Air Travel

AEGEAN will establish a regular preventive COVID-19 testing program for its cabin crew and employees.

Ethiopian Airlines, the largest aviation group in Africa, has resumed flights between Addis Ababa and Athens.

The Lufthansa Group is now offering 152 weekly flights to popular destinations in Greece including Athens, Thessaloniki and the Greek islands.

Air France has launched a direct route connecting the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki with Paris in France with three flights per week.

Patra is one step closer to getting its own waterway after the finalization of a 12-year concession deal between the city’s port authority and Patra Port Waterway.

Wizz Air Abu Dhabi, the newest national airline of the United Arab Emirates will launch a route from Abu Dhabi to Athens starting on October 2.

Spanish airline Air Europa will resume its direct route connecting Athens to Madrid as of Thursday, July 16.

The European Commission has approved a 3.4 billion euros Dutch aid measure to KLM to provide urgent liquidity to the company in the context of the Covid-19 outbreak.

The Lufthansa Group has announced a second set of measures as part of its overall restructuring program in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis.

Gulf Air has resumed its direct flights from Bahrain to Greece’s capital Athens, and Cairo in Egypt.

Travelport has announced the extension of its private channel agreement with the Air France KLM group.

Greek authorities may boost Covid-19 testing after thousands of tourists entered the country starting last Wednesday, when Greece re-opened its borders.

Air Transat, Canada’s leisure carrier, has announced that it will restart flights to Athens as of July 27.

International passenger traffic is gradually picking up at Athens Airport, since Greece officially reopened to tourism.

Ryanair has resumed flights to Athens and Thessaloniki after almost four months of keeping them grounded due to COVID-19 restrictions.

More than 230 flights were scheduled to land in Greece on Wednesday, as the country reopens to tourism four months after Covid-19 lockdowns.

Lufthansa will launch services from Munich to the Greek islands of Corfu and Rhodes for the 2020 summer season.

Greece’s regional airports are ready to handle the first incoming flights on July 1, after months of inactivity due to Covid-19.

The Greek island of Kos on June 29 welcomed its first international flight since Greece went into lockdown due to Covid-19.

Emirates is restarting flights to Greece with the resumption of its Athens-Dubai route as of July 15.