Air Travel

The European Commission adopted an extension to the airport slot relief rules of the 2022 summer scheduling season, running from March 28 until October 29.

Greece managed to extend its tourist season by several months this year achieving a 344.2% increase in traveler flows in November over the same month in 2020.

Austrian Airlines has announced its 2022 summer flight schedule that includes tourism destinations in Greece, Spain and Italy.

Travelport has renewed its well-established alliance with Aeromexico through a value-based, multi-year distribution agreement.

Cyprus Airways has resumed service to Athens and will operate three weekly flights from the Greek capital city to Larnaca.

Dubai-based Emirates Airline is celebrating 25 years since its first flight to Greece in 1996.

Unvaccinated travelers in Greece who have recovered from Covid-19 must have a recovery certificate issued in the last 90 days in order to board domestic flights.

Greek authorities have announced that Covid-19 recovery certificates for entering Greece are now valid for only 90 days.

IATA is calling on governments to follow the World Health Organization’s advice and rescind travel bans introduced in response to the Omicron variant of the coronavirus.

Travelport and Cathay Pacific have extended their long-standing partnership with a renewed and expanded multi-source content distribution agreement.

Cyprus Airways will resume flights to Athens with three weekly flights on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays.

The European Tourism Manifesto alliance is calling on the European Commission to not shorten the validity of the EU Digital COVID Certificate (DCC).

Travelport, a worldwide leader in travel retail, has made a new distribution agreement with International Airlines Group (IAG), one of the world’s largest airline groups.

Greece is now allowing travelers from Mexico to cross its borders and also extended all Covid-19 travel rules for international arrivals.

Ryanair has added two additional routes to Greece’s Summer 2022 schedule that connect the island of Corfu with Ukraine and Croatia.

The European Council has removed Jordan and Namibia from its list of safe third countries for non-essential travel into the EU.

KLM has been awarded with the 2022 World Class Award for its safety and sustainability practices by the Airline Passenger Experience Association (APEX).

Greece and Russia will cooperate in the field of transport through the exchange of knowhow and actions in road, rail, air and marine transport.

Global technology company Travelport has reached a commercial agreement on NDC distribution with Air France-KLM.

Greek authorities have extended all Covid-19 aviation directives concerning flights and arrivals to Greece from abroad until December 3.