Air Travel

Emirates is celebrating the new year and the arrival of its new fleet of Airbus A350s with a global cabin crew recruitment drive.

The Greek islands are among the top destinations for 2024, according to new travel trend research released by Aer Lingus, Ireland’s flag carrier.

AEGEAN recorded another year of growth, welcoming 3.2 million more passengers in 2023 compared to the previous year.

Air Serbia will operate scheduled passenger flights between Belgrade and Mostar, a city in southern Bosnia and Herzegovina, from April to October.

Greece increased its level of application of international standards in aviation from 69.1% to 74.89% compared to global average 69.3%.

Seaplane ports on three Greek islets in the Diapontian Island complex, northwest of Corfu, received approval this week.

Athens International Airport’s new promo campaign merges Emirates’ premium world-class travel with the shopping experience at Hellenic Duty Free Shops.

Travelport is delivering easyJet content to all types of agency customers globally, including online travel agencies (OTAs) for the first time.

Fraport Greece, the operator of the 14 regional airports in Greece, successfully conducted a planned snow clearing exercise at Thessaloniki Airport “Makedonia”.

Air travel is fast approaching full recovery reaching 99.1 percent of pre-pandemic 2019 levels in November 2023.

Foreign carriers are beginning to resume operations to Tel Aviv amid Israel’s war with Palestinian group Hamas.

Draft legislation tabled in Greek parliament paves the way for the listing of Athens International Airport on the Greek stock exchange.

Smartwings is launching regular flights between Prague and Athens, Greece, on May 31.

Modern travel retailing practices will be promoted through Sabre’s distribution agreement with IAG, which includes British Airways, Iberia, Aer Lingus and Vueling.

After the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX-9 incident, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) said operators in Europe remain unaffected.

Aer Lingus, the flag carrier of Ireland, announced a direct route from Dublin to Heraklion on Crete in Greece, taking off in May.

Thirteen oneworld member airlines will contribute operational data to IATA’s CO2 Connect emissions calculator, hence improving the quality and accuracy of the tool.

Athens Airport in 2023 reached a record high with passenger traffic over 28 million, surpassing pre-Covid 2019 levels by some 10%.

Jet2.com and Jet2holidays will add additional flights and holidays from Manchester Airport to Corfu, Crete (Chania and Heraklion) and Kos for summer 2024.

Safety and product rating website AirlineRatings has named Air New Zealand as its safest airline for 2024.