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The flights to and from the Nikos Kazantzakis airport of Iraklio, Crete, that had been suspended due to maintenance work, restarted on Saturday, the Civil Aviation Authority said.

The first flight took place at 3 p.m.

Passenger traffic at airports around the country jumped to a new record high in 2023, increasing 14% on the year before, the Civil Aviation Authority has said.

A total of 72.6 million passengers used Greece's airports in 2023, compared to 63.7 million in 2022 and 64.2 million in 2019.

London's Gatwick airport has said that it had been forced to cancel more than 160 flights between yesterday and Sunday due to an exceptional shortage of controllers, partly caused by coronavirus infections.

Passenger traffic posted a major increase across the country's airports during the year's first five months, according to data from the Civil Aviation Authority.

The project to provide scheduled flights between the Cyclades and the Dodecanese islands has all but collapsed.

Cycladic planned to connect six Cycladic islands, along with Rhodes and Crete, for this summer, but it will have to limit its activity to charter flights.

A negative coronavirus PCR or rapid test will be required of all air passengers traveling from China until January 31, Greece's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) announced in a notice to airmen (notam) on Monday.

Nepal began a national day of mourning Monday, a day after a plane crashed while attempting to land at a newly opened airport, killing at least 68 of the 72 people aboard. Rescue workers rappelled down a 300-meter (984 feet) gorge to continue the search. Two more bodies have been found Monday morning.

Greece has overtaken Italy this year in terms of holiday preference for UK tourists, with the country coming in second after perennial favorite Spain.

The exploitation of the country's 22 small regional airports is in the pipeline. After the Kalamata airport process, the stage is set for the concession of 22 smaller airports within the next two months. As things seem, at this point, the country's 22 smaller airports will be awarded in a single package.

The new international airport of Heraklion in Crete will be up and running by the end of 2025. The first of the major projects that will upgrade the infrastructure of the island, corresponding to an investment of about 520 million euros, will replace the existing, overburdened "Nikos Kazantzakis" airport.