Air Travel

Increasing the number of international flights to Thessaloniki and Makedonia Airport and reaching out to new markets are top priorities for Greece.

Crete’s Heraklion Airport exceeded pre-Covid 2019 passenger levels by 3.5% in 2022 with Chania Airport not far behind.

Ethiopian Airlines announced that the frequency of its flights to Chinese cities will increase as of February, ultimately returning to pre-Covid levels in March.

Delta Air Lines will be the US carrier to officially open non-stop connections from American airports to Greece for 2023.

Greece is among the Top 20 nationalities that travel, according a report released by travel retail research agency m1nd-set in cooperation with IATA and ARC.

The World Health Organization (WHO) is urging governments to re-instate mask-wearing rules on long-haul flights and in high-risk situations.

Greek carriers SKY express and Olympic Air will service 10 state-subsidized air routes to remote destinations in Greece for the next four years.

Athens International Airport expects to see a sharp rise in Chinese arrivals to Greece this year following the launch of Air China’s Athens-Shanghai direct route.

Greek construction firm Intrakat will undertake the upgrade and modernization of Paros Airport in a concession deal valued at 33 million euros.

ITA Airways has announced that tickets for travel on its new direct flights from Rome Fiumicino to Rio de Janeiro are now on sale.

The year 2022 ended with Athens International Airport’s passenger traffic amounting to some 22.7 million passengers, behind 2019 levels by 11.1%.

Improved air traffic figures in November 2022 reflect a growing demand for travel with total traffic up by 41.3% compared to the same month in 2021, says IATA.

Ethiopian Airlines, the largest aviation group in Africa, will launch an additional flight from Athens to Addis Ababa, increasing its frequency to 4 times per week.

The Greek National Tourism Organization (GNTO) has entered agreements with 10 airlines as part of efforts to boost tourism in Greece all year round.

AirlineRatings.com, an airline safety and product rating review website, has released its Top 20 Safest Airlines list for 2023.

World travel and tourism bodies, including airline associations, say EU recommendations to test travelers from China are a step back.

A license for the creation of a seaplane port in Kymi on the island of Evia has been approved, Hellenic Seaplanes recently announced.

Greece will require passengers from China to take preflight Covid test and wear masks on board flights.  

Traffic through Greece’s 14 regional airports exceeded pre-Covid 2019 levels in 2022, handling a total of 31 million passengers.

Traffic across Greece’s airports managed to exceed pre-Covid 2019 levels in 2022, according to a recently published report by Eurocontrol.