European Competition Commission that blocked their plans to merge. The commission had … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Air Travel Etihad Airways Opens New Athens Office by GTP editing team 1 March 2011 by GTP editing team 1 March 2011 Etihad, national airline of the United Arab Emirates, opened a new office in the center of Athens in January. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Air Travel Thessaloniki Included On Ryanair’s Route Map by GTP editing team 1 March 2011 by GTP editing team 1 March 2011 Irish low cost carrier Ryanair will connect Thessaloniki with four European destinations within the framework of its cooperation with the Thessaloniki Tourism Organization, Ryanair’s Sales and Marketing Executive Director Ida … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Air Travel E.U. Bans Olympic Air-Aegean Airlines Merger by GTP editing team 1 March 2011 by GTP editing team 1 March 2011 The European Commission blocked a mega merger plan between Olympic Air and Aegean Airlines last month on the grounds that a monopoly would be created in Greek air travel. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Air Travel Low Cost Carrier Benefits To Greece Discussed by GTP editing team 1 February 2011 by GTP editing team 1 February 2011 “Does Greece’s tourism product benefit from the operation of low cost carriers in the country?” was one of the main questions asked at the “Low cost carriers in the Greek … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Air Travel European Commission Skeptical On Major Airline Merger by GTP editing team 1 February 2011 by GTP editing team 1 February 2011 The European Commission may reject the merger plan between Olympic Air and Aegean Airlines due to competition concerns, press reports said last month. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Air Travel GNTO And AIA Sign Memorandum Of Cooperation by GTP editing team 1 January 2011 by GTP editing team 1 January 2011 The Greek National Tourism Organization (GNTO) and the Athens International Airport (AIA) signed a memorandum of cooperation last month that aims to utilize the potential of air transport, through coordinated … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Air Travel Qatar Airways Celebrates Five Years In Greece by GTP editing team 1 January 2011 by GTP editing team 1 January 2011 “Qatar Airways has made a worldwide phenomenal expansion and impressive growth in the Greek market as in only five years the airline grew from four flights to 14 flights per … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Air Travel Seaplanes To Make A Comeback by GTP editing team 1 December 2010 by GTP editing team 1 December 2010 The Infrastructures, Transports and Networks Ministry announced last month its intention to establish waterways in Greece and attract seaplane companies to strengthen the transport of Greece’s border areas. 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
Air Travel Olympic Air-Aegean Airlines Merger Hit Obstacles by GTP editing team 1 December 2010 by GTP editing team 1 December 2010 The European Commission will decide whether or not to approve the merger between Olympic Air and Aegean Airlines on 12 January 2011, according to European Commissioner for Competition, Joaquin Almunia. … 0 FacebookTwitterLinkedinWhatsappEmail
