Aegean services center launched

Aegean Airlines' investment of 140 million euros for the creation of Greece's first Aircraft Maintenance Services Center and Flight Simulator and Crew Training Center reach completion within a year of being launched.

The new facilities are located at Athens International Airport's Olympic Aviation hangar, which had lain unused for at least 12 years and needed a radical reconstruction and upgrade in terms of energy, acquiring photovoltaic panels of 25,000 square meters on its roof.

The management of Aegean held a press tour on Tuesday of the new "green hangar," which is 40 meters high - that is, the height of an 11-story apartment building.

The demanding reconstruction works of Aegean's air hub started in June 2023 and were completed this summer, coinciding with the airline's 25th anniversary. One of the most challenging tasks of the energy upgrade of the old...